WHAT I LIKE AND DO NOT LIKE ABOUT WORKING WITH TEENAGERS

Adolescence is an interesting stage in human beings` lives, but it is also a complicated and difficult stage especeally when adolescense is related with education, since teenagers do not care much about learning. That is why working with teenagers becomes such a difficult task.

During my teaching practicum, I have had many experiences working with teens. What I like about working with themis that they are very enthusiastic and they have a lot of energy. For this reason they need to be busy all the time. It is very important and good to develop many activities with them.
I am working with seventh grade in my teaching practicum. They are getting use to English because it tis the first year they have this subject. Some of them are interested on learning a second language and they ask a lot of things in class. On the other hand, there also students who do not care about the class and about learning English. They get easily frustrated becuse they do not understand.
They also like to participate a lot when I carry out an activity or an exercise, what I like about them because they like to participate even though they make mistakes, they even get kind of angry when I do not let them participate all the time. I do it in order to give the chance to other students who are shy or have problems with the topic.
My students get happy games due to their teacher do not like to do these kinds of things because he says the learning need to be serious and that he see these things worthless. Luckly, he gives me the opportunite to play games and carry out activities like warm ups and time fillers, and I think he have realize these activities are good for teens.

However, there are some things that I do not like about working with teenagers

• Teens get distracted easily with things are not related with the class. If they are sitting near of friends they talk too much and they do not pay attention.
• They also do no like to do homework assignments,neither the ones I gave them nor the ones their teachers assign them.
• Teenagers do not put much effort on learning English, which sometimes makes me feels sad or dessapointed because they are not conscious of the importance of a second language.
• It is very difficult for them to write properly. They have a lot of problems with spelling.
• They do not study at home because they are satisfied only with the classes they receive. Even though I encourage them to study hard, they do not do it yet.

I have learn a lot working with teenagers. As normal in the teaching process, I have had good and bad days with them. However, I like to work with them and I am enjoying this experience