2nd Journal Entry

Hans Humberto Oviedo Gómez

Reflective Teaching Course

M. A. Edgar Alirio Insuasty

Neiva, September 30^th, 2015

Reflecting upon my Lesson Plan Intervention # 2

As mentioned in the first journal, this workshop was designed to be developed in three different but continuum sessions, moving from general concepts and vocabulary related to the topic to the possibility to perform, state positions and argue by giving supports.

For the second session, the main goals were to analyze the causes and effects of abortion in relation to real cases and, to perform what would happen in any of the scenes given. These objectives were partially achieved. Students were working hard but unfortunately the time was not enough.

Acting out

In practice, in this second session instructions were clearer than the first session and I tried to be sure my students understood what I needed them to understand. The activities were interesting to them, they liked to perform in spite of the short time for preparing. The language used was clear for the students and they were very active at participating and giving their ideas by supporting them. The activities were challenging but not difficult.

In this opportunity, I tried to correct the things I had to improve from the previous lesson. In the second lesson the language used and the participation increased notably. Time was one of the points that affect the development of the whole class. Students did not have enough time to prepare and develop well organized scripts and there was one group missing to perform.

In this opportunity, the biggest trouble I had was related to time. What I have to improve if I teach this lesson in the future is being aware of the time and provide them with an “extra minute” to organize their performances in a proper way. Students did not have enough time to be prepared and there was one group missing.