Teaching Practice

For practice teaching in USHS:

        Mathematics subjects at University Science High School are taught in one hour or 60 minutes per meeting. Three main parts of the lesson such as introduction, main activities, and closing must be well planned. The teacher must be smart in planning lessons and activities in the classroom. The teacher must be able to read the situation in class because there will be many possibilities happening by students. sometimes, there are some students who are bored or may show their bad behavior and the teacher must be prepared to solve the problem.

On Monday, we always start with the flag ceremony. But last week we did not attend it because there’re a hero’s day and all of the students are free (holiday). My cooperating teacher is Ma’am Joanne Saplaco Dizon, she has always faithfully guided me in preparing lesson plans and learning media for mathematics. Of course, learning focuses on student centers. In addition, I also had to make observations in class 7 (Mr. Jordan) for three times. Both teachers are very good and smart.

In my first practice teaching, I am very nervous and afraid but my cooperating teacher always supports me. My class starts at 7.30 a.m. Ma’am Joanne accompany and observing me when I was teaching. First, I taught 9th grade in Examiners Class and Developers Class. I continue the next chapter, which is about the midsegment of a triangle. I use powerpoint and GeoGebra Apps as my learning media. I get satisfaction when I teach a concept in a way that my students may understand and show me how well they have learned. In class, I always try to use many strategies to reach school goals which making them understanding. It was a very extraordinary experience to be a good teacher.