Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Day 2 in class...DAY 2 IN CLASS....
This is day 2 teaching maths now! Had only 1 period wif de kids today. What I mainly did was go thru their homework qns wif em to reinforce on wat they hav learnt, assuming that they've actually tried their HW beforehand at home...which i realised was an assumption that cannot be lightly made..lol...most of em who diligently tried de HW beforehand generally had not much problems wif it.
But today, my mentor actually left me on my own in class to teach de kids!! i was a little surprised at first..lol.. tot tat he wld stay in a few more times first b4 letting me run the show on my own...haha.. But nevertheless, the absence of my mentor allowed me to experience wat real teaching is like. It exposed me to reality of having to handle a class, to get em to pay attention, to test whether they've understood, all on my own without any external help.
I have 2 more topics to teach to de kids within abt 1.5 weeks' time, hopefully i can finish on time.. and feel tat i've got to start preparing more interesting materials for the kids, if not, they might start to find me boring..hehe...for maths i find it quite inconvenient to teach using computer and IT..it's unlike other science subjects like chemistry & physics which allow more room for creativity...personally, i've never ever been taught maths using computers or powerpoint in schs b4..lol...everything was mainly done on de board, if not on transparency.. n i feel tat de board is better as i can write stuff as and when i wan conveniently..harder to do tat on com unless its a tablet, which i'm nt familiar wif yet oso.. so probably hav to work on producing some handouts wif interesting stuff on it to gain their attention and interest in studying..so tat as i go thru de lesson, they can write it down oso instead of juz listening to me n getting distracted wif wandering thoughts after sometime. That wil mean MORE WORK TO DO!! hahahaha so i'd better get started at it now..haha till next time, cya!!! ;)
11:54 AM
Lyna