As evidence of this language proficiency, I include the PowerPoint used for the tutoring sections and template used, as well as the text message sent to the student's mother to coordinate the tutoring. This interest to set tutoring sessions for the student arose due to a journal prompt done in class. I noticed that the student needed help with organizing the sentences and including all the parts of a paragraph. This is important for students to learn because it helps them to organize their ideas and write them in a logical order. It also helps to strengthen the arguments and provide detail. During this tutoring sessions not only was the student reinforcing the structure of a paragraph but I also combined it with the process of writing. Here the student brainstormed ideas, created a draft, revised it, corrected it and then publish it as the final result. The writing process is important because it enables a student to improve their writing and correct possible grammatical errors. On the other hand, there is a picture, as I previously mentioned of the message sent to the student's parent. The message was sent in Spanish because my students and their parents first language is Spanish. Nonetheless, the written communication was effective.
In the future I would love to be more involved with my students parents and would definitely be available to tutor any student that needs it. How I would involve the parents and build that relationship would be through providing them with options to establish communication. As a result of these two activities I am a better person and educator because I saw the value in tutoring students and how that could be of positive impact in their learning more specifically their written communication. In addition to this, I understood that effective written communication is the key to develop a healthy and respectful relationship between peers.
Communication is inherent to human nature. We all need to communicate orally, in writing or nonverbally in order to express ourselves. In a classroom, interpersonal and group communication occurs. Whatever the type of conversation, both the teacher and the student must have appropriate interactions so that what is communicated is well received and there is no misunderstanding or confusion. The role of the teacher in a classroom is important because they are the ones who create the space for effective communication to take place. The teacher must have good communication skills because in addition to working with the students, he/she must work with the other teachers, the school principal and, not least, with the parents. Giving space to foster good communication between the speaker and the listener produces a healthy environment for everyone in the school setting.
In 2019, for the EING 3257: "Public Speaking" class I made a speech paying tribute to Louis Zamperini. In this speech I talked about his journey as an Olympic athlete and World War II soldier. It details those aspects that I found admirable such as his strong mentality to persevere, his resilience to drastic conditions and his bravery and courage to forgive others. For this paper I had to search for different biographies about his life and then summarize the most relevant aspects in order to present in detail why I consider him to be a person to admire.
I choose this paper as evidence because through this class I learned about different ways of speaking in front of an audience. Public speaking has different purposes these can be to persuade, inform or educate the listeners. In education teachers use a lot of oral and written communication with students to inform and educate them in order for them to learn. This evidence demonstrates mastery of the competency because through it I was able to communicate to the listeners in that classroom about the life of Louis Zamperini. I had to formulate a writing with clear ideas and sentences so that the listeners would understand why this man was my choice. After formulating my paper, in order to present the work, I was required to speak in a clear manner, pronouncing the words well and in a proper tone so that either the person closest to me or the person farthest from me in the room could hear me. Taking this class and doing this job helped me improve my self-confidence and confidence to speak in front of people and improved my ability to communicate using appropriate language. This experience benefits my development as a future teacher because the confidence to speak in front of others is important for students to take my position as a leader seriously. In addition, having appropriate language allows the message the teacher gives to students and others in the school environment to be understood.