SURVIVING PRACTICUM

Practicum has been an enjoyable and fun experience thus far and I'm learning and improving myself to become a better teacher. At Barrackpore West,  my cooperating teachers are always helping me to improve my lessons. I'm  teaching  Social Studies,  Geography  and History so I could gain experience in all these fields. I'm learning how to deal with the students and incorporate different types of learning activities within my lessons. I distributed a biodata sheet to get to my students a little more so I could know all their learning styles, what makes them enthusiastic about learning and what makes them bored in the classroom.  

With this I was able to create activities to meet their needs and make learning fun. I know that this is not what they are accustomed too because from observing it's more chalk and talk. The students does not even get a chance to express themselves and in my lessons I give them the opportunity to discuss and express themselves. The feedback I got is that they enjoy the lesson and the group activities as well.

                                              

Practicum is almost over we are already in the second week which is going so fast. Trying to cope with all the struggles of being a teacher and trying to complete school assignments has been a challenge. With four other courses to take into consideration,  and all have assignments not just individual but group. Meeting group embers has been difficult also with the strange weather conditions that happened last week it was difficult to meet and even go to school. I was one of those who were affected by the floods. Although nothing happen to my home, I was trapped or stranded from leaving my home. I couldn't go out, all the routes were flooded out.