MY PROFILE

My name is Hazel Abigail Pineda. When I was a Little girl, one of my favorite things was teach to my teady bear the ABC. years later, my mother  told me that I used to make my own paper board and teach the multiplication tables to all my teddies every afternoon; time later, when I was 12 years old, I decided to work in the minestery of bible school of my church, since then, I teach to children about the immense love of God.

 Now, I'm 20 years old and I´m studying a degree in languages with specialization in english teaching at Universidad Don Bosco, El salvador. To be honest, it was very difficult for me learning English, I didn't have any extra study of the language before entering to the University, so I had to make a double effort to not fail. However, I'm in 4th year of my career and I'm so proud of myself for all that I have done and I have learned.

I think that all people have to do what they like, in my case, my decition to be a teacher was rejected by many people and still is, but that was not an obstacle. In my second year, I had the opportunity to be a teacher in a educational program from the Colegio Don Bosco, I gave class of language and literature to girls and boys that coudn´t  finish their studies of  high school for different reasons. That was the first time that I worked with teenagers and even, some of them were adults, much older than me. It was hard for me, due to, the class was every saturdays morning from 8 to 12 and my students were all the morning sitting in front of the board and when they had class with me, they were tired and bored, but I made an effort and finally, they took their exam and completed the course.

The first time that I give a class at the university, was for the subject Practicum I. I was standing in front of 10 kids teaching them "the family members", I remember that I was very nervous to make a mistake, because of my teacher and all my classmates were looking me, however, I realised that the kids were more nervous than me, so I tried to forget my nervous and I looked for ways to make them feel comfortable. At the end of the class, I feel so happy to see that my little students feel excited to return the next class. I really enjoyed teaching children because there are many activities and games that you can do, and they always semeed to be eager to participate, I remmember my childhood working with them. Also, with the help of my good teacher, I learned to have control of my voice and of course control of  the class, and I learned many things from my classmate too.

  She was my excellente colleague Abigail.

they were our students at Practicum I

That was the closing ceremony, we made a little party to say "thank you" to our students to be part of our experience.

  Now, I´m excited to my new challenge, this time I have been gettig ready to work with teenagers, I have had excellent help of my teachers from the Universidad Don Bosco, but there is much more to learn and I will make my best effort!