intervention point

My intervention point: management of unexpected events

Journal entry 1

Another thing that I have to foresee is the time. I could not do the lesson completely because there was a change in the schedule time, so I had to improvise some things in order to fit the lesson in the time given.

Even though my lesson was planned based on my knowledge and experience, I realized that there is always something which may slip your mind and threat you with destroy your lesson

Journal entry 2

First of all, I had to teach this lesson with these students after they had an unusual long break which offered to the students some games and activities carried out by some external personnel. When the students entered to the classroom they were still too active and wanted to keep playing

Then, I came to the conclusion that I wasn’t prepared for catching students’ attention after an event like that. I was just thinking on completing the activity without taking into account that they are just kids and their level of concentration is not easy to handle

Journal entry 3

Then, after explaining the activity to the students they were bored trying to do an activity which was kind of traditional and similar to one we had already done in the previous lesson. So, I decided to change the activity at that moment in order to not to let the activity fails

Journal entry 4

Today’s lesson was very difficult and I couldn’t achieve the objectives desired for this class which was really important to me. First of all, when I arrived to the school I was told that the students were only having 3 hours of lessons because they had a special event of love and friendship celebration. So, students had the opportunity to go to the school without the regular school uniform. Besides, they were in charge of everything related to the meeting. As a result, most of the students were very excited about the party and the central topic for them was obviously the party.

To solve this problem I would come up with the following course of action:

First of all, I have to plan my lessons based not only on my teaching and pedagogical objectives but bearing in mind the school and students extra-curricular activities which are part of the school program anyway. Besides, to create extra ideas or plans beforehand give me different ways of solving different issues in the classroom.

Finally, to reflect critically on all these issues is another key element for solving these kinds of problems. This is said because reflection gives us tools for analyzing what went wrong at some point and learn from it. That is why this method may increase my awareness of possible problems which may occur at any moment. As a result, the possibilities to get frustrated or frustrate my students with these unexpected issues would be less possible to happen.