Reflect on the main things you have learned about teaching and how these relate to your understanding of the profession and the values that guide your work.

One of the principle things that I learnt in this process of teaching is that planning does not guarantee nothing. I can plan everything in my PPP or TBL, but sometimes circumstances change and I have to make decisions. A very important feature that I have to memorize by heart is why I want to teach English, that is the clue for me every time that I think that is a difficult process, and also why my students are learning a new language.

Motivation is a matter of concern, and not just for students, for me too. When teachers are planning they should think in what motivation is and how students can feel it. Students can really appreciate what we do at the moment of teaching or if we pay attention in what they want. This will mean everything for them.

Students never know what they should know. I never should start a new content if I do not what my students know about the content and general. I can start teaching new concepts or content even if this is compulsory. Students belong to different contexts and they have different bases related to this new language. Some of them have a really good level of English, and some of them not. Is my responsibility that every student can understand what they are going to learn, and if is necessarily I need to stop and make a review or tutorials if I think that is correct. The main purpose of teaching this language is communication, and learners should know everything, in this way they can figure out the ability of knowing English and the advantage of communicate to other people around the world. They have to be able to communicate in English at the end of each process of learning.

Describe one or two areas of professional growth (e.g. instructional strategies, content knowledge).

This process of observation and teaching mean experience for me. Even taking into account that I was teaching in a “bubble”, because everything was ready for me and I was allowed to use every material that classroom in the university has.

Every moment when I was teaching was meaningfully for the rest of my career. How to teach, when I need to pay attention, how to give instructions, taking into account the context or the idea that students are not interested in learning are subjects of matters.

Experience is the most valuable resource that teachers have, and now I started to learn different movements and situations that occur in the

classroom. During my career the only thing that I am going to have permanently is what I really know, what I memorized by heart and how things that I learnt are helping me to improve my teacher’s skills. That is the reason why I really appreciate this moment of growing in my professional area.