“Epic Rush”

WEEK NO. 15

November 17-21, 2014

“Epic Rush”

My Accomplishment 

            I consider preparing my instructional material which is a PowerPoint presentation as my accomplishment for this week. I was also given the chance to become the main facilitator for the spelling bee, essay writing, poem writing, and tongue twister competition for the GRADE 7-9 including the 4^th fourth years. Also I had my 4 rated demonstrations as my accomplishment for this week.

Moreover, I was observed the Learning Area Coordinators or LAC of the T.L.E and Religion subject in the laboratory high school. I was quite nervous when they entered the classroom and stayed there for an hour. I was also thinking what would be their comments and suggestions. Fortunately, the flow of my lesson and discussion went well because most of my students cooperated. It was a challenged for me to handle 2^nd years or Grade 8 when it comes to managing their noise inside my class and I need to adjust because of their behaviors. Unfortunately, I was quite shocked about the behaviors of students in the private school though I am aware of it most of them take their subjects for granted since I gave them a group reporting for the next day though some of them are not prepared so they asked for permission if they can continue doing it in school and my critique teacher said yes. During their reporting most of them are very eager to ask different questions for the reporters.  Moreover, I noticed that most of my students are active when I used different strategies to motivate them participate during my discussion one of that material is presenting a video clip entitled the FLOCABULARY  which is a RAP about PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES I observed that they had fun because it is within their level of interest and genre.

My Significant Experience 

            My significant experience for this week was to be able to be observed by my critique teacher and LAC of T.L.E and Religion for my 4 lessons from Monday to Thursday. At some point, this week gave me a lot of realizations since this week were full of requirements that need to be done including my rated demonstration with my supervising instructor.

 My Insights

            This week gave me a lot of realizations. Since I was able to become the main Facilitator for the different competitions I was quite reflecting what would be my life for the next months when I am already in the field of Teaching. I realized that as a teacher I must be creative, innovative, alert, and enthusiastic and possess more qualities for me to be able to touch the lives of my students. I gave “EPIC RUSH” as the title of my journal for this week because I need to do many tasks entrusted to me ahead of time for me not to be rushing during the given deadlines. As a teacher we should be dreaming, visualizing, planning, believing, and then acting for achieving targeted learning goals.  Finally, to sum it up “We don’t know it but the little things you give have the biggest effect in the LIFE of your STUDENTS.

My Problem 

The problem that I encountered this week is classroom management. I was quite difficult for me to manage their noise since it was my first time to enter their class since we handle different sections per day but I will think of the best strategy which will be very effective to them.

 My Solution

            I asked for some strategies that my critique teacher used all the time and I will try to imitate and integrate it in my class in a unique way. I also look for the best strategies that I can use in their class.

Goals for next week  

I will immediately approach my critique teacher and ask for a lesson to teach. Since, I know that I do not have enough time given to be able to finish 10 lesson plans with execution so I need to teach every other day. I still need to teach 3 lessons to be rated by my critique teacher because they will not be having lessons for next week until the end of November because of the celebration of the ENGLISH month.