Field Teach 2

2/12/07-
I did my field teach yesterday and it went rather well. I had a slight problem with technology, because I could not connect to the internet to acess the radio clip that I had orginally planned them to listen to. This created an obstacle, but did not make the lesson impossible. I gave them the facts about Tortillas in English, and how important they are to the Mexican diet. Then, we read the article from the BBC out loud. This was a difficult task for them, they are only in a Spanish 2 class, and rarely see anything like this, entirely in Spanish and geared toward an Native Spanish speaking population.
The class was very hesitant to dive into this, they were uncomfortable, and you could tell this lesson pushed them beyong their comfort zone--something they are not used to.
I needed more time than orginally planned, but we got through the majority of the lesson, we didnt end up getting to the analytical processing at the end.
Something I did well: My teacher presence has improved greatly.
Something I need to work on: I need to know my kids names. I know a lot of them, but not all.
Something I learned: The kids didnt think they could do it because they were never expected to read something like this. Maybe more familiarity with this type of text would help them be less freighten of "real Spanish"