Understand and Learn

Week No. 5

September 8-12, 2014

Understand and Learn

My Accomplishments

            I was able to have my three rated demonstrations and fortunately I got high ratings. Also, I, together with my advisory students, finished structuring my classroom. All the necessary information needed was posted and we made some decorations to beautify the classroom.

My Significant Experience

            Checking essay outputs of students for the first time was a significant experience. Through this I was able to know how good they are in writing and how they react to a given topic. For example, topics about getting high grades, fashion trends, and empowering people. Moreover, I was able to know how they think and understand how they perform in school because they related real life situations.

My Insights

            I have realized that it is not right to get mad and react negatively to students right after they made something wrong. I have to know the reason behind their actions. It would not be so easy for me to do this but I believe I could think of some more strategies to know my students more aside from essay writing. Therefore, I could say that a teacher is a researcher too.

Problem

            Most of my fourth year students do not know how to construct sentences correctly. So, I had difficulty in understanding their thoughts. I got head ache in checking. Also, there are basic concepts learned from their previous year level and yet they do not know.

Solution

            I did talk to my cooperating teacher about it and he advised me not to expect too much from them for they are in regular sections or assume that students know an idea just because they had it in their previous year level. With this, I’m quite disappointed but I am trying to apply the theory of Krashen in every lesson I will teach. It is because I want to help my students.

Goals for Next Week

            To maintain my good attendance and to have five successful rated demonstration.