Hello everyone!
This is my first week in the new school for my PRACTICUM 3!! I am so excited this is my first time following the English Teacher :)
I am enjoying it and I am sure I will learn a lot from this experience.
Here you have this beautiful picture with the perfect quote for the moment.
I hope I will learn a looot and here you have my statement of intentions, it's a bit long but and it doesn't look like a blog post, but it was the first task.
Adriana
Statement of
intentions
The next practicum period is just
around the corner, with it we all should ask ourselves what we do expect to
achieve with this new time in the school. Even this is always a moment we
expect to arrive impatiently and illusion, we should do this retro inspection,
to help us to get as much as we can during this month.
The two schools where I did my practicum 1 and 2
were very different. In the first one I went to Menendez Pidal in l’Hospitalet
and for the second one I went to Costa i Llobera in Sarrià. Obviously the areas
where they are located are very different and one of my objectives in the last
practicum was to observe the differences between the two realities. The school
Can Vidalet is pretty similar to Menendez Pidal, it is located in Esplugues.
The area is almost the same and also the kind of students. I would like to see
if they work the same way or not, and I will try to keep track of everything,
so I will be able to think about it during the weekends and not do all the big
work of reflection at the end.
I am very excited to follow the
English teacher during her daily life in the school. Even more, when the school
told me that the English teacher teaches in pre-scholar too. I studied to be
kindergarten teacher before this degree and I miss the little ones a lot.
At the moment the school has a substitute
teacher for English, I don’t know the reasons yet but I am wondering if the
substitute knows the students already and also how are they going to do my
assessment. I am glad I would be able to speak to her, because probably I would
start as a susbtutute.
It is very important to me that the school gives
importance to the languages, in this globalized world we won’t go anywhere
without being fluent at least in three languages. In fact, last year I decided
to start studying Swedish, because I found a very interesting school there
called Vittra Skolan. Most of my friends keep asking why I did choose Swedish.
Now that I love the language and the culture I don’t think I could have done a
better election. Even if I never move to Sweden I think that the more number of
languages that you speak the better. It helps you to understand better with
people from around the world and picking up new languages becomes easier.
Languages open us doors not only professionally,
they also teach us about cultures, they allow us to know more people and to share
our experiences, etc.
The company that I work for in the summer,
called Education First is Swedish and with them I have learned many values
about learning new languages. Their business is the language travel, not only
for teenagers in the summer that is my sector. They also offer all kind of
trips and courses for people from 8 to adults.
Sometimes it is hard to see my future as an
English teacher in a public school, with the social situation we are living
right now, I thought and sometimes still think I would have to go to another
country in order to find a good job. With this third practicum I would like to
come back to my origins and remember why I did started this degree in the first
place.
The only weakness I feel for this time, is that
I work Monday to Friday tutoring students from 5 to 16 years old and Saturday and
Sunday in a coffee shop, where I finish at 11:30 pm. That makes me be very
tired, but I will make everything I can to be over this situation.
This is going to be the only practice period in
which we will follow the English teacher, in fact, it is going to be the very
first time seeing what we want to do and also to do our interventions in the
subject we want. I won’t lose out on the opportunity and I will try to do my
best and learn as much as I can everyday of this month.
To do all this I will start going to the school
with a smile and a very positive attitude, trying to collaborate, wanting to
learn and tasting each little moment that this experience is going to offer me.
