Dialectical Journal for ED 335 Teaching Practicum
Date: 07.02.2017
Observations/ Account
(What Happened?)
- I did not teach more than 10 minutes.
- Students had a hard time catching up
with my words.
- They appreciate being encouraged to
come up with their own examples.
Name: Lun Sian Cing
Reflections & Critical Response
(What do I think of it? What went well? What
could be improved? How? What will I do
differently? How does this connect to the
theory I have read from class?)
- This was my first Math lesson with my
students. It took them five minutes just
to sit down and another 10-15 minutes
with the teacher for an ongoing activity
they have been doing. It was tricky for
me to chunk all my 30 minutes lesson
into 10 minutes lesson.
- I almost always forgot that I am teaching
K3, not Grade 3. My way of explaining my
lessons were too abstract for them so I
had to choose simple words.
- After explaining the lesson, I asked the
students to come up with their own Math
problems that are related to the lesson.
And surprisingly, they could do it without
the teachers help. In fact, they loved
doing it so much that we almost missed
our last minutes to do the exercise sheet.
I have learned how to make the students
have fun and make them learn at the
same time. And I also learned that I
should prepare a time-limit for them to
know when to start and when to stop.