Week 1
On my first day it was introductions to every class and then I knew that I would be handling TLE and Hele from grade 4 to 4th year high school since the school was not that big and there was only
one section per level. My Critic teacher had me observe for the first week. It was exciting to be able to interact with younger students especially those in elementary level since I had my observation in PUPQC which means I dealt with older students. It was all new to me but the first week had been so much fun!
Week 2
This week I was told that I should spend at least two days in the office. I spent Monday and Wednesday in there helping with paper works. I had helped catalog books in the library and did some typing jobs. The administrators and the principal was friendly. She had chatted with me about the things I do in school and such.
On Tuesday, I was also asked to substitute for a teacher who was absent. It was English and it wasn't that hard since they had topics and activities ready with the lesson plan. I had seen the difficulty of most students with the subject especially with their grammars and vocabulary. I had given them the activities and when we finished I made them do their reading. It was sad to see that even the high schoolers are having difficulty on such a meager task such as reading.
Week 3
This week was mostly reviews before their periodical exams so I just helped my critic teacher review students with difficulties on some subjects. Most students were doing quite well but some were failing drastically. I had tried my best to help them and I had been happy with their improvements.
I had also noticed that the students seemed to be more at ease around me and it made me happy to remove the awkwardness between us. The week was mostly hectic. This week my critic teacher had
also asked me to help on making exams. I proceeded to make some and he pointed out a few mistakes that I had.
Week 4
It's the week for their periodical exams and on Friday is their Christmas party. For their periodicals I was the one who administered the exams since my critic teacher was administering the computer hands-on. It went on for the whole week and after dismissal the students had reviews. After this week it will be Christmas vacation so everyone had just been excited and looking forward to it.
Week 5
The first week back in school and the students are buzzing with excitement sharing their Christmas vacation with their classmates. My critic teacher had asked me to help with the checking of test papers so he handled the class while I checked papers.
We had also paid attention to the parts of the exams that most students fail to answer. And I learned that not just because you are through with the exam doesn't mean lessons are to be forgotten.
We spent the class trying to make sense on topics that the students failed to understand. Week 6
This week my critic teacher was absent for a day so I had handled the class alone. I just continued the topics that we discussed and since he left me the lesson plan I didn't have any problems. We also started on the more difficult topic which is drafting.
Drafting is my CT's major so he had been the one to discuss it. Though when the students had been drawing themselves we had split the class in two so we could focus on less students. It had been so much fun and I have learned new things. I just came to the realization that I know nothing on drafting so I sat down and listened to him discussing a couple of times but he had been more than happy to show me how things are done when I don't understand them.
I could say this is the hardest topic we had done and even I got frustrated when the lines and angles aren't perfect (since I have a slight OCD and all.)
Week 7
This week we had continued the topic of drafting and for the 1st year we had begun on
bookkeeping (oh joy!). It was a hard topic to teach especially when your students are not really good in mathematical situations. So we had tried to make it easier and made a hypothetical business entity. It was harder than I thought because the students are really young and most business terms mean nothing to them.
It was quite funny that at times on the discussions the students would look like giant question marks. Then they would ask questions and laugh at how silly the solutions are.
Week 8
It had been almost the same as the past week and I am hardly stressed and I found that I'm looking forward to going to school everyday. The students had been amazing the whole time and my critic teacher had been as helpful as he could be.