Last week two teachers visited one of my classes at night shift, they are part of the Fulbright Exchange Program. One of them is from my city and he is our PAD, a teacher in charge of articulating activities and visiting classes on behalf of the national authority in English teaching in Educación Secundaria, the other teacher was from a high school in Denver Colorado.
I worked with the video of the song 'Luka' by Suzanne Vega and posters of children from organizations againgst child abuse. The worksheet was focused on: a first part of listening comprehension and a second one focusing on a critical comprehension of the lyrics. Then the last part was for SS to choose between two tasks: a role-play between the Luka and Suzanne Vega or describing to their class how they imagine Luka's life.
Students were very involved in all the activities and had an active participation and they liked the song very much.
About the visitors, Jennifer, the American teacher told me she liked the class and I worked in a similar way to hers, then we talked about my experience implementing new tools in class and what I have done in other classes. I told them I had started a facebook with one of my groups as an alternative tool to blogs.
To sum up, it was very rewarding to have a positive feedback from outside the class, because it encourages me to go on with what it has worked well and to try new things as I learned from experience.
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