When things go wrong

By: David Jimenez

     When I started teaching, I knew there would be some trouble. Everything started very normal; the children behaved well, and they listened to every word I said. One day, I was asking some questions to each child, and out of nowhere, a kid started to scream every time someone answered my questions. At first, I did not make a big deal of it, but the kid's scream were getting louder and louder. I had to do something. I took him and his desk to the front of the classroom for him to be separated from his classmates. When I finshed asking to the other kids, I came to the little trouble maker and asked him to answer every question I asked to his classmates.  I think that worked; after he finished answering all the questions, he started to behave well. At the end, the class ran normally, and I could finished the lesson I had planned.

     When you want to use digital resources, make sure they will work. One day, I wanted to play a song related to sea animals to make the class more active. I had downloaded a song the previous night, and I was very excited to play it. I thought the school had a music player with an USB bus driver. Turns out they did have a music player, but it did not work with USB. I decided to play the song directly from my cellphone, but it did not work; the volume of my cellphone was not high enough for children to listen to the song.  At the end, I could play the song, so I had to do another activity realted to the topic I was teaching.