Weekly Journal #13: Extended Endurance

Extended Endurance

Weekly Journal #13

November 5-7, 2014

Accomplishments:

     This week, we already had our first rated demonstration teaching under Ma’am Michelle M. Magbual. Last Wednesday, she told us to have team teaching in her last three classes so we made use of our Monday and Tuesday as preparation for our team teaching. Our topic was about tongue twisters; we divided the tasks among ourselves and the demonstration teaching went good. Last Thursday, Ma’am Magbual told us to prepare for the lesson on Friday and still a continuation regarding tongue twisters. So the three of us prepared. We had the first class last Friday as our practice so we did team teaching and we started to teach individually, which is the rated one, at 11 am and so on. So we were done with the first demonstration teaching and nine more lessons to go. ^_^

Significant Experience:

     Last Friday, I had my first rated demonstration teaching. That was my first demonstration teaching and I did my very best to teach the students. Giving my best in teaching made me feel more passionate in teaching them. I also discovered that I have points to improve in teaching like for example my endurance, that despite the students are noisy, I must control my temper. Letting myself lose my temper won’t help in disciplining the students but as I taught, I had to strategize on how to get back the attention of the students.

Insights:

     A teacher must have an extended endurance in teaching.  

     The way a teacher perceives his students affects his approach and way of teaching his students.

Problems:

      I’m having a hard time in strategizing on how to discipline my class. Since it was a group activity that they had on tongue twisters, it is given that the students will make academic noise, but there were those students who were making unnecessary noise that distract the whole class.

Solution:

      Maybe I have to search on how to control the behavior of my students. One thing more is that I have to be strict in a way that discipline in class is visible.

My Goals for Next Week:

My goals for next week is to have rated demonstration teaching as much as I could.