Day 1 - It is the third week of my practicum in this school. My first day of this week started with normal routine of punch in attendance card in front of the school office. Then, I walked to the English Department room to get ready with the teaching materials and lesson plan. But, I didn't missed the chance to observe Hamiza's class in the first period in the morning. I found out that a teacher need to have loud voice to ensure that every student can hear the teacher's instruction and they can pay attention in the class. On the other notes, since it was the first teaching period in the morning, most of the student were not ready with the learning materials or probably came in late to the class as they have other stuffs to do before that such as homeroom meeting. SO, they might have missed the teacher's explanation on what they will learn in the class for that lesson. Therefore, I think it is so helpful for them if the teacher write learning intention (LI) or learning outcome (LO) on the whiteboard. LI and LO are not only to reminds student about what they will learn today but also to inform those late comers about what other are learning or will learn in the lesson.
While preparing some teaching materials for the tomorrow lesson, I had problem with printing. This is because my laptop is not connected with the department's printer for wifi printer since the technician haven't download the driver yet and they are not used to windows 8. Furthermore, I cannot used my pendrive to print it with the department computer due to virus. then, I guess the IT people should always check the school or department for antivirus to avoid any unforeseen problem. Thus, I think the technician should attend the workshop to expose them to the newest technology and always check on the department or school computer's function.
I also observed Aizat's classroom today after break time. Its good that Aizat was using hand gestures and asks them to pair up with other student from different group during pair activity. This is because those hand gesture is one of the way to attract student to look at the teacher. As student was moving to find partner from different groups, the instruction makes them moved and refresh them for the lesson.
On the other notes, we haven't heard anything about the trespassing case from police. But, we are happy to stay in the resting room for now and working on getting all information in our stolen phone and our new sim card.
Last but not least, I attended English PT3 seminar with Form 3 student. The event should start at 9 a.m, but end up start at 9.30 a.m due to the speaker came late since he cant find the school, thus cause the event to finish late. But there was certain issue came up about this such as the payment was based on the hour that he had agree on, but since the time have changed and there was no agreement beforehand about the time and payment, most teacher were concerned if the speaker will ask for additional payment. so, as a precaution for me in handling an event next time, I need to ensure that payment, time (early or late) and the venue location need to be agreed on before the event.
Day 2 - I spent my morning to prepare power point presentation for our slot during Activity Week. After tea break, I taught 1 Kazin for a period on Article and Adverbs. It was a good lesson except for I havent being able to remember all the students' name yet and I exceed the time for the lesson. I have my mentor, Kak Nani, with me in that lesson. I was so nervous having her observing me and tend to have my voice a little bit lower as well as hard to convey instruction to the student.
after that lesson, I went to observe Hamiza's class in with 2 Khazin student. I like her ideas of having quiz to test students' understanding on their Literature novel, One is One and All Alone. During the quiz, student was not allow to seat until they get correct answer. I thought that is a good idea to engage the student and to ensure that they will participate in the quiz. Other than that, unexpectedly, she had assigned student into group through their birthday for their group presentation activity. It was another good idea to group the student rather than just ask them to find their own group.
Day 3 - I don't have any lesson for today. Therefore, I spent most of my time today to complete my practicum file, ensure that I have done all lesson plan that I need to include in the file and try to do finish the power point presentation for activity week. I also had a little discussion with my mentor on my previous lesson and discuss what I should do better for the next lesson. At the end of the school time, I went to observe Aizat' class. There was technical problem since Aizat's mentor has used the week 1 timetable, instead of week 2 timetable which has cause him to enter wrong class. Therefore, i think every time I want to enter any class, I need to ensure that I have checked the timetable properly.
Day 4 - I started my day yesterday by planning the lesson, topic and theme for next week lesson. For instance, I will be teaching about Adjectives in the lesson and I was planning to have a charade game with the student using adjectives as their questions. Then, I spent most of my day to prepare the power point presentation for the activity week with Hamiza and Aizat.
After the coffee break, I went to observe Miss Nani's class for 2 periods. She was teaching about poem, "Sad I ams". I was impressed with the way that she start the lesson by asking the student to analyse a sad photo and asked the student about their sad experience and how they faced the experience. there was a good flow in her teaching since she used students' respond to explain about how the poet write the poem based on his sad feeling to overcome his sad experience and analyse the poem line by line.
Day 5 - Me and my colleague the school had Eid celebration day after coffee break. Each student was happy to wear their pretty Eid celebration dress and was so excited with the food, so do the teacher.
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