Week 8 September 1-5, 2014 “It’s time”

Sin-ot, Myrna D.

BSED English IV

Week 8

September 1-5, 2014

“It’s time”

I. My Accomplishment

Having the rated demo was quite challenging and was a tough one in such a way that it requires a lot of preparation and self-confidence towards making it an excellent performance for the eyes of my supervising Instructor.

Tik tok! Tik tok! It’s time for me to have my rated lesson with sir Ambong. There are butterflies in my stomach and I am thinking of what will happen during my lesson but the show must go on so I gain a lot of self-confidence to start with my motivation part that is to tell a short story entitled “The other side of my dream”. I tried to be calm in presenting my lesson. It’s an achievement to have my lesson be rated without interference.

II. My Significant Experience

It was Friday in the afternoon when my students in IV- Tolerance gave me 3 pieces of delicious polvorons. I was surprised that they handed me polvorons. As a student teacher I did not expect that this would really happen because I was just their student teacher not their real teacher. I appreciate it so much.  Honestly and seriously aside, IV- Tolerance is my sweetest students among those 4 sections that I handle. They are very different than those 3 star sections that I handle. For me even though they are regular section who is very noisy still I love them because they make me feel special unlike with the star sections. Star sections are lack of initiative.

This was a very significant experience that I had because this was the very first time in my life that my students gave something to me.

III. My Insights

This week I realized that we must have to be always contented of what we have because there are more people who are less fortunate than us. Therefore we need to be thankful of what we have right now.

IV. Problems

Problems are already part of our life.  We just need to be strong enough to face them. In relation to this, the only thing that made me strike this week is the fact that I have no money for this week. My parents did not go home because they are too busy working at the farm so they did not handed me some money so I need to find a solution for this.

V. Solution

I was able to find a remedy regarding my problem. Meanwhile I asked my sister to lend me some of her money for this week.

VI. My Goal for Next Week

I need to have six lessons for the upcoming week because there are so many interruptions that are coming and so I need to make things as fast as I can to compile with all my requirements as practice teacher.

Week 7 September 22-26, 2014 “To teach to the stars”

Sin- ot, Myrna D.

BSED English IV

Week 7

September 22-26, 2014

“To teach to the stars”

I. My Accomplishment

At the very start, I was just assigned to teach one section which is the regular section. For me, both star section and regular section were just the same in terms of their preferences on the activities. Maybe the only difference is that the way they behave especially when it comes to classroom management. Regular section is noisy all the time. Moreover star section is a little bit of high perspective rather than the regular section. This is the reason why I have a fear in handling star section thinking that if I commit mistake, they are going to laugh at me and make fun of me maybe. But in the end, my notions about them were all wrong. I entered to their classroom last September 26, 2014 (Friday). It was a little bit tough but I was able to manage them and give them activities to do. They were all very active in doing their assigned task. I handled all the star section for this day. So it’s my accomplishment to teach them without having an error. I can still handle them even though some teacher said that they were all smart.

II. My Significant Experience

I did not know that my cooperating teacher will let me handle all the star section today. I did not expect it so what I did was to normally enter their classroom as if I used to enter all the time. It was an opportunity to me to have the different section for one day. I enjoyed being with them. At that time, I was able to feel that that I am really a teacher assuming that they are paying me for my job well done and an excellent service towards my students.

III. My Insights

In phonetics, there are some words that need to give emphasis like the word “salmon”. It read as salmon with letter “L” but it actually read as “samon”, silent “L”.

IV. Problem

I did not expect to have my straight teaching for one day because I was not told to do so that is why I am not prepared to have my materials with me. What am I going to do about this issue?

V. Solution

What I did was to go with the flow even though my instructional materials were not there. I just come up with plan B which is giving them an activity after I discussed the concept about getting details through information.

VI. My Goals for next week

Next week will already my rated lesson with my Supervising Instructor. I need to be brave enough to give the best that I can do, as possible as I can. All I have to do is to believe in myself in order to please my Supervising Instructor that I can really teach that I deserved to have my graduation on January.

Week 6 September 15-19, 2014 “Making it possible”

Sin-ot, Myrna D.                                                                               

BSED English IV

Week 6

September 15-19, 2014

“Making it possible”

I. Accomplishment

It was a big help for me teach every day because somehow I completed 8 lessons rather than completing only 3 lessons last week. Before, it was hard for me to deal with my students but little by little they were at least enjoying my lesson especially my activities. All of them were participating but still few more strategies to keep them more behave and be silence until the end of my lesson.

II. Momentous

Last Tuesday, September 16, 2014, I was thinking of a particular technique for me to integrate my topics which were relative pronouns to literary work. After minutes of thinking, I came up with a short inspirational story entitled “My mother with one eye”. In the application part, I planned to let them listen first to the story using music as a background of the story towards making it touching and emotional. Afternoon came, it was the time for me to execute the lesson that I planned. I was thinking that my application part will be rejected by my students but it’s not. Some of my students cried because of the story which depicts a mother with one eye who sacrifice and give her one eye to her son yet the son wanted her to just die because the son hated her for having one eye. After reading the story, they wanted me to repeat all over again. They were really touched by the story; I did not expect that some of them will have teary eyes. And also, somehow my cooperating teacher appreciated and commended my strategy. According to her it was such an excellent technique.

III. Insights

It was such a great honor that my cooperating teacher was giving me positive feedback and comments on the way I taught my students. She appreciated it so much. Moreover, she gave me pointers to remember in order to manage my class. One technique that she shared was: Do not be strict and getting angry all the time. Students are very sensitive now a day. In order to capture their hearts, try to focus your attention to them in such a way that you show them that you really care and love them sincerely. Somehow this was very helpful to me because it made it happen.

IV. Difficulties

I always think of a possible and faster solution to complete the 30 lessons as early as possible. I was counting all the days that were left. There were only 30 days left. If I will not going to teach every day I will not be able to complete the 30 lessons.

V. Solution

Maybe, the only thing that I can do to accomplish all the 30 lessons is to simply teach every day.

VI. My Goals for Next Week

I need to make things fast because October 24 is already approaching, so my goal for next week is to have the execution of my lesson every day. I know that if I will do my best then God will also do the rest. All I need is to take it as a blessing every day.

Week 5 September 8-12, 2014 “Team Hito”

Sin- ot, Myrna D.                                 

BSED English IV

Week 5

September 8-12, 2014

“Team Hito”

I. My Accomplishment

Last Monday to Wednesday, we had our scouting (BPS) held at Manuel L. Quezon Elementary School, one of the oldest school here at Baguio City. We first have our orientation before proceeding to our activities. After the orientation, we were grouped and have our group name “Hito” because we need to base our name from sea creatures. Each group are task to make their own cheer and yell, we team Hito gathered lot of lyrics and tunes to come up with a good song composition. Now, it is time for us to present our cheer and yell, we were the fourth presenter among the 13 groups. Somehow we had our practice but still, it’s not enough for us to really master the lyrics of our song and the action. As one of the member of our group, I need to do all the actions for us to win. Luckily, our wish was granted, we were one of the groups that were given red ribbon. Congratulation to us!

II. My Significant Experience

Another task that was given to us during the scouting was to design our area which is our designated corner. Honestly I hate designing things. But still, I need to contribute some effort to make our area creative so I was challenge and motivated to make any designs because of this activity. It was a nice experience to me because it enhanced m psychomotor skills.

III. My Insights

One of the scouters is an 85 years old man. He was already a grandfather but I was amazed by him because even though he is already a senior and a veteran, still his energy was on the highest level. He is a jolly and a comedian grandfather. He was the song bird of all scouters. He was the “song bird” of all the scouters He taught as many songs. Below was one of the songs that captivated me.

If you are happy If you are happy and you know it Clap your hands (2x) If you’re happy and you know it Then your life will surely SHOW IT If you are happy, and you know it ·                     Nod your head ·                     Stump your foot ·                     Say “hello” ·                     Do them all

Furthermore, I learned such important things which were the following:

·         How to perform first aid particularly to burns and wounds

·         How to read compass (The sun is at the east in the morning while at the west in the afternoon.)

·         How to read compass

·         How to measure heights

·         How to fold a flag

·         The different steps to tie and untie rope

IV. Problems

During the orientation, I’m very sleepy; I want to lean on my chair to sleep for 5 minutes. There were so many speakers and their power point presentation were brief, they were not simplified and outlined which tend us not to listen to them. Another thing was, we cannot see the letterings, and we cannot really read that information shown to us. What am I going to do to avoid being sleepy?

V. Solution

What I have done was I tried to take down some key points from their discussion. Afterwards, I tried to do my lesson planning little by little while the orientation was going on. Maybe it’s not a good thing for me to do but I really need to kill the time for me not to fall asleep, so still it is a good thing to do rather than to fall asleep in front of the lecturer.

VI. My Goals for Next Week

For three days of scouting, executions of our lesson plan at Baguio City National High School were delayed so I need to double my time in executing 4 lessons next week. I hope I can do it. I need to do my best as possible as I can.