About Myself

Welcome to my Teaching Practice blog.

Hi everyone. My name is José Eduardo Escobar Vásquez. I am 23 years old. I am a student of languages with Teaching English option at Universidad Don Bosco. In my free time I like to watch movies or to play soccer. Also, I enjoy listening to music. I could say that I do not have a favorite music genre. I like all kind of music.

I really like English language and that is the reason why I am studying this major. I want to be a good teacher. I want to help people to learn this interesting and really important language.

My impression in this class was a little bit weird maybe because I had never thought about teaching English to children before. So, it was a kind of surprisingly the idea of thinking about teaching methods for kids around 9 to 11 years old.

I have experienced teaching to kids at church, but I think that it is not the same situation as teaching English. When you teach at church the methodology that you use is a lot different because most of the time you are talking to them and they just give some comments about what you are talking.

We know that if you are teaching English students need to get more involved with what you are teaching. They need to repeat. They need to clarify the meaning of words. They need to memorize some things. I expect for the end of this course to know different techniques that would be useful for teaching children. We know that children have more energy than adult. Also, they tend to get distracted easily. Those are things that we have to take into account in order to get the best of our students.

We have to know different strategies that we could use with our children. In this stage they have the facility to learn a lot of things. We as teacher should know how to take advantage of this.