Reflection (1st week)

Slrrppp.. sambil menghirup hot steamy lemon tea, tiba-tiba rasa rajin yang membuak-buak untuk meng-update blog. Tapi, instead of writing about my bro yg ade kat cni, or kemanisan n ke-fresh-an buah honey dew yg dipos dr kg, or pasal how i'm going to spend this precious one week holiday, or pasal alya sakinah yag makin BUAS or pasal ainul fatihah yg resembles my mother day by day...... i'll write on reflection (my homework actually). Sambil tu, jom loading Shakespeare in love. 

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*This reflection thingy will contribute at least 5 out of 100 marks for my practicum. so, lets ramble!*

March 7, 2011; the first day as practicum teacher. As my friends and I showed up at the school, we headed straight to the office. We were informed that the assembly for the day has been cancelled. I was very happy to hear that because I am afraid that the teachers might call us up on stage, to introduce us to the whole school. Well, dear students, I suffer from stage fright, breathless and faint . As GPK1 gave us our schedule for teaching, I scanned through the paper. I got to teach 4IT1 and 2Bestari.

As I entered 2Bestari, I introduced myself and get started with ice-breaking session. The class cheered when they learned that I'm going to teach them English, instead of Mr.Valaitham. Why? Because they thought that I'm not going to be as strict as their previous teacher. Hopefully. There are 36 students in the class and I am having a hard time to remember every each of them. Because they are too exited, I can't control the class well. I practically, have to yell, so that my voice can out done their voices. I suffered from sore throat and head ache for the first day at school.

4IT1 was quite a challenge for me. As I introduced myself as their new teacher, the some students started to ask me to use Bahasa Melayu instead of English. "Teacher, I can't understand you!", they said. I've told them that I will speak in English because I am an English teacher, but I'll use the simple words so that they can understand. Two of my students started to protest by singing a Chinese song and completely ignored me. In the next class, I tried my best to bond with my students. We talk about the songs that we like, the places that we wanted to visits, and surprisingly, they started to open up and use English in their conversations.

I have been assigned to prepare a poem for send off ceremony of a teacher. I have trained Haikal and Amirah, form 6 students, to present a poem to Mr. Naza. I was very grateful because both of them are familiar with this area, so the training process went smoothly. I was proud with both of them as they recite the poem during the assembly and received the big claps from the teachers and students.

One week went by as I struggled to adapt with environment, 2 lesson plans per day and anticipating for the next 11 weeks. I've learned that I like to teach the students, seeing their eager faces to comprehend my lesson. However, the lack of encouragement from the principle, the head of school, really brings me down. I find it hard to adapt to the school atmosphere, where the teachers divided themselves into groups and badmouthing the others, and trying to get us on their sides. I believe, as practicum teacher, I have to keep my thought to myself, keep my mouth shut, and do the works that have been assigned. Lots of works to be exact.

Fuhhh, siap! 5 markah utuk sye for honesty. 

Tapi, itu blum masuk the exact words the principle used to described us.
okay, hint sket.
"Ckg dr Universiti x berkualiti mcm ckg maktab"
Oh really? (sile bace dgn nada mluat teramat)

Xpe, yg tu masuk entry laen.

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I need, eh have to watch this movie.

Tata

Bye-bye