During the first week of my Practicum at IES Joan d’Àustria we were introduced to the students we were going to teach and we started to get familiar with them. This year our tutor teaches 4t. d’ESO, 2n. de Batxillerat and a “crèdit variable” with 1r. ESO students, but we agreed that we were going to spend more time with the students of 4t.ESO, since we could meet only one hour with the other groups.
This group of 4t.ESO is made up of 25 students. A third part are boys and what is more surprising is that most of them come from other countries. That is to say that we have students who have not long ago arrived from Ecuador, Peru, Cuba, China, Brazil, etc… and it makes the class a melting pot of different cultures, but a bit difficult one because, leaving aside that they first need to adapt to living here and to Catalonia's education system, they all have very varied levels of English and some have very little knowledge of this language. From my point of view, I would say that the majority of the students have a very low level.
To tell you the truth, the very first day I saw how a 4t.ESO class was, I got a bit scared and felt that all what Oriol told us during the CAP lessons about his students and his classroom management wasn't this way here. It seemed that no one was interested in learning English and students hardly listened to her teacher. That would make our task more difficult but more challenging at the same time.
During those days, we sat at the back and tried to observe everything. Not only how the classes were organized and what kind of activities were carried out, but also the teacher's and the students' attitude, and of course, we tried to keep an eye on everything that was going on in the corridors.
This group of 4t.ESO is made up of 25 students. A third part are boys and what is more surprising is that most of them come from other countries. That is to say that we have students who have not long ago arrived from Ecuador, Peru, Cuba, China, Brazil, etc… and it makes the class a melting pot of different cultures, but a bit difficult one because, leaving aside that they first need to adapt to living here and to Catalonia's education system, they all have very varied levels of English and some have very little knowledge of this language. From my point of view, I would say that the majority of the students have a very low level.
To tell you the truth, the very first day I saw how a 4t.ESO class was, I got a bit scared and felt that all what Oriol told us during the CAP lessons about his students and his classroom management wasn't this way here. It seemed that no one was interested in learning English and students hardly listened to her teacher. That would make our task more difficult but more challenging at the same time.
During those days, we sat at the back and tried to observe everything. Not only how the classes were organized and what kind of activities were carried out, but also the teacher's and the students' attitude, and of course, we tried to keep an eye on everything that was going on in the corridors.
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