Derya's Teaching Blog

3A) MY CHALLENGES / AIMS FOR THE FUTURE  What are the areas I still have to work on? What is my action plan? What / who will help me to achieve my goals? As I said in my previous posts, I am shy and of course it affects my behavior in the  classroom. I would like to work on it and learn how to keep my classes disciplined without losing control. For that skill I should have more confidence, which I think will come my practice and after sometime. By observing, getting feedback and applying some modifications I think I will succeed.  Moreover, having a confident and strong voice can help to maintain the classroom management (which is another area, that I should work on) At the beginning of the practice I was so scared that students wont listen to me, because I am too shy and too kind that I am afraid to offend my students, yes, a bit of confidence will come by more practice, hopefully. 3B) FINAL CONCLUSIONS  What went well? What am I particularly proud of? Would I do so...

  Student Practice Reflection - Self-Evaluation 2 2A) ATTITUDE TOWARDS PUPILS  Can I maintain classroom discipline? Am I respectful and kind towards all pupils? Do I correctly recognize and assess pupils’ skills and needs? Do I differentiate instruction according to pupils’ individual profiles? As it is only the beginning of my journey, I think I have to learn more about maintaining the classroom discipline, because it is hard form me to grab heir attention after I lost the control. However, I must learn some ideas that can get their attention back and it will come by experience. I think I was respectful and kind, at least tried to be, no matter which student it was, because there was a boy who offered me money (yeah,he is only 1st grade) for showing him the answers of the exercises XD. I think my practice helped me a lot to understand and recognize their abilities , especially observing was the essential part of it, of course not that long but enough to remember most of their...

 Student Practice Reflection - Self-Evaluation 1 1A) MY POTENTIAL AS A TEACHER  My professional attitude. Am I interested in entering the teaching profession? What are my attempts to perform competently? Am I creative and flexible? Am I mature enough to work in this profession? (work under pressure, accepting criticism, being open to others’ needs) I think student practice made me more confident in the classroom environment. At the beginning I was afraid to enter the class and shy. I was thinking how I am going to work with 1st graders if I do not have any experience with teaching at all. However, after finishing, now I realize that I got a huge piece of experience, which is making me a bit more confident in this journey. By observing the lessons and conducting them I have pinned my theoretical knowledge through practice. Each day I was worried and had stomachache before each lesson .. Everything was not as scary as I thought and I became more relaxed in the classroom environm...