E-PortfolioBy

Carla Mercedes Zayas Zayas

2014

Introduction

This e-portfolio has made to summarize the experiences that

has involved during the practice, taking from the beginning

aspects like studies until now and also to share the

methodology and techniques that it was used to develop the

practices including some activities to perform during the

classes and develop the language and listening skills. This is

a project of portfolio that it has a benefit, supporting the

knowledge of the experiences in teaching, the development

during the practice, the commitment not only with the

institution, but also with the students at the moment to

share/develop the class.

Resume

Carla Mercedes Zayas Zayas. 24 four years old. From 1st to 9th

grade she studied in C.E. Manuela Edelmira Cordova located in

Usulután city from 1997 to 2005; graduated from high school

from 2006 to 2008 in Colegio Cristiano Prf. Justo Gonzalez

Carrazco in Usulután and then in 2009 she started the superior

studies in Capitan General Gerardo Barrios Usulután starting a

technician in English/Spanish and now finishing the Bachelor

Degree in English.

Experiences on teaching

Social Service Conference

A Recognized from C.E Jardines del Rio during the social service. Working with students from 5th to 9th grade she made 500 hours of service.

-First congress of science and Humanities in 2011, the topic was “Humanism and the development of competences; challenges for the 21st century students” where technologies has the main dominant challenge that makes clear how students are going through out with the new technologies, how useful is for teachers to develop easily a topic and make the students interact more with the technology as a tool not only as an entertainment.

Teaching practiceThe work started with 36 students from 11th grade from Instituto

Nacional de Usulután oriented in health, five hours per week, 45 minutes

each class. The practice consisted in to plan every class by using outline,

planning, lesson plan per each class guided by the syllabus and MINED

program.

Students were studying English as a subject but with their background

knowledge it was a lot of problem as pronunciation, miss spelling words,

grammatical rules, etc. but there was a miss understanding while they

describe something or someone. From the 36 students, 8 of them were

making mistakes with syntax or the order of word at the time to describe;

showing them several examples (several explanations in Spanish), group

work(couples, threesome, etc.); face to face exercises and funny videos

to catch their attention easily helped a lot to them to understand the

order of adjectives in English.

Teaching Methodology

The methodology I used:

The communicative approach of teaching English that is a method that

overtook older and more traditional methods such as the grammar-

translation method.

Audio-lingual method Communicative Language

Language immersion Direct Method

Teaching Philosophy “Many philosophers enjoy the challenge of motivating students to rethink parochial opinions they have absorbed while growing up.” (Bayer, 2009)

Typically the statement of teaching philosophy should be a brief

statement about your views in relation to your assumptions, attitudes

and expectations toward your responsibilities and obligations as a

teacher and how this impacts on your approach to teaching.

I´m didn’t teach only my point of view about English, I wanted to

share what I have learned, how I learned it, why they should try to find

their purpose for learn this not only as a subject but also as a tool in

daily life.

Instruments←Expositions: the direct method

Songs: Audio-lingual method→

Works in pairs, groups: Grammar Translation Method →

Conclusion

The experiences or the process in teaching with the different

types of work has done, the short terms was successfully

achieved in order to the plan of 40 hours. The degree in English

is oriented for the education, it means that the worked or the

practice done has taken the part of share, communicate and

change my mind into a better teacher, more than that, to

change the behavior and try to make more enjoyable the

learning process of this “subject”, but also to improve my skills

as a teacher and a guider.