Today, exactly a month has passed since I started my teaching practicum...Mostly, it has been a great experience..mixing around with the kids (sometimes, pretending to be one..:), engaging in the school's activities, getting to know new people, digging their earliest experience in teaching to comfort myself....*sigh* Teaching is great, preparing for it is a PAINFUL (!!) experience. But even dat is a new experience for me...hehe...Sometimes it turns to an exciting events (preparing worksheets, teaching aids...etc)
The teaching sessions are always a head-spinning moments since all pupils are trying to get full attention from their inexperienced teacher, so the classroom is always a battleground for me...with me as an unarmed soldier, pretending to bringing along a destructive bomb, when all I have is firecracker...:))
In the end, they do enjoy the sounds of continuous deafening firecrackers though...:)) And I enjoy firing them...:))
One thing I learned and appreciate so much when dealing with the pupils is caring...showing that we care means a lot for them (in my case). Even when they are telling me stories in a language that I sometimes trying hard to comprehend, pretending that I understand...:( They juz need someone to listen anyway. When I couldn't get what they've been telling, I made up my own stories juz to distract their attention..hehehe....
And now, I am supposed to settle my debts-finishing the lesson plans and writing the journal....and I don't know where to start...
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