Wednesday, July 4, 2007
My Very First Lesson in class!!!!MY VERY FIRST LESSON IN CLASS!!!!!
Yeaah!! Today is de first day i actually conducted a class!! Was rather excited bout it as i was glad to be given the chance to have a go at real teaching even though i'm still considered untrained and not required to do teaching yet. Thanks to my maths mentor, Mr Ang, who is also part of the discipline commitee! For that day, there were some changes made to the timetable, such that we had 3 maths periods straight in a row instead of 2...haha n i was wondering if it was gd or bad cuz either i wil end up having to tink of stuff to crap wif em as time-fillers if i finish early, or it'll be good that i'll have more time to cover wat i planned to. In the end, i could finish my talking earlier than expected, so juz went thru more examples wif de kids.
The kids r actually quite fun-loving ppl though sometimes playful too, but most of em actually know when they shd get down n be serious in their work. Hope they'll continue to hav a satisfactory level of discipline instilled in em throughout life :) Young ppl wanna hav fun and hav a life too, so cant expect em to be perfect students all de time. :) Even I myself wasn't a perfect student all de time, muz admit it..hehe!! The topic i had to teach for tat day was that area formula for any polygon under de topic of coordinate geometry.. quite a tedious formula actually if u still remembered it.. so i kinda went thru it step by step, but i tot it might hav been easier for em to follow if i had given em some handouts, but that'll take more work..lol... But thankfully, majority of them generally could catch the gist of it when I walked around to check if they cld do the exercise correctly. And after that, I assigned them homework to do, and heard sighs of distress as usual...quite common lah..was wat my class did last time in sec sch oso..haha
Frankly speaking, I was feeling rather apprehensive before i started my lesson..after all, it's my VERY FIRST time teaching a lesson in a sec sch. But at least it did not make me feel as nervous as playing organ for church service...lol...but i tink it got better along the way wif more interaction wif the kids, who were thankfully, rather responsive ppl and not de quiet type of student. And i learnt that kids these days wan a tcher whom they can see more as a fren rather than a person wif authority over em..so i guess it's an art to strike a balance between being firm and being friendly and approachable to em.. it's sth i've yet to master, but wil try to wif more practice..practice makes perfect right???
The classroom's actually quite warm, and having to speak in a sufficiently audible voice most of de time under such conditions can be quite a tiring task. Hence, I now understand why my JC maths teacher was sweating while teaching...lol...and after that, was afraid tat i'll stink, so started using some perfume...and apparently, i over-used it, such that when i went to my next class, some students were like asking, "Who put perfume ar??" in chinese when i walked pass em..lol...diaoz.. ok shall stop here for now :) hope to hav more interesting stories to share as time goes by... ^_^
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Lyna