Week 7

My Accomplishments

For this week, I was able to execute my other rated teaching and my demo-teaching observed by my Supervising Instructor. Also for this week, I was able to control my emotional problems.

My Significant Experiences

        I was not actually ready for the demo-teaching because my schedule was supposed to be next week but then our schedule was suddenly changed without me noticing it. It was just last Tuesday afternoon when I saw it, and I was the last person who saw it because I just came from a straight teaching. So I rushed to my critic teacher and asked her to give me a lesson. And since it was already the end of lesson two and there are no other choices, I had to have the lesson on ‘collocations’. Also the time was not supposed to be 3:00-4:00 but since there are no other time slots and nobody wants to exchange, there’s again no choice for me but to go for it. It was good that my critic teacher gave me time to practice before my demo-teaching, but I don’t’ know, maybe I was not really good at that lesson so my demo was not that satisfactory. Well I just hope that it will not be a re-demo and that I can do better for the 2^nd demo when we will be at the Laboratory School.

My Insights

        There are really times that we expect something at the same time do not expect the things to happen. I learned to be more prepared than just prepared.

Problems

        My very comment during my rated demo-teaching with my critic teacher was on the art of questioning, that it should be spontaneous and has follow-up questions that will relate to the lives of the students. Next is my voice, my critic teacher said that it needs to be more modulated because it is soft. Third is that, teaching should not be a spoon-feeding the students. 

Solutions

        I will try to practice the art of questioning so that there will be no hanging ideas, also make my voice louder by practicing to speak appropriately and louder. As my critic teacher said, I will let my students be the one to explain the lesson, give examples and be the one to define the lesson for the day.

My Goals Next Week

        I’m looking forward for an improvement on my teaching skills; be mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally stable.