VIII. Write an assessment about how useful the TVYL practice is in your way to become an ELT teacher.

In this assessment report we are going to talk about the things that we learned during our teaching practicum and how useful is if you want to become an English teacher.

During our experience teaching young children we can say that at the beginning we were not sure how to teach children. We thought that it could be difficult for us. We did not know how to teach the topics and what kind of activities we had to do in the classroom, but it was not too difficult at all. There were days that we did not want to continue going to the school and teaching the class, but there were day that we enjoyed the classes because we had fun with the students during the class or when we did an activity.By the time we were teaching,  we discovered many activities that students liked doing and at the same time they learned.

The main objective of the teaching practicum is to provide student teachers with authentic experience in teaching. This is required to develop their teaching skills and to start collecting experiences to enrich their professional wisdom. It is not enough to read about teaching or to observe others teach. Another important role of the practicum is to provide a supported entry to the profession, to know how the children’s behavior is and how to act around them.

The TVYL practice was very important for us because nowadays we already know how to teach children. Also, we got an experience that will be very important for our life as future teachers.