Week 15 November 17-22, 2014 “The 10 Lessons”

Week 15

November 17-22, 2014

“The 10 Lessons”

I. My Accomplishment

I never thought that I would finish my 10 lessons as early as it was finished last week. Maybe because, we handle 2 levels such as the third year and the fourth year that is why we easily get 2 lessons per day that made me finish my 10 lessons here in private school. One advantage of handling third year and fourth year was we are given the chance to take two lessons a day.

As a continuation about my accomplishment this week was, when it comes to the papers that I must have to check and record. I also finished them in order to complete my class record in which I must have to submit to my CT. Completing my 1o lessons made me realize that doing all these requirements is not just finishing for the sake of graduating but a must to become the best teacher in the future to teach the young minds.

II. My Significant Experience

We are going home waiting for a jitney together with my friends. While waiting, I saw one of my students being with her friends. My thought at the time was she will ignore me as her student teacher especially that student here in private refuse their teacher by not greeting them, so how much more with us as their student teacher, we are just their student teacher. And so for them we are not valued, I really feel it unlike with the public school students; they are very appreciative in terms of showing how they are thankful to have us as their practice teacher to them. But, back with my story, I did not expect that she say “hello’” to me. That simple “hello’ made me feel that I am really a teacher to them. At least out of my 200 students, I have still one student who shows appreciation to what I am doing to them.

III. My Insights

During my lesson on phonetics, I really learned a lot of things such as we had the common mispronounced words. These were cupboard, scarce, vineyard, martyr, viscount and depot. In order to correct not just my students but me myself as their teacher I had list down guides for me to follow.

Moreover, after phonetics I also had the spelling bee in my class in which during the time of researching some list of words. I had learned that the commonly misspelled words were beginning, occasion, tomorrow, tongue, receive, bizarre and accommodation. Therefore, we need to be just being careful of these letters which are double or single. As an English teacher I must avoid this confusion to happen.

IV. Problems

Actually, it was not really a problem but I take it as a problem especially that I have something to improve. My CT was a very kind person in such a way that every time we ask a favour to her, she always give it to us, but the only thing that caught my attention was she does not give any feedback  in times that we are done teaching to a particular classroom. How can we know my mistakes if she does not give any comments and suggestions after we teach?

V. Solutions

Maybe, it’s her own way of challenging us, even though she does not tell something to us, what she think is we know how to improve ourselves without telling things to us. We must know it on our own without telling anything to us.

VI. My Goal for Net Week

 I need to help my CT in teaching the sections that she handles. I know that this will be an opportunity to me to teach more lessons in order to impart inspirational messages to my students. It is also a privilege to teach more lessons even though I was finished already because I know that my students are not only the one who are learning but me myself. I am really learning from them.