Day 1 - It was teaching observation day. Even though the school was on leave for two days due to Haze problem. However, since the me, my other practicums colleague and lecturer, Mr. Jonathan, had planned to have teaching observation, thus, we proceed with it. I had asked the permission from Principal to allow me and my colleague to asked our students to gather for two periods lesson just for the observation.
During the post-teaching discussion with my lecturer, I am glad that there was a few positive comment from him in relation to my personality and the way I carried myself as a teacher in teaching the. There was also a few constructive feedback in relation to the type of activities that I have planned for my students, in which use exercise based on context.
Day 2 - There was no teaching or class today, so, I spent my time preparing teaching materials for the next day.
Day 3 - I asked students to exchange their comic with partner and asked them to rewrite the grammar mistake that I have checked with correct words or provide comment on the comic. I found out that this activity allowed them to focus on grammar with light reading and they did enjoyed reading each other's comic.
Day 4 - I have started to allocate the first 10 minutes of my two periods lesson for each class to do silent reading since last week. This is because I want to ensure that my students will read somethings for each week. I will be glad if they have their own reading materials outside of class time, but silent reading will ensure that everyone will have at least 20 minutes English reading time for each week. I I chose the article that they have to read. They can select different article for each time. in order to ensure that they did their reading, I have attached a paper for them to drop any comment and write their name each time they read the article. After they did their silent reading for a few times, which is since last week, my students had started to make full use of dictionary to find the meaning of any new or unfamiliar vocabulary to them and seems to able to write more to comment on the reading.
I did running dictation with 1K. I found it too burdensome for the students from 1F to wrote 5 paragraphs when I did it with them last week, thus, I reduced the requirement to 3 paragraphs for 1K.
Day 5 - I was aware that the chosen text for today's lesson have a few low frequency word and new vocabulary for them. Therefore, I have set up "vocabulary quizzes" for pre-task in today's lesson. the quizzes required students to find out the definition of the chosen word and create two sentences using that words and write it on white board. I chose the vocabulary from the text that I will use in the task part for the lesson. I found this pre-task activity to be helpful for them to do reading comprehension exercise afterwards and they are able to understand the article provided for them.
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