I had the
opportunity to do my social hours in a public school. I could see that there
was no material or resources to teach English. As we know it is necessary to
have materials so that students can learn. But the school and the teacher did
not have these materials. Teaching English was based only by providing some vocabulary,
the teacher did not use any material or visual aid in order to enhance the
students learning. Also we know that a variety of activities during classes are really important because these
activities can help the students to develop their skills, but the teacher could
not develop these helpful activities, for example; she could not develop an
activity in which students could develop
their listening skill because there were not a tape recorded.
Students from
public schools are not able to develop their listening, speaking, writing
reading skills because there are not any resources to develop activities in
which they can put into practice what they learn. So I consider that this
situation also makes classes boring because students are only writing on their
notebooks. As we know students need activities so that they will not get bored,
they need to have an active participation in the class. This situation is in a certain way
understandable because we know that the government does not give or provide the
necessary tools to teach, but we as teacher can make the difference by using
some material that is very helpful and very common to use. So is very important
to have these tools in order to have an effective learning. We as teacher can use our creativity in order
to get materials to teach, for example; we can use recycle paper so that we can
create something that can benefit the students learning. this situation affects the whole learning process because sometimes when they want to implement a new methodology it is necesary to have a variety of resources to develop all the activities involved in the methodology.With this opportunity that I had I could see the reality at the time to teach because is very different being at the classroom talking about all this things than being in a classroom teaching.