Second period; second teaching time

   My second teaching time in this period has been successful because I worked on it making a reading comprehension, the teacher Alex gave me the steps to develop it easily. I just planned the time in my agenda for every step to follow, and everything flowed normally. The students  cooperated on it, they were very active completing every part of  it.   I  provided  one sheet per one student, and they have to read it carefully, I gave them 5 minutes just for reading it. After that, I wanted to play the audio with the reading, and they had to follow the reading but unfortunately, the audio did not work. So, I had to think about one way to read  and listen it.  I decided to choose one student to start reading  and as I said stop,  someone else had to continue the reading.  The only problem that I had here was that I did not give feedbacks to the students after they finished  the reading. 

When I went to receive my feedback the teacher told me that I had to give feedbacks to my students after finish the reading because they need to know what words they pronounced incorrectly. So, I did not imagine that was my responsability to correct them. Now, I already want to put in practice these kind of experiences I have learned. I know that it was something for which  I was not prepared. 

Second period; first teaching time

   Today, I started my first entry in my teaching practicum in this second period. So, I prepared my agenda to teach it in one hour class. I made a warm up as the teacher  Alex suggested me.  Everything was perfect because the students participated in the activity. But the only problem that I faced it is that the group it is too small. There are only 12 students but  the problema is not the number. The problem is that no all of them arrived on time  at class or they do not attend it as the teacher told us the first day when we  went to observed his class.  As I received the order from the mentor  to start the class in the classroom just there were 4 students but the warm up  I had planned was  to work in pairs. So, I  started  it with  them.   It sounds crazy but  I had to  make more time than the normal giving the directions while I was waiting for another couple of students to arrive to the classroom. 

    Those students are friendly and  cooperative, they always take seriously every   provided activity. Therefore,  they need  to make more practices as much as possible to take advantage of their enthusiasm to learn English. I had planned one writing activity for  10 minutes but they needed more time. I monitored them,  and I saw that they were working on it. So, I decided to give them 3 extra-minutes more to complete every item.  But those 3 extra-minutes caused me problems working in the  next exercises.  Now, I would you like to know what do you  think about the time management that you assign  to your students for every exercise. Is ok to provide extra-time?