Alessandra Herrera

TESL/TEFL Portfolio

Methods Comparison

Practice Teaching Materials

Sample Student Activity

Sample Seating Chart

Sample Classroom Procedures and Expectations

Articles of Interest

Resume

Cover Letter

Course Assignment 1: Speaking Rubric

Course Assignment 2: Fluency Building

Methods Comparison

In my language teaching methods comparison, I discuss the similarities, differences, strengths and weaknesses between five influential approaches. Approaches such as, Audio-lingual, silence way, suggestopedia, total physical response (TPR), and communicative.

teaching methods (1).docx

Practice Teaching Materials

I decided to showcase my very first lesson I created. It focuses on informing the students about different techniques that would allow their reading speed to increase.Although the first lesson always has room for improvement, I am very proud of it because of how much my students and fellow trainees enjoyed the articles I had paired with this lesson.

Below are the articles I had the students read and I made sure they were for intermediate to advanced students. I personally read these articles and found them interesting and good resources for the students to test their reading speed.

Articles for Increasing Reading Speed

Here we have some feedback provided by the TESL/TEFL coordinator, Celeste Coleman.

Here we have a revised lesson plan. Although this was my very first lesson , I am still very proud of and I can confidently it would be way better if I had the opportunity to reteach this lesson again.

Increasing reading Speed Presentation 2020.pptx

2-18 lesson plan template Alessandra Herrera

Feedback to Alessandra on 2-18 lesson.docx

2-18 Revised.docx

Feedback to Alessandra on 2-18 lesson.docx

Sample Student Activity

For this activity, I chose a listening activity task I developed. Students are to watch a clip from the James Bond movie and then engage in pre-, during, and post-listening activities relating to the clip

Create a Listening Activity to Share

Sample Seating Chart

This seating chart is designed for a high-intermediate group of high school students in South Korea. Depending on tasks they can either work as a pair of 2 or in a group of 4. Their seating arrangement would be changed monthly so the students have a chance to meet more of their classmates and get to practice English.

The desks filled in with red, represent students who are more advanced. They can help the students in blue, that are struggling or have lower level English skills.

Assigned seats would also be changed monthly to ensure each student has a chance to meet with others.

Seating Chart

Sample Classroom Procedures and Expectations

I created this simple classroom expectations for the students to follow, this is mean for Korean middle school or High School students.They are needed so that the class can function.

Classroom Procedures

Articles of Interest

While creating one of my lessons I selected a few articles for the students to read that were very educational and interesting to them.

The first article focused on how different countries celebrate Valentines Day or any other holiday that commemorates love and bonding. The countries included South Korea, Wales, Argentina, and the U.S. This article is relevant to me because I plan to teach abroad in South Korea and I want to learn more about the culture.

Because I want to teach in Korea someday, I found this article that focuses on the most common mistakes Korean Students make. It's good to know how to handle these potential mistakes and help them correct them.

The third article focuses on how to teach culture related lessons with different kinds of practical techniques and what you can expect from students who have not yet mastered the English language. It's an interesting article because it acts as a guideline on teaching culture focused lessons and gives suggestions on what kind of activities would be great.

Articles of Interests

Resume

To obtain a teaching position in South Korea as a certified TESL certified teacher. I want to gain more experience from teaching children and adults English as a foreign language.

Resume.docx

Cover Letter

My goals , experience, and personal information all in a cover letter. I want to teach in South Korea and I know it would be perfect for me to gain more experience.

TESL/TEFL Cover Letter

Course Assignment 1: Speaking Rubric

I want to showcase an example of a personalized grading rubric I created for a Digital Introduction Activity. It shows what I expect from the students when they attempt this activity and what to avoid. Overall, I would commend them for their effort.

I was inspired to do create such activity because when I was learning Chinese Mandarin at CSUSM, one of the assignments was to make a presentation with an audio recording of speaking in Chinese as we introduced ourselves. I found it fun and challenging and I'd thought it be a great activity for my future students.

Rubric

Course Assignment 2: Fluency Building

With the help of a fellow trainee I was able to conjure up a fun fluency building activity for intermediate to advanced students. This will help them get more comfortable with casual conversations about vacation destinations. The skill focus of the activity is speaking and listening and contains some cultural undertones.This was an assignment in our program that had started out with 2 trainees starting together then finishing separately.

Fluency Building

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