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    The document summarizes the author's experiences during their practicum teaching at an adult school. Some key observations included seeing a grandmother, mother, and teenager all taking classes together to help each other complete high school. The author also noted it is common for adult classes to have low participation, possibly due to shame or fear of failure. During one class, the author's guide teacher removed two students who had been smoking marijuana and were intoxicated, though the author did not notice this at the time while focused on teaching. In conclusion, the author reflected that adult learners are often voluntary students balancing education with other responsibilities, so classes need to clearly further their educational goals to hold their attention.

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    The document summarizes the author's experiences during their practicum teaching at an adult school. Some key observations included seeing a grandmother, mother, and teenager all taking classes together to help each other complete high school. The author also noted it is common for adult classes to have low participation, possibly due to shame or fear of failure. During one class, the author's guide teacher removed two students who had been smoking marijuana and were intoxicated, though the author did not notice this at the time while focused on teaching. In conclusion, the author reflected that adult learners are often voluntary students balancing education with other responsibilities, so classes need to clearly further their educational goals to hold their attention.

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    Pedagogical Artifacts

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    The document summarizes the author's experiences during their practicum teaching at an adult school. Some key observations included seeing a grandmother, mother, and teenager all taking classes together to help each other complete high school. The author also noted it is common for adult classes to have low participation, possibly due to shame or fear of failure. During one class, the author's guide teacher removed two students who had been smoking marijuana and were intoxicated, though the author did not notice this at the time while focused on teaching. In conclusion, the author reflected that adult learners are often voluntary students balancing education with other responsibilities, so classes need to clearly further their educational goals to hold their attention.

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    Pedagogical Artifacts

    Observation Period:

    As I made my practicum in an Adult School, one of the events that


    impressed me was to see almost a whole family in the class. I
    mean, there was a teenager, her mother and her grandmother, all of
    them as students. The three of them made a great effort to finish
    highschool, helping each other to accomplish their tasks.

    Team Teaching Stage:

    This extract was taken from the Book


    “Teaching English as a Second or Foriegn Language” Third Edition
    Marianne Celce – Murcia, Editor
    Unit IV: Focus on the Learner, Chapter : “Teaching Adults” by Sharon Hilles and
    André Sutton.
    Adult Learners, Page387.

    I red this chapter before my praacticum and I could confirm that the study of
    Trosset is an actual fact, because it is usual to note that in adult classes there is
    a very low participation. Maybe, because of the shame... maybe, because of the
    the fear of failure.
    Teaching Stage:

    I was beginning my third class and two students came in and took place in front
    of the computers. Suddenly, my guide teacher appeared and asked those
    students to leave the classroom. I didn´t realize why they had to leave. I just
    looked at them and said good by. After the class, the teacher told me those
    students had been smoking weed and she noticed that because of their smell
    and their attitude, they were stoned, but I was so focused in the class that I did
    not take into account about that situation.

    Reflective Writing

    When I started my practicum at the adult school, I thought there will be no big
    difference between that kind of school and a normal one, such as a primary or
    secondary school. Now, I can tell that the reality is another, because adult
    learners are most often voluntary learners. Unlike their younger counterparts,
    who are required by law or by their parents to be in school until a particular age,
    adult learners are in school because they want to be, a desire, which is almost
    always inconvenient and often interrupted by family and job responsabilities and
    commitments. As a result, adult learners tend to have little patience with classes
    which they perceive are not furthering their own educational agendas.

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