This blog was created for students teachers to reflect on their teaching experience at school and share this experience with one another. As each shares and collaborates on best practices, successes as well as mistakes in teaching ESL, it is hoped that student teachers will benefit from such collaborative reflections on this blog platform and continue to appreciate the use of such a platform for further collaborations even after Teaching Practice.

Monday 15 October 2012

Wang Siting’s Third Reflection



Hello, everyone.
How is the teaching? This is the sixth week of our practicum. I am sure that each of us has gained the useful experience. We not only get to know the students but also know ourselves better. During this period, we focused on how to teach and considered what materials could be properly used in the classroom. The ultimate goal is to attract students’ attention so that it can help increase their interest in learning English. What I found these days was that students like colorful things in their learning process and they like crosswords very much. So, providing more visual aids or crosswords in our teaching could be a useful way to help students gain knowledge.

My supervisor and mentor have respectively observed me once. They all gave me so many helpful suggestions. My supervisor, Dr. Nanic, suggested me that I should try to attract students’ attention immediately at the beginning of the lesson. Besides that, she also advised me that it is always better to ask students to guess the meaning of the words instead of explaining the vocabulary directly. My mentor suggested me giving one or more challenging questions to the students, even though you know students’ level is not so high. I will improve my lesson based on their advice in the future.

Things will not always smooth sailing. It always has various difficulties we have to face. During the teaching, I felt frustrated sometimes and questioned myself. The things you fully prepared students may not feel interested; the lessons may not be conducted ideally. But, to the bright side, we can find our shortages in this way. It helps us be stronger and stronger. The shortages make us depressed; however, it makes us grow at the same time. Make our spiritual world more powerful.
Besides that, students’ final exam has started already. My job is to monitor the examination (Form 2 students). When I looked at them, it made me recall my schooltime. Truthfully, hope my students can do well in their exam.

After the exam, I have to continue my teaching task for two more weeks. Hope that I could be better than before. Also, all the best, my friends.


Sincerely,
Wang Siting

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