Week #3

This week was devoteed (almost all) to evaluation. For Alexander, my mentor teacher, it is too important to be so precise with cuantitative evaluation. He has taught me how important is for children and their parents to get the exact grade because, on the contrary, we are going to get a lot of complains.
During this period of evaluation, I have realized which are the most difficult things for the students and their Achilles heel: the listening competence. In thi kind of excercises, the students use to make a lot of errors and, for me, it is worrying, to grade them with a very low grade.
According to my observations, I have identified some routines iin Alexander's classes. First, he does a warm up or a motivation about the topic, he explains, in detail, what is the class going too be about and an explanation of the topic (using, alays, grammar support). Finally, he does an evaluative activity (not necessary graded) to make sure how much did the students learn.
In the middle of all the classes he uses to interrupt (or if they're doing a mess) to talk about formative issues: about the importance of listening, responsibility, about how important is to be concentrated on doing the assigned task and so on.
Talking to my mentor teacher, took me to think of the importance of the importance of training in primary students because more than giving knowledge (topics) the teacher's duty is to teach them to be integrate persons.