Introduction

Introduction 

 My name is Raúl Montoya. I am 26 years old, and I am majoring in English teaching at Universidad Don Bosco, El Salvador. I am part of the course called Teaching Practicum I in which my partners and I teach English classes to children of the ages of 6 to 9.

 My objective for this class is: “By the end f the semester I will be able to understand children´s behavior and achievements by applying teaching techniques and activities that work better in the process of learning.”

I am going to tell you some events that have had an important role in my personal growth. When I was in 8 grades, I had the first contact with English subject, and was a really nice experience because I had a U.S. teacher, so we enjoyed the class with him. Then in 9 grades I took the English subject, but I did not learn as well as I expected. However, when I was in high school I learned more, and I got the idea of studying English, but I did not. When I was studying Systems Engineering Technician at ITCA-FEPADE, I was living in a boarding school, there I had the opportunity to teach Computation and English in free courses to children, it was really exciting, and also it helped me to take the decision to studying teaching at the University, apart from which, I love teaching.

 The last year (2012) three partners and I had the opportunity to give a free course as part of the social hours in “ Instituto Nacional de San Pedro Perulapan” it was really interesting and helped me to put in practice in the real school what I have been learning through these years at the University, preparing classes, activities were a challenge for me, due to the fact that was my first time giving classes in a public school and high school students. However, at the end, it helped me to learn many things such as: monitor students in the class, search strategies when they are a little shy to participate in activities, develop activities according to teaching materials, prepare exams, oral presentations, and also helped me to improve my skills in English, due to the fact that I had to prepare before giving the class.

 Now, I am very interesting to learn more strategies, and activities to prepare the class, and how to handle a group of children in a real class, so I am sure that at the end of this semester I will be ready.