PEDAGOGICAL  PROJECT II

When teaching to children or teenagers, especially a foreign language such as English, it is important to keep in mind that they tend to get easily distract and misbehave during the lesson. On the one hand, children have a short attention span so they usually misbehave or move around the classroom when the teacher is teaching; on the other hand, teenagers can be concentrated in the lesson but they are in the age of rebel in which they feel that they can do whatever they want, that is the reason why they do not like to pay attention or follow teachers’ instructions.

We, as pre-service teachers, have to take into account those characteristics when teaching to these two different kind of population in order to prepare ourselves for facing students’ misbehave. It is essential for teachers to acquire classroom management skills to manage students’ conducts; the problem is that those skills are only acquired with practice and experience, so most of the beginning teachers will have difficulties managing their classrooms. For that reason, I consider that the process of observing English classes in real contexts is too beneficial for pre-service teachers since they have the opportunity to see the different strategies that in-service teachers applied, and take them as a reference for their professional development.