1.

Planning, teaching and reflecting:

a. Discuss your experience planning, teaching and reflecting on this course.
b. For one lesson plan include the plan, reflect upon the experience of
designing the plan the way you did and what you learned by using this new
format.
c. Teaching: Discuss your experience teaching with the course theories in
mind.
d. Reflection: Discuss your experience in giving and receiving feedback. How
was the process for you? What did you learn via the feedback and what
impact has the feedback process had upon you?
A. This course opened a new window for my soul in terms of lesson planning, it released a
version of me that I enjoy as a teacher, and I finally feel like I can convey my personality
into my teaching.
I do not mean that I want to force my students into liking what I like, but I do believe
that I can offer a lot of my students in terms of their learning not for what I am but for
what I can offer.
Teaching from this comprehensive approach is something that I enjoy because I feel like
I can open the world to my learners, I feel like I am finally able to understand this world
as a place that I am part of, and therefore, make my students be part of this place we call
Earth.
What is enjoyable and I digested in a smooth, safe, and digestible manner is the new
feedback framework we have used thus far in this course. Its unavoidable for me to
compare this new approach to the one of the TESOL Course because that is the only
parameter I have and, therefore, it comes natural, based on that, there are two shapes in
my mind, a squared-sharp angled box and this shapeless, eclectic, and exploratory
approach of this course.
I want to think that Liz Lerman was pushed really hard towards her limits, that she felt
misunderstood and undervalued when she arrived into this feedback process, and which
is why she valued the actions and the thinking process behind such actions rather than
the outcome and the downfalls of her performance. I cannot help but relating to
something like that, I need a space where I can value the skills of others, what they think
and what they feel I believe this life is too short to waste it in rights and wrongs, but I
value and love the process of thinking.

B.

What is planning but a walk into the winding roads of thinking, an exploration of ways,
textures, sensations, and feelings.
I experienced a sense of freedom with this new format, I felt like after a long time of
teaching I finally had the opportunity to take off the mask of a double life a very heavy
burden to live with.
There is still plenty of room within my head to elaborate on this, its like I have been given
a huge amount of clay that I have to mold.
I understand now that veering off the lesson plan to follow the path of my students learning
is worthy.
C. Planning with these theories in mind has triggered my curiosity, this sense of teaching
for humans, as a human, is satisfying because my inside teacher is eager to help others see
the world from an open window free of judgement, where the only bias is love.
D. In both feedback sessions, after the days I taught, I mentioned that I felt emotionally safe
because this Liz Lerman process focuses on the thinking process rather than on the actions
per se.
I learned to think before speaking, I learned that my peers feelings and effort deserves my
total respect.
It is unavoidable to fall into the common place of comparing the feedback format of the SIT
format and this one, and while the first is a square-sharp-pointed square, the latter is a
rounded-soft-heart-shaped balloon.

1. Key moments that show your students learning and also your understanding and
implementation of course theory
Choose 7-10 key moments from your work this course in which you could see and
understand and reflect upon your students learning using at least 2-3 theories from
this course. Delve deeply and broadly into describing and analyzing what happened
and what intelligent actions you will carry from these experiences.
I do not have 7-10 moments that show my students learning or my understanding and
implementation of course theory, but I would like to share the ones I have:
On my first day of teaching, I prepared a lesson that versed over adjectives to describe large
cities, although one of my intentions was to make my students feel like they were part of
this world.
I started my lesson with what I intended to be a mindfulness practice, which my trainer on
charge that day told me was spiced up by a touch of play that gave the activity a very
reachable condition.
I want to highlight how easy it was for my students to engage on the lesson, I was able to
see that throughout the class, and I was also able to connect with my students by triggering
their desire to see new places.
For this lesson, I intended to apply tone of the principles of the Akashic Theory that says
that we are part of the world and the world is part of us.
My intention was to give my students a sensation of belonging to this planet, because that is
what I think in reality.
I remember that at one point of the class, I showed a video to the students and they seemed
to be having a good time seeing parts of Mexico City, I was also able to see their learning
because they were using the target language of the lesson.
I remember that one of the students said that now he wanted to go to Mexico City, which I
think met one of my goals, awakening their curiosity to see the world as it is.
Another of my meaningful moments of that lesson was the intimate environment that was
achieved, we worked under a very safe, relaxing and friendly atmosphere.
On the second day of my teaching, I wanted to explore something deeper in terms of the
human condition: feelings and emotions.
For that lesson, I had in mind a lesson plan with the shape of a landscape, mountains, lakes,
roads, and a lot a green areas, the reason why I chose that scenery is because I think that
human feelings are like a landscape, they are everywhere.

I intended to apply theories of social behavior in order to express empathy, and also to
share that there is nothing wrong with showing feelings.
I was not able to convey what I intended so the students adapted the lesson to their own
needs. I let it go, they were having fun and learning to their own desire.
There was a moment that meaningful, they were talking to a bot online, and they were
having the time of their life. I envy such pureness of soul.
Another meaningful time was when the students wrote a short letter to my fellow teachers, I
am sure many of them had a great moment by reading those letters. After I spoke to my
peers I knew the intention of my lesson had been met.
Write a self-evaluation of your learning and teaching during this course. What have you
done well? What could you improve upon? What adjectives would you use to describe
you and your work these twelve weeks? What are your strengths? What areas will you be
working on in future teaching contexts and what are at least 3 action plans that you might
consider doing when you return to your context? What questions are you left with and
thinking about in regards to learning and teaching? Make a list of 3-5 questions. You may
choose to explain the question or the reason that you are attracted to the question.
I want to start by saying that I was not able to keep up with the online part of this course.
The reasons are several, including a huge work load this semester, and my inability to relate
the readings to my teaching context. I regret that part, I wish I had had the ability to finish
the whole part.
I cant think of a positive adjective to describe my work during these last twelve weeks,
however, I am positive that I made the right decision by coming here. I like the idea of
provoking a change in the world by starting in the classroom.
I leave CEM with the desire to trigger changes in those around me. The 3 areas that I would
like to explore in my future teaching contexts are prosocial behaviors, communities of
practice and creativity and play.
My actions plan are related to implementing lessons that provoke awareness of what is
going on in the world, I want to work with individuals that realize that the worlds is theirs
and that loving is part of the solution to the current state of violence we are facing.