When things go wrong

By: Luis Linares

     I faced an experience similar to David’s. Every day, we have to face problems whether they are big or small. When doing my practices, I had to deal with some difficulties at the time I was teaching. One day, I was to teach to my students the food times and the names of some food. I had some teaching material ready, and I planned to play a song related to the topic for my students to listen to it. I asked for a CD player to play the song. Unfortunately, the staff did not have a CD player with a USB driver. I had to use a plan B. I played the song on my cellphone, but the audio was not strong enough for the whole class. I did not know what to do; since the song did not sounded, every child started to run around the place making noise and throwing things to the floor. It was time for plan C. I gave the children pages with drawings related to the topic for them to color them. Doing this, I was able to regain the control of the class.