Unstoppable

Weekly Journal #4

September1-5, 2014

My Accomplishments:

          During the past week, I was able to execute two rated lesson plans; lessons about the story the taximan's story. I was able to atleast somehow let the students reflect on who they are today and was able to let them discover their role as youth in this generation.The past week, I was also able to improve my voice in teaching and was able to see improvements in my performance like trying to move in the class and creating a non-threatening atmosphere for my students.

My Significant Experience: 

         I had many significant experience the past week and this one is one of my most unforgettable significant experience; my co student teacher was not really feeling well and its so happened that her cooperating teacher got absent that day. I pitied her because she was really weak and she still have classes to teach. I wanted to help her so I volunteered to teach in her class. I was feeling nervous because I was not exposed to her students so I asked her if she could accompany me to her class and she said yes. Upon arriving, I was really nervous because the students are very noisy and out of control so I thought of doing what Ma'am Shirley Ayao- ao told us that if our class is noisy, we as teachers can keep quiet and let the students notice that we are waiting for them to keep quiet. So I tried and it worked. So to cut it short, I see in the faces of the students that they enjoyed learning bibliography and it was an opportunity for me to encounter students like them. After teaching the class, my co student teacher thanked me and I believe that I was able to help her and put a smile on her face despite the pain she was going through.

Insight:

        In the teaching profession, I learned that we need to back each other up and supporting one another to build up a strong relationship with one another. As teachers, we should not keep our burdens to ourselves but instead we share it to our co teachers or mentors in order for us to be guided and in order for them to help us.

Problem:

               I had a severe fever the past week due to the pain in my throat. I can't even talk because it does hurt a lot. I was very worried because I have my demonstration teaching on Tuesday. So I drank a lot of water but still, it did not get any better. So Tuesday had come and I was really weak but thank God that my cooperating teacher recommended that I need to rest; she was very considerate and she to rest for that day so that I can teach the next morning.

Solution:

      What I did was to take a rest, take in medicine and drink a lot of water.

Goals for next week:

      Next week, I must be able to increase the number of my rated lesson plans, check the monthly journals of my students, accomplish my BSP, and do everything with a smile.:)