DAY 1 (TEACHING EXPERIENCE)

GENERAL INFORMATION

Subject             : General Science

Topic                : Chromosome and Cell Cycle

Grade & Section : Grade 8 Guyabano (special section of art)

Date                  : January 22, 2019

Time                 : 1.45-2.45 PM (Grade 8 Guyabano)

TEACHING ACTIVITY

   This is first section that I teach. Mrs. Eligia R. Romares, my CT (Cooperating Teacher) has given me permission to use the LCD Projector to make the class discussion more effective.

   To begin the discussion, I gave them a guessing game for motivation game. The guessing game that I gave them is actually simple, but works effectively to gain their attention. The goal of this game was to attract student attention, encourage them in learning and introduce them to today’s topic. This game is just like the crossword game. All they need to do is just to guess what secret letter in each blank box that I gave them based on the given letters as clue. For example, I used the word “CHOROMOSOME” and “INTERPHASE” as the secret words that they need to uncover, because these word are related to our today’s topic. 

The word “CHROMOSOME” that student need to uncover based on several given letters as clue.

    The classroom discussion has running so well. As I expected, the motivation game that I gave them is effective to introduce them about today’s topic and act as a bridge between present and previous topic. During the discussion, I also gave them several HOTs question and analogy clue for every HOTs question. For example, I gave them a question “without beads of string, what will happen to the chromosome?”, then I showed to them a picture of a hank of thread as analogy of bead of string function in to hold the solid structure of chromosome. I found the students were really enjoy the question I gave them and they were highly participate on the discussion, trying to solve the HOTs question that I gave based on picture analogy.

Student really participated on the topic of the discussion

    The classroom discussion end a head of time, so I have about 10 minutes to gave them short evaluation for today’s topics. The result was amazed me, because in general, they have a very good score and several of them reached the highest score.

    The Grade 8 Guyabano is one of many special sections in DCNHS (Davao City National High School). Their performance and attention met my expectation.

RESULT AND IMPROVEMENT

    There are several commentaries that my CT, including the things that I need to keep and improve for next teaching practice. My CT noticed that I don’t directly show the goal of discussion the student, and also she also told me that it is important to avoid saying “NO” to respond the wrong answer given by the student, because it will degrade student’s motivation to learn something. These are the things that I need to change and improve for the next occasion. My CT also pleased by my performance in mastering and delivering the topic, keeping on asking HOTs question, giving simple analogy, giving positive reinforcement, and class and time management. 

Having consultation with maam Romares, my CT

MISSCELANEOUS

• I found that the number of student in Grade 8 Guyabano is huge compare to number of student in a common classroom in public school in Indonesia
• The teacher allow the student to change their uniform into t-shirt in the afternoon so they still feel comfortable during afternoon class

    These are several words I learned during encountered with the student in the classroom. Several words below is not Tagalog, but in Bisaya/Cebuano (common dialect used in Davao City). I have marked the Bisaya/Cebuano words with asterix (*).

• Balik-balik (come back)
• Eroplano (aeroplane)
• Ganda (beauty)
• Maka (for)
• Magandang umaga (good morning)
• Magandang hapon (good afternoon)
• Maayo* (good)
• Maayong buntag* (good morning)
• Maayong hapon (good afternoon)

DOCUMENTS

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