The More Relaxed Week (Week date : 29 Jan – 02 Feb 2018)

 I.         My Significant Experiences

Monday, 29 January was the first day of “team-teaching week” with my cooperating teacher (Ma’am Donna). We had 3 classes on Monday, those are 9D (08:10 - 09:10 am), 9A (09:10 – 10:10 am) and 9B (02:30 – 03:30 pm).  On that day, first Ma’am Donna recalled the students about direct variation, then I explained the definition of inverse variation and gave 2 examples to solving the problems, after that Ma’am Donna gave another examples. That was my first time to teach in front of a big class, I was happy because my performance ran well. After that if I had no classes, I stayed in the library.

Tuesday and Wednesday (30 and 31 January), we gave the exercises to the students about topics inverse variation. During the empty schedule, I stayed in the attic room of SLU-LHS building with observers and practicumers (students of Saint Louis University).

On Thursday, 01 February 2018 I didn’t come to school because that was free day, they had no classes because of opening Panagbenga flower festival, and I saw the parade at Session Road with our buddies.

Picture 1. Parade opening Panagbenga Flower Festival at Session Road

On Friday, the students did the game of mathematics. Two of them role-played as the teachers and the others students made some groups with the members of 4 – 5 people. Each group prepared 15 pieces of 1/8 papers and answered the questions which given by 2 of their friends who became the teachers. There were 15 questions (5 category easy, 5 average, and 5 difficult). The procedures were: first, student teachers read the question, gave allocation time to answer and let the groups answered the question, after that all students checked together the correct answer. Me and Ma’am Donna accompanied and guided them to do the activity.

Picture 2. The students were doing the mathematics game, the 2 of them 

                   became teachers and the others made some groups

    II.            Problems Un-conferred

·      On the first day of team-teaching week, I didn’t know where I could stay if I had no schedule to teach, so I went to library of Senior High School because it was near from my student’s building, but I was alone there only with the staff of library and felt so bored and sometimes felt sleepy.

·      When I was teaching and explaining the topic, some students were excited and some of them were noisy because the time of my subject was afternoon. So maybe they felt tired and couldn’t get concentration again.

·      On Wednesday, I got missed-communication with Ma’am Donna. After first class ended, I thought that she would entering the 9D class for Homeroom time, so I went to the attic to stay and waited for the next Math schedule in 9D at 03:30 pm. Evidently, she exchanged the schedule of Homeroom and Math class. So, when I entered the 9D class at 03:30 pm they were doing the Home-room time. Actually Ma’am Donna told me already about the exchanged schedule, but I didn’t understand with that.

    II.            III.      Problems Hurdled

·       Finally I stayed in the attic because the observers told us that we could stay in the attic if we had no schedule to teach.

·   When the students were noisy, I made louder of my voice. And if they still noisy, I gave them problems of the topic to be solved then they became seriously on their work.

·       About the missed-communication with Ma’am Donna she just laughing when I met her at 03.30 pm in 9D class, I asked apologize to her and she said that no problem. Then I did the consultation of my lesson planning with Ma’am Donna and it ran well.