School visit to Bridgeport and Brewster

First of all I am going to talk about the first school that we visited: Bridgeport. The school is one of the best schools in the whole country, despite the fact that it is rural. It has 81% of Spanish speakers especially from Mexico. The first class that we observed was the 9th grade. The teacher was extremelly entertaining and all his students were very interested in his class (he was making a performance where all the students were participating). The second class was the 6th grade and we could not observe the class because when we enter the classrom with the Principal every student were very interested in us, they wanted to know everything about Chile. We told them about food, coins, the language that we speak in Chile, Pablo Neruda, etc. The kids were very nice!

In general I really liked the teachers of this school because they were very nice with their students , I thik that they love teaching! For this reason this school is one of the best in the country.

The second school that we visited was Brewster. The firs class that we observed was about Total Physical Response.There were 3 groups of 5 little students (all of them were Spanish speakers) , and one monitor for each group. The problem with this class was that the monitors were not teachers and they lost patience easily . From my point of view the class was not very good owing to the fact that the students were very confused about what they had to do, because the teacher gave a sign before the students imitate what she was doing, and if the students imitated the teacher's movement before she gave the sign, she got angry. For this reason the students did not understand very well what they had to do. I did not like vey much this class.

The second class that we observed had only 3 students (they were Spanish speakers too) and the teacher was bilingual. The activity that they had to do was visual in which they had to memorize every picture on the table and then the teacher took out one of them (while the kids had their eyes closed) and one of the students had to say what picture was missing. The second activity consisted on singing.

The level of English of this school was lower than the firt school.

In Chile the rural schools are very different. Firt of all they are not as comfortable as school of USA. The number of students is very small in rural schools of Chile (they have around 60 students ). In fact the classroom have two different classes at the same time with the same teacher! So it is a big problem and for this reason the rural schools in Chile are really bad in terms of education.