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profe: aparte del class profile.. no me habia dado cuenta de que un problema no me lo revisó, y las observaciones de mi tutor, solo es poco.....

**CONTEX** I worked at “Venustiano Carranza” Middle school which is located in 25 poniente esquina 17 sur s/n, Colonia Volcanes. . To the north adjoin with “Santiago´s neirborhood”. To the east adjoin with “San Miguel” neirborhood. To the south adjoin with “Agua azul´s” neirborhood. To the north there are the “ninfas’” park and the kindergarten “Hermanos Serdán”. To the east there are a lot of stores and buildings that supply basic necessities of the people around there. To the west there are “La Comision federal de Electricidad” and the university hospital, (one of the principal in the state). Finally, to the south there is the college of medicine and dentistry. Venustiano Carranza´s school was the first secondary school in the city. it was born in the period of Goverment of general “Maximino Ávila Camacho on march, 1st 1935. Initially, it worked in “Avenida Juárez” 1301. Nowadays is the music conservatory. it started with just 200 students. Later it was named “Secundaria Oficial Socialista Venustiano Carranza” with Principal Dr. Manuel Caro Manzano. The first place that it worked was in “Parque de san Luis en la 5 de mayo n°704”. In February 1962 because of the high demand for entry to this school is based on evening shift. Time after, in February 1968 the current building was inaugurated by the president of the republic Licenciado Gustavo Diaz Órdaz, his wife Guadalupe Borja Diaz Órdaz and the governor of Puebla Engineer Aaron Hernández Merino. Currently the principal of the morning shift is teacher Tomasa Benitez Islas and as Assistant principal Teacher Ruth Acacia López Tinoco. Venustiano Carranza middle school has been one of the best public middle schools in Puebla Because this school had received many awards due to its collaboration in the education of many generations and many brilliant students graduated from there.

The school had perfect office, restrooms, main office, auditorium, library, teacher´s lounge (teachers’ staff room), nursery, laboratories physics and chemistry lab., basketball/volley ball court, store, green areas and parking. There were two buildings, one for the all the classrooms and the other for the offices of administration. In the school there were fifteen classrooms, five groups by grade (A to E). In the second floor of the classroom’s building, to the west, there were all the second grades and the girl´s bathroom and tree of third grades. To the east there was one of the first grades and the prefect office. In the ground floor, from the east to the west, there were audiovisual room, first grade group “e”, and two laboratories (chemistry-physics and computation), third grade group “c”, Assistants principal´s office, the school store, Principal´s office and finally, two of the first groups. In front of that building was the auditorium that was occupied for activities of the school and sometimes for activities of other kind like teacher´s conferences, health conferences, etc. In the administration´s building also were two first grades (“A” and ”B”), teacher´s lounge and the library. the school had public services like drinking water, electricity (energy supply), medical services, telephone, street lighting, drainage and public transports.

There were five hundred students in all the school. They made fifteen groups. Besides the main curriculum subjects, students developed other activities in the school. For example marching band, folklore dancing, cheerleads, rondalla and choir, poetry, etc. Administration office had a reception where people have to stay while waiting for the principal or Assistant´s principal. Also there was an office secretary. In that there were five secretaries and every one had the organization for one grade (notes, reports of conduct, etc). They had a desk by each one with one computer and printer. Principal office was very small. There were just a desktop, a Mexican flag, a photograph of the governor of the state, and character “Carranza”. Also there was one archivist. Cleaning room: in that place the support staff kept all the things that need for clean the school and also had old furniture. The principal had all the responsibilities and control of the school. Any activity has to be review by her. She controlled all the areas administrative, academic, etc. and solved any problem that present in the school. The principal assistance Teacher Ruth acacia Tinoco. She had just academic control of the school. when any problem presents and the principal was not, she had the authority to solve any situation. Teachers In this school the teachers had many responsibilities and commissions. In addition to teaching they had to rehearse for the parade, prepare poems, especial anniversaries, etc. also they are advisors of one group they had to occupied for each one of the student (grades, attitude, etc). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Missed classes for school activities One of the problems that I had to deal with in my class was missed classes for School activities. Extracurricular activities like rehearses of the anniversary’s school, chorus, danced, etc. provokes differences in the level of English. for example, on Monday, February 15th, 2010 in first grade group “e” was working with the expression “would you like to…”, they had to order a dialogue about invitations. one girl enter and said: “profesora, que permita salir a los alumnos que esten en coro, danza, poesía, banda y panderos”. all my students stand up and go to the door and told me: “miss tenemos que salir,” then I worked with fifteen students with the dialogues although the other students do not understand the topic when they arrive. The fifteen students worked very well and understood the topic of the class and did the activity. At last of the class i gave them homework for the next day. the next day we review the homework and the topic about likes/dislikes but the students that went out the class before did not know anything about it and obviously did not do homework. I could not continue with the class just with eight students but either i could explain again the topic because some students get bored. What should i do with this? Should I work with three or four people that stayed in the classroom however the rest of the group were missing? Should I work, in this time, with people that need more attention? Should I make groups in order to explain between them the topic of the day before? on Tuesday, February 16th 2010, in the same group, the students were working with the dialogues of the class before (they had to order the dialogues) and after we are going to review aspect for study the exam that will be tomorrow, when one teacher asked me to students of the poem, chorus and “banda”. The students had to go out but I said that tomorrow will be the exam and we are going to review some aspects, and it has their responsibility to study by themselves. i had to work with ten people and study for the exam. Should I not permit that they go out? What should I do? Should I not study with the other students until all the entire group was in the classroom?  On Monday, February 8th, 2010, in third grade group “B”, we are going to review and make recipes, so, I brought some examples and material to work, but the one teacher enter and said: “profesora pueden bajar los alumnos del desfile”, and all the girls and many of the boys had to go out. in the classroom just there was 3 students and the tutor, so, I couldn´t work with them. This class was loss. In the same day, in third grade group “c”, the students continued to rehearse for the parade, so, this class was loss too. On Tuesday, February 10th, 2010, in third grade group “b”, the rest of the group that did not finished to order the dialogue of the class before because they had to rehearse the parade, finished in this moment the work but, they did not know how to do this because they went out when I explained the topic. for this i think that some own of the activities of the school provoke to the students missed classes and also provokes a gap in the level of English in some students. What should I do? Should I review the topic for all of them again? Should I divide the classroom and formed groups of work?  TUTOR´S OBSERVATIONS In my working in the school ,I had to tutors throughout the year. The first was Arturo Carrizoza Frausto he was a substitute teacher for two years in the school. At the beginning, when I just observed, I was able to see that the teacher had a good relationship with students within and outside the classroom; also he tried to talk with students in English all the time and he had a very good English level. But something that I noticed was he did not applied or follow the program established for SEP and sometimes he did not had control of the groups. I was able to see it since the first week I observed the class. The third day of that week he began to teach and give the meaning of two verbs (these verbs were remember and love I remembered) after that ,he wrote a text in the board about one girl and her life, the students had to copy and translate it, students do it but he did not review. Next day he brought some magazines and gave students one for they looked up an article and copy it in their notebook and translate. Next day he brought a song and students just listened and translate. The following days he continued work like this way. When I was my turn and had to practice he asked me to bring some stories in past time for students translated them. This period of practice ended, when I returned to school I asked him what I had to teach in these following weeks and I supposed that I had to introduce the second unit of the program but he told me that I had to teach parts of the house in all the grades so I told him that I had to teach the second unit as the programs says but he told me that this programs were idealistic and did not worked in the real teaching but if I wanted to teach this I just did it. I realized that his classes did not had order and sequence he taught simple past one day, next day students sang a song, next day copied a text without a purpose. With these situations I wondered why the teacher did not applied the program in the classes? Why his classes did not have sequence? Why even he had a very good English level he did not know how to teach it?  <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">On January 2010 the principal teacher arrived, she was teacher Analilia Bonilla Mendoza. When she arrived she did not know much about the groups and the way that they used to work. So she asked me talking about the organization of the groups, the English level of the students, the ways that they used to work, problems that there were in the classrooms, etc. her beginning was difficult, all the students refuse her because they supposed that she had caused that the previous teacher had gone. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I was surprised how she did with students. In every group she talked a little about her life (likes, dislikes and challenges), after that every student had to do the same in the whole group. With this dynamic the teacher created good environment and balance the refuse to her from students. At the end on the dynamic she said that she was not guilty to the previous teacher had gone and they had to work for the rest of the year and was better had a good work environment. The students were surprised because they imagined that the teacher was rude and no one teacher could be like teacher Arturo. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> Her way of working in the classroom was different from teacher Arturo. She followed academic program, her classes had sequence and order, and she controlled the groups and also had a good level of English. When I observed her teaching I noticed that sometimes is worth experience than just had knowledge but did not know how to apply them. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">For that I wondered is the experience that helps you to choose the best ways to manage any situation in the classroom? if she had come up with a rude attitude, how students would have reacted? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Both experiences help me realized what I should and should not do with my students.
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