one of my unforgettable experience

Team-Teaching

Personally, one thing I can describe about my feelings on my first actual team teaching is mentally and physically tortured. Uncounted heart beat, cold perspiration, rehearsing of the things to be said, walking back and forth, shaking over my body and a nerve breaking moment while waiting for the signal to enter in the classroom and it is maybe because it is said that our assigned room is a section one class and a big doubt if I mastered my topic, my grammars, my facial expressions, gestures, and worried if everything will turn into mess and it is observable that my buddies have the same feeling the way I had.

I am just very thankful to our Cooperating Teacher that she gave us five minutes to relax, to settle everything, and to asked help to our God to give us the courage and presence of mind. I supposed she understood what we are going through. Our most awaited moment was come to pass we entered the room for she had given us the signal. Personally, upon entering the room I looked at the students, roamed my eyes to the posters posted in the wall and I saw the word SMILE which encourage me to smile even when I feel like running.

Everything runs smoothly at the start though all eyes are looking at us, observing of what we will do, grammars to correct, and especially our CT that is observing us. They loved the puzzle activities and they enjoyed it. We facilitated it together with my two buddies. But at the middle of the class the technology we used which is power point presentation can’t be seen by the learners because we don’t have projector and in that students didn’t participate well in the discussion and I observed that what have we written in our lesson plan did not meet as I expected. At the end of the class our cooperating teacher discussed of what is our strengths and weaknesses I our teaching.

In conclusion, our team teaching was a good start in preparing us to become a better and effective teacher someday. Those vicarious experiences had helped us to understand entirely our chosen profession and I realized that to become a teacher is not an easy task as what I have known. I must have the characteristics of an effective teacher, intelligent, skillful, and many other more.