Name: Julio Alberto Aguilar Calderón
Birth: August 23th, 1989
Age: 23 years old
Address: Candelaria de la Frontera, Santa Ana
Who I am?
I am a person, who likes to learn many things in all the aspects that I enjoy the most when I am acquiring experiences.
I feel comfortable when I start to do something that I consider it will be a fundamental piece in my labor life in the future as teacher. I am very humble with people and patient at the moment of acting in front of a problem or challenge that I have to overcome. I always look for the correct alternatives in life.
Didactics classes
Didactics class involved many topics which help us to learn more about teach. At the beginning of the subject, the teacher gave us like a guide of how to manage an interactive class in which our students could learn better about the second language.
In Didactics class, we developed different activities in different group work, and when we finished the topic the teacher told us all the mistakes that we did and how can we try to better in the next activity.
Didactics of the English II was a subject which helps us in the teaching area.
I consider I could acquire new knowledge in the teaching practice with teenagers in junior high around the ages among thirteen to fifteen years old.
My teaching experience
I began teaching young teenagers in Centro Escolar Cantón La Arenera in junior high in order to acquire more experience, and also I could interact with teenagers at the ages among thirteen to fifteen years old. It was a challenge because I had to notice every aspect in every one of them, for example if they are not paying attention. I had to get familiar with them and make them participate in almost all the activities that I developed.
Another aspect that I had to manage was to keep the line between teacher and students but understanding all the needs they have at that age.
In the last class that I gave them a feedback of all the topics developed in the class. Everybody were sad when I told them that it was my last class because they told me my classes were more dynamic than their English teacher were. I felt so satisfy with the result of their acquisition knowledge because they absorbed everything I gave them.
Teaching experience
Many expectations are waiting for us when we began teaching young children at the ages from twelve to fifteen years old because it is a stage in which children are acquiring knowledge and that knowledge in one part should be shared by us, teachers. But, what can we expect at the very end of the classes that we gave them?
My experience as teacher involved many objectives by myself because I understood that it was my opportunity to act like someone who has responsibilities in order to teach young teenagers.
When I made the activities whit the students I could notice that nobody had the same way to learn but I was trying to get their attention and they could participate in all the activities.
At the end of the last class, I gave them a test about all the topics I developed in classes. That test was by my own expectative about how much they could learn of my teaching practice, and then I checked the tests and most of the students learnt something in structures and speaking with sentences in the correct way.
Teaching philosophy
Students feel comfortable when they feel that the atmosphere in which they are learning has a new vocabulary that is familiar with them. They don´t care about the mistakes they have at the moment of an activity because the teacher must show respect to the students and students to each other too.
Respect, atmosphere, and the way in how a topic must be developed are essential parts that a teacher must learn at the moment to teach.
