Observation Stage
Observation Stage
Observation Stage
FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES
EARLY ENGLISH TEACHING PRACTICE
2009
OBSERVATION STAGE
Refer to the general background of the school in a clear and brief way. Describe:
Physical location
The name of the school I am attending to is “Liceo Ovispo Antonio Castro” which is
located in Crucero Ajak Street N 18, Cerro Cárcel.
Organisation
Principal: Mr. José Luis Villanueva,
UTP Department: Mrs. Ximena Espinoza
General inspector: Mr. Juan Carlos Astorga
Orientation Department: Mrs. Karen Marín.
Student population
There are 178 students enrolled on the school.
School rules.
The students are not allowed to smoke, to drink alcohol, to consume drugs, to sell or to
buy any kind of goods inside the school. They musn´t use mobile phones or any kind of
device which implies using headphones.
Classroom equipment.
There is a laboratory room in the school, where students are able to use the computers
on their breaks but any of the days I have attended to they had being there. Therefore
the only available equipment for the english class is a dictionary “english-spanish” that
it is found in the library.
Classroom routine
The teacher develop her classes in spanish all the time, she always give general
instructions about the taks and the students make the exercises given afterwards. She
asks the students to create a lot of dialogues which must being made in formal and
informal style.
I do not see a strong motivation in students when they are in class. I have talked to a
few of them and they have the knowledge that english is important, as a matter of fact
they have told me that they want to make an english course after graduation, however
they do not pay attention in class. Actually, the majority of students use headphones
when it is time to develope the exersices guide.
Since the second class I started helping them on their own desks and some of them
seemed to pay interest and attetions to the tasks. I can see that they tried to make a lot of
effort in understanding english forms, but unfortunately they represent the minority in
comparison to the rest of the class.
Some of them try the teacher do the work for them, sometimes they called me and want
me to do the exercises for them. But at least they have an interest for learning, the
students I am worrying about are those who never ask for help and they just stay there
lookink at the front, talking between them and making jokes.
They are used to do dialogues, therefore they have to work in pairs or trios, although
most of the time they demonstrate lack of interest in front of the activity . What I want
to mean about this is that they devote that time to listening to music or talk between
them instead of creating or rehearingl the dialogue.
What kinds of learning activities do the students like the most? What do they like the
least?
I have no knowledge of the kind of learning activities students like the most as a group,
but I have talked to small groups and a student named Marfil who likes english very
much told me that he would like to learn english performing scenes because he thinks
theatre should help them to loose their fear to english. According to what I have seen as
a group and what I have being told by individual students, what they like the least is to
develop exercises guide, they found them very boring.