Bankrupt without Love

Bankrupt without Love

Weekly Journal # 5

September 8-12, 2014

Accomplishments:

The past week, we've been through a three day training of boy scouts; it was held at Quezon Elementary School. That was from Monday to Wednesday. The training was full of lectures on how are we going to conduct ourselves as boy scouts and boy scout trainers in the future. We also gone through some hands on training like lashing, knot tying, compass reading, first aid, measuring, and flag code. I enjoyed going through those stages. Then after the training, we went back to our practice teaching. I was able to teach on the Friday about the story of “Outwitting a Crocodile”.

My Significant Experiences:

    This week, I learned a lot of morals from my experience in BSP. At the training we were grouped until our graduation. I encountered diverse personalities and abilities. We were given the chance to lead the team and when my time came to lead the team, I had struggles because I have to adjust to them. One thing I’ve learned in the grouping, we need one another in the team to accomplish our goals. Because everyone in the team cooperated and gave their best, we were able to garner three red ribbons which is the highest rank of ribbon and one yellow ribbon is the lowest.

    Another significant experience was that when we had a discussion in class about Maslow’s hierarchy. Ma’am Shirley Ayao-ao tickled our minds when she asked us if is right that physiological needs are the most important thing that a person needs. Everyone of us in the class said yes but Ma’am dis agreed and said that it should be love and belongingness that should go first. Example, a baby should belong to a family where he/she is loved and taken care of in order to survive. In, my mind, Ma’am has a point. No one can give the basic needs of a person if no one loves him or cares for him. From that, I’ve learned that love is the key to provide the basic needs of a person.

My Insights:

    As a teacher, no matter what I say, no matter what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

Problems:

    This week, I had a problem regarding the two classes I’m handling. The first class that I’ve entered, they are the kind of students that are behave, disciplined but very passive. On the other hand, the class that I enter at 1 pm are noisy but are very active in class. In the first I have problems on to motivate them to recite and share their ideas and there were also times that I don’t know what to say anymore because they are very quiet. So I’m struggling in that class; on how to make it enthusiastic. Another is that, in the class they are not allowed to speak in vernacular so some of my students don’t recite because they can’t express themselves in English.

Solution:

    As for now, I realized that I lack in strategy on how to make the class alive so I must search more on strategies on how to handle a passive class. One thing more, I need to know my students in order for me to know what kind of strategy I am going to use in their class.

My Goals for next week:

     My goals are to discover new strategies that I can adapt in my class and to be able to increase the number of my rated lesson plans.