High School English Teaching: Alba Ruth Ortiz

RESUME

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Complete name: Alba Ruth Ortiz Rosales

Age: 20

Marital Status: Single

Place of birth: ISSS Santa Ana, El Salvador

Date of birth: 16/03/1994

E-mail: albaortizrosales@hotmail.com

EDUCATION

Centro Escolar Colonia “El Edén” –Santa Ana, El Salvador

Elementary School-- 2001

Complejo Educativo Republica de Guatemala, now Complejo Educativo Profesor Martin Romeo Monterrosa Rodríguez –Santa Ana, El Salvador

Elementary School, Junior High and High School --2002-2011

Currently studying at the University of El Salvador, Western Multidisciplinary Campus

Licenciatura en Idioma Inglés, Opción enseñanza, since 2012

EXPERIENCE

Colegio Dominico Santo Tomás de Aquino, Santa Ana, El Salvador

Kindergarten teaching practicum –2013

Currently at Centro Escolar Colonia “El Edén”

Junior High teaching practicum -- 2014

AWARDS

The first place at declamation contest in 2005

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Data System Computers

Title in basic knowledge of computers (power point, internet, Microsoft word, excel, etc) 2007

MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY

My complete name is Alba Ruth Ortiz Rosales; I was born in Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (ISSS) Santa Ana, El Salvador on March 16^th, 1994. I grew up in a small family in Santa Ana. My father’s name is Victor Ortiz, my mother’s name is Estela de Ortiz and my brother’s name is Bonh Jovi Ortiz. I studied elementary school in two different schools. The first one named Centro Escolar Colonia “El Eden” (2001), and the second one named Complejo Educativo Profesor Martin Romeo Monterrosa Rodriguez in which I studied junior high and high school (2002-2011). I graduated on November 2011.

MY TEACHING PHILOSOFY

I am very happy to be a teacher because I consider that teaching is an excellent way of helping others, for example, sharing knowledge with them. Also, my students share knowledge with me, and as some people say that learning does not stop; I think that it is true because every day we learn something different.

I really enjoy teaching and encouraging others because sometimes people just need a help. I really love to teach because I consider that teaching is a special way to motivate people to become better everyday.

I try to be patience all the time and to understand the situations or problems the students have in order to make better classes.

EXPERIENCE

This teaching practice was really nice and interesting because I went to a school that has the program of a distance learning. In other words, I taught students who went on weekends to the school. I went on Saturdays in the mornig. I had students from 18 to 28 years old. It was a really nice experience because I am just 20 years old, and it is the first time that I taught students over my age. My students were really respectful because I taught them with respect, too. In other words, I did not consider myself better than them just of my experience. On the contrary, I tried to motivate and to encourage them to learn English event though they just went to classes on Saturdays.

I really tried to understand them because they made a good efford when going to school because they work during the week. That's why, I made dynamic activities in order to make them learn the new lessons.

I liked very much when they understood the topics and when they asked me to help them. That's why, I advise teachers to be really patience all the time and to motivate students even though they look as if they do not want to learn. The results are really good because the satisfaction of teaching others is really amazing.

Moreover, I advise teachers to understand students because sometimes they are really tired of their jobs or maybe they have problems at home.

The better a teacher can do is to be a friend and a excellent teacher at the same time.

LESSONS

LESSON PLAN

Date: Saturday, September 6^th, 2014	Time: 90 minutes.
Topic: Traveling around the world
Language focus: Learning about countries and culture
Previous Topic Work: Places in your country
Previous Language Work: Learning about the different places in the country
Objective: To learn about travels and different vocabulary related with traveling and culture
Materials: Decorative charts with some places of countries and vocabulary related with travels, radio, and cd.
Warm-up: To play the “guess the country” for introducing the new topic

Class Activity

Time	Procedure
2 minutes	Greet students
8 minutes	Warm-up activity To play the “guess the country” for introducing the new topic. This game consists in guessing the name of the country by showing some different places or cities around the world.
10 minutes	Ask students what they know about traveling Ask students if they travel outside the country Ask students if they know the vocabulary for traveling
8 minutes	Teach about traveling around the world
8 minutes	Explain the new vocabulary for traveling
8 minutes	Repeat a conversation of making a reservation in a hotel
6 minutes	Repeat each vocabulary relating of traveling (hotel reservation, license, credit card, etc)
10 minutes	Watch a short video about tips for traveling
8 minutes	Ask questions about the video What are some tips for traveling? Can you explain them? Which ones do you prefer? Which ones do not like you?
6 minutes	Ask students to do a short conversation about traveling
8 minutes	Ask students to perform the conversation they wrote
8 minutes	Play “guess the word” for making a mini feedback In this activity, I am going to mimic the meaning of a word relating with traveling, and the students are going to guess the word.
Ø Homework/Further practice: Write five sentences using the vocabulary of traveling