Christian Guillen Clinic Practice

  My r eflection    Every day we encounter a different version of ourselves and our students. In the words of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, ‘No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man’. In this process of change, reflection allows us to learn and grow, personally and professionally. So I consider that the teaching practice becomes a constantly changing journey, where reflection is present and generates action and change, as if it were a cycle constantly repeating itself at different times (Kemmis and McTaggart, 1988).   As a result, I understood the importance of research in teaching. Through my experience, I can say that I am a person who allows myself to get to know my students and I try to give each one what he or she needs, constantly reflecting on what happens in the class and after the class. Often we are more concerned with reaching  the objectives of the class that we forget that certain strategies may or may not

Date:  24.04.04 Teacher:  Christian Guillen Subject:  Building community at school (feelings lab) Lesson title Be kind at school Class length 45 min Class/ student information 10 students between 7 and 8 years old.  A1 level.  Lesson aims  Identify the importance of being kind, how to apply in school context and reflecting about the emotions involved in the process.     Stages and time Lesson procedure (describe the activities and instructional strategies) Justification for the activity (content, language, cognition, culture) Warm up and schemata activation 10 minutes In group pupils listen to a song about being kind at school and how to be a good friend they learn sign language and repeat.  Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulD13mqksJc   Content:  General information about what is to be a kind at school. Language:  already known language related to school and some new words related to how to be kind at school. Cognition:  recognize, recall and repeat previews and new vocabulary re

Date:  23.04.04 Teacher:  Christian Guillen Subject:  Building community at school (feelings lab) Lesson title Are you a good friend at school? Class length 45 min Class/ student information 10 students between 7 and 8 years old.  A1 level.  Lesson aims  Identify what is and the importance of being a good friend, how to apply in school context and reflecting if they are a good friend.   Stages and time Lesson procedure (describe the activities and instructional strategies) Justification for the activity (content, language, cognition, culture) Warm up and schemata activation 10 minutes Reflection about what makes a good friend? T asks pupils and writes the ideas on the board.  Are you a good friend? How can you be a good friend at school?         Content:  General information about what is to be a good friend. Language:  already known language related to school. Cognition:  reflection and critical thinking about what they know about being a good friend and answer to the question, are yo

Date:  25.04.04 Teacher:  Christian Guillen Subject:  Building community at school (feelings lab) Lesson title Empathic at school Class length 45 min Class/ student information 10 students between 7 and 8 years old.  A1 level.  Lesson aims  Identify the importance of being empathic at school, how to apply in school context and reflecting about the emotions involved in the process.     Stages and time Lesson procedure (describe the activities and instructional strategies) Justification for the activity (content, language, cognition, culture)  Warm up and schemata activation 8 minutes Welcome students and play a game with emotions cards. Activate prior knowledge by displaying cards with different facial expressions and ask students to identify the emotion, ask S, what is the emotion, if they don’t know how to explain it to them and practice repetition.   Play stop: with the flashcards, tell them to tell you to stop when the right emotion picture it’s one while passing them by.   Content: