Name: Sebastián Rodríguez Moncada

Routine of Opening a lesson

To make an opening of a lesson productive, it is necessary to begin with a friendly
welcome to the class, make our students feel comfortable with the space where
they are going to work. In the next step, we are going to introduce the main subject
of the class, but before that, we can seize this opening time and ask them what do
they remember or like about the previous lesson(s), in order to consolidate the
knowledge of the last subject(s) and in this way, check the student’s learning.
Now then, we can introduce the subject by asking them what they know about it,
we can use their responses as a help to introduce the subject of the lesson.
Another way to do this, it is by relating the subject to a situation close to the
student’s reality. In this way, they will be focused on the topic and then, they will be
steady to start the class you prepared.
At this point, we must make sure about the amenity that the student manages the
communication with the teacher and his schoolmates, this aspect will decide how
comfortable is he feeling in the class. Besides that, the introduction of the topic is
essential to catch up the student’s attention for the whole lesson, by doing this step
appropriately, the lesson will be successful both for the teacher and for the student.
Finally, it is important to establish the objective of the lesson, we must tell the
student what is this class for?, so that the activities and all the tasks that will be
developed during the lesson have a purpose.

Routine of Closure a Lesson

To not finish the class in an abrupt way, it is necessary at least to have enough
time to make a feedback of the whole lesson, checking for pros and cons and how
the group can improve for the next time. At this point, it is suitable to make this
feedback not only by the teacher, but also by the students, because it is important
to know how they felt in the moment they were doing the tasks, it was good? Bad?
It could be better? All these responses are valuable because it is a retrospection
exercise, so they get aware about what they did.
After this, we can also ask them “what do they think of the lesson?”, or “did you like
this topic?”, “did you like the exercises we got done?”. This exercise will help
specially the teacher since he can know if the methodology he used in this group is
functional or not, so that he can make changes in order to improve the treatment of
the topic and in this way, make the process learning even more efficient than
before. Furthermore, you can motivate the students for the next lesson by telling
them a little preamble of the next subject. By doing this, they can look for more
about the topic and come more excited to the next lesson.
To finish the class, you got nothing left to say but “thanks for coming” letting them
know how profitable was this time you spent with them and you cannot look
forward to the next lesson.