First Journal

September 24th, 2019

First journal

This was the first session of my thesis pedagogical intervention, the class started at 7: 10 a.m. I was excited because the main purpose of the class was to “create an atmosphere and motivation about the project”. However, I started getting anxiety because some students got late at the class and after they came I could not start the lesson. Later on, I explained what they were going to do in the first cycle. Unfortunately, they were not sufficiently engaged at the beginning of the class. A student was talking to a peer and it was a situation that disrupts the class. I called those students´ attention. After that, a student was a little angry. Then, in the next step of the lesson they had to tell incorrect practices carried out in the school. In that stage, almost all the students were engaged with the brainstorm. After that activity, students had to choose a classmate to work in the project, most of the students quickly chose the peer. Nerveless, they were four students disagree about the activity. After these two activities carried out in the class, I came up with the conclusion that there were four students with misbehaviors and most of the students were engaged in the activities, so I decided for the next lesson to be more dynamic and have some plan B.

After they decided the peer they were going to work, three of the students asked for clarifications of the meaning of the incorrect practices, that made me think that they were interested in the project and about the tasks they would carry out. Later on that activity the class ended.

After the class finished I was reflecting about that lesson as I didn’t feel comfortable at all. I was thinking that the embraced situation with the two guys at the beginning maybe was not the better way to give a solution as I decided to ignore that student behavior. However, in the next class, there was a rubric to assess students and I decided to talk to him alone, and I advise him about that situation of what he agreed, and he told me to change the behavior, after that, I felt more successful about my teaching.