Joshua Muyana

WELCOME TO MY WORLD

21ST CENTURY STUDENT. Emergence of classroom instruction from teacher (traditional) to student (modern).

MY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Teaching is a kind of profession that requires a lot of dedication and patience. Dealing with students is not an easy task for every aspiring to be a better teacher. Teaching is a work of heart because if you didn’t have a lot of patience, it is hard thing to deal with. As I enter to the big dome of teaching, I am aware to various possibilities that this profession includes day to day preparing for the lesson and various task outside the classroom such as doing some paper works and attending various seminars and trainings for continuous teaching development. As I had my practice teaching, I witnessed the responsibilities that every teacher laid in their shoulders. From teaching up to eight hours straight and dealing with the students that some are hard headed, I really thought that it is not easy profession. There’s a time that they need to attend seminar outside the school that last for a weeks and even month. Of course, even it is paid by the school, the expenses required for that was coming from their own pocket. But the deep consequences of this are they need to leave their family for doing their responsibilities as an educator. All of these things happen in every teacher that I know. For the sake of their job and profession, they do it because they believe that teaching is a God-given profession. It is a mission and at the same- a vocation. Changing every student’s lives is their primary purpose and these are the reason why they enter it. And all of this make me realized that I am also one of them. The day that I decided to be a teacher, it is the day that I accept all this realities and I am sure that I can. Since then in my elementary years up to high school, I want involving in some reporting and imparting knowledge to my classmate. When our teacher is not around, I am the one who will teach the subject. I am late to realize that teaching is my passion so I decided to be an educator. Someday I see myself as a successful teacher of Social Studies- the subject that I really like since then. Now I will return the favor to my students and I will teach them the lesson of this subject to all of my strength. I will try my very best to eliminate to their minds that Social Studies is a boring subject because I strongly believe that this subject is not boring. Only the teacher who teaches is the boring one because they just doing mere story telling (though this subject is history telling). Someday I will be a successful licensed professional teacher teaching the students in our community. And I will make them realize that Social Studies is everything that they can see and also want them to appreciate and love it. Nowadays, teacher also need to have continuous education to be familiarize to various trends in education and I see myself that I will also take my master’s degree and doctoral degree in order for me to become expert in my chosen profession. I will not every be a teacher that stick to traditional way (though I will implement it for sometimes) instead I will be a modern teacher that equip with various learning pedagogy in order for me to become a flexible teacher.

DAILY SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE IN COOPERATING SCHOOL

SAMPLE OF LEARNERS WORK AND FEEDBACK

Reflection

As you enter to the arena of teaching, you need to be exposed in various school related activities such as doing reports, writing reflections & reaction papers and various projects that signify student understanding about the subject matter being discusses. There are times that students have fear in this unending g outputs that are required by the teacher. In my personal experience in my practice teaching, I saw how students’ dedication in making their outputs not only get higher grade but also it reflects their personality. In my stay here, I exposed my students in various projects, writing activities and even performance task to measure the level of their understanding about the subject matter. The first project I gave to them was a poster about Globalization. As of their submitted output, I am satisfied with their works because they exert extra efforts just to produce good output. Their outputs are quite colorful and designed properly and I think they prepared for that. Every time I am done with our discussion, I’m instructing them to write their reflection about a certain issue that is related to the topic I had discussed. I always instruct them to create a 5 paragraph essays that reflects their point of views and thoughts about a certain issue. Of course I assure that their outputs will contemplate the subject being discussed or certain issues that has relation to the topic since our subject is Contemporary Issues. It is my way to check if they able to cope up with the discussion. I saw to their outputs that they have varied ideas that they can’t express orally. I also realized that they are sounder in writing because in the discussion, few students are responding particularly to some students in lower grades. But when I gave them writing activities and output, they almost complete the five paragraph essay and this is the indicator that they have really good in writing.

Also, I gave them performance task like creating a documentary about the things that manifest globalization. Even we are located quite far from urban areas, they manage to create an awesome manifestation of globalization by simply capturing some establishments in our community. In terms of the process of creating it and to their final output, I see their potential in editing and using various applications in video editing. It is a good indicator that they are really integrating technology in their learning process. In Grade 8A which I also handled, they create a mini exhibit about Renaissance Period using only cut pictures and recyclable materials such as used paper, cartons, paste boards and cardboards. They only decorated the room that looks like an exhibit and after they prepare it, they are the one who discussed it to their classmates. I see that in their younger years, they can able to create a project like that and I see their creativity and active participation to our classroom activities.

Their works and outputs really impress me as a student teacher and it made me think that all of them have hidden talents. It is not seen sometimes because there are times that the classroom scenario is teacher-centered which the students have no chance to express themselves. And this talent (if it is developed) will greatly help them to be someone in the future. Their works reflects what kind of personality they have and in the matter of fact, they have good output and to promote fairness and justness, I graded them according to their work using a rubric that I prepared whenever they have outputs or performance task. I also witnessed that they really enjoying in dealing to the activities I gave to them because they have the chance to socialize with their classmates. Finally, my only feedback to their works are they are still very good because of their creativeness and their heart in what they are doing. And I observed that dealing with these activities are not a fear for them instead it is their way to feel belonging to the classroom by only showcasing their hidden talents that they didn’t shown in classroom teaching.