NINTH TASK - JOURNAL 3


This week was kind of different because most of the students did have an excellent behavior in each class. I do not know the reason, if it was the topic or they realized that this work that I’m doing is for them. I’m saying this because I did a quiz in which learns had to translate some personal qualities in English to Spanish and Spanish to English and the results surprised me. A little percentage of both classrooms failed this quiz but the ones who passed, did it with high grades.
Besides that, this week I did not have any problem with any kid, I did not put negative points and it was not necessary to call their parents. About the main topic for this week, I believe kids did like it due to the fact that they were always asking for more examples and they looked for some meanings in their dictionaries.
One thing that implemented this week was giving extra points as reward of taking their dictionaries to the class. This is how students had a good performance when they wanted to know the translation of a word or its meaning. But not everything is good, I noticed that some students still have in their minds that the teacher must help them in each thing they have to do for instance, when they were doing the quiz, they called me just to know what to do after I explained  like three times. As a result, I just explained one time with one example and they had to do the same thing.

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