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Week 2: Chaotic
Friday, September 25, 2020 | 9/25/2020 06:00:00 PM | 0 comments

 


The second week of my practicum was a bit chaotic for me. It was totally out of my comfort zone. The 21st of September 2020 was my first day of teaching. Nervous, anxious, scared, excited, happy, all of the feelings were mixed, again. I got to teach real kids for the first time ever. I actually did not know what and how to feel about it. Before the class started, I submitted my lesson plan to my mentor for her to check. I started the class with an ice breaking session. I introduced myself, and I asked them to introduce themselves and their friends using pronouns.  They looked so excited to get new English teacher. They were hyper and loud too. Luckily, I managed to handle them well on the first day. I decided to use pronouns in my ice breaking session mainly was because I wanted to teach Possessive Pronouns on that day. It made them more familiar with the vocabularies and ways to use it in sentences.

Every Tuesday, I had no class to teach. I usually used my free time to create lesson plans, teaching aids, and also complete my journal. On the next day, which was the 22nd of September 2020, I had to relief two classes, 1 Elit and 6 Bestari. I had no experience with

The next following day, 23rd of September 2020, I had class at 7:30A.M. until 8:30A.M. For that class, I gave worksheets to the pupils. I wanted to test their understanding on the previous lesson. The class was a bit passive that day. Maybe it was because they were still shy and afraid to talk in English to me. I had to guide them to complete the worksheets. My pupils were mostly in intermediate level and a few of them were in low level. They needed little guidance from me to answer the questions. Some of them got me to explain everything in Malay language because they did not understand English at all.  After I ended my class, I continued to create another lesson plan for the next day.

On Thursday, 24th of September 2020, I had a 30-minute class with 4 Gemilang. I was really thankful actually because my classes were mostly started at 7:30A.M. At that time, the pupils were still able to give full cooperation with the lesson. On that day, I decided to focus on listening and speaking skills. I introduced some new vocabularies to them and asked them to pronounce it correctly. I had to do pronunciation session like that multiple times because I wanted them to be comfortable to talk in English even if it was just a simple phrase or word. For the listening skill part, I just ask them to listen carefully to the song I played, and they had to sequence the lyrics correctly. Some of them managed to get all correct but some of them did not. They still needed guidance from me even though it was just sequencing. They took longer time than their friends to sequence the lyrics. After all, I still enjoyed myself guiding them. Later on that day, I had to enter year 1 Harmoni and year 6 Gemilang to substitute their teachers. Both were Bahasa Melayu class.I also entered my class, 4 Gemilang since their Science Teacher, Cikgu Ariff Ismail could not teach on that day.

It was the last day of the week, Friday, 25th of September 2020, I went to school as usual. On that day, I taught 4 Gemilang about recycling. It was a fun lesson since I got to know their opinions on recycling. Later on that day, I had to substitute Cikgu Amran in 5 Dinamik. He taught Bahasa Melayu to 5 Dinamik so I decided to assign the pupils with some activities from their activity book. 

 



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