Pedagogical events and reflections

Reflection Nº1

A. Observation stage.

The artifacts is a PDF document :

• http://www.revista.unam.mx/vol.10/num11/art71/art71.pdf

The present artifact represent the importance of the affectivity inside the classroom and its relationship with the process of learning. I choose it because of an specific situation during my period of Vise II and because I believe that now a days is one of the most important areas inside of a classroom

Class situation

During a class, the students needed to write a personal story using the time expressions already seen in previous classes, at first they did not wanted to do it, they found it boring. I thought "the activity might not work". My guide teacher suddenly asked one student: "tell me something that had really marked your life" ,"something that really matters to you" because "that is what I want you to write about". The student start telling his most significance experience and suddenly there was silence in the class, everyone was listen to what he was saying and as he finished another student started telling his anecdote or story. I could see what the teacher wanted to created inside the classroom. After a few more situations they started to do the activity and enthusiastically started to asked me some specific words to complete their task.
My guide teacher always talked to them nicely and kindly in order to make them feel that she really cares about them and not only as a student but as a person.

The situation made me reflect about the importance in affectively and the importance in how you treat the students, if you are nice and treat them with love, respect and they feel like they are in a reliable place where they can express themselves they will learn better and more enthusiastically .Until this moment I would never thought it would be that important. I think that this experience has made me grow as a teacher, it made thought me that we should be affectionate inside the classroom to created a positive and interactive ambient to them to develop their habitability. That was the main idea. As a future teacher this will be one of the main things to consider inside my classroom because of his importance and the connection that it has to the learning abilities of the children.