Class management and atmosphere By: David Jimenez 

     During my teaching practice, I had the opportunity to work with a group of 9 children. All of them had their own abillities to learn though just few of them had the eagerness of learning English. I had the chance to create a good rapport with all of the children. What helped me create a good rapport was the classroom atmosphere. The classroom was well adecuated to the teaching; it was big enough to host children, it the desks were arranged in a semicircle shape. 

     My personal teaching style is to show directly the contents to the chlidren using flash cards. I think it is a good way of teaching because you expose children to the vocabulary you want them to learn using real images. However, I think that method would work better depending on the level we are teaching. In my case, the method work, but if I go to another level, such as high school, I will need another method beside flash cards. I consider that we need to learn and develop teaching different teaching styles and adapt them to our own style.

     My personal goal is to teach English in a way in which students feel confortable and not overwhelmed. We all know English can be a difficult language to learn, but we can try teaching it in ways that children will enjoy. We just need to keep going, and never give up on our goal to becaome good teachers.