final journal of the 3 week block

Bonjoor !(< - >)! everyone finally we come to the end of our TP, hope you all had very good and useful experience. Basically I am feeling ok, but in the same time little bit disappointed although I tried so hard to communicate with my MST but it didn’t work. However, I accomplished my mains witch are finishing the ICT project in 20 minutes and the display.

This week I had to work in different classroom and the whole experience was totally awesome because I managed to establish good relationship with the new MST, the TA and the children. The big surprise was that I some of the children already recognized me because of the RWI session. Some of them hugged me while others peek from my old classroom and come to greet me and ask when they will finish the ICT booklet; therefore I had to tell them to go back to their classroom. Although the atmosphere wasn't pleasant I had to work more effectively and show my best only for the sake of the children. I have seen different session of the RWI and to be honest with you all it was life full the techniques that the MST implemented was completely new and interesting, and I wished if I had to teach in this classroom at the beginning of my TP. Because this MST made sure to let me join with her and interact with the children  while she implement this sessions which shows to me that she want to share  and give lots of useful things to me. It makes me feel appreciated and more than welcome to work in that environment. According to my observations this MST always tries to include other aspects of teaching methods no mater it is a math session or a WRI session witch reinforce good learning all the time.  There are some wonderful strategy that I haven’t seen in my previous class room, the MST  always encourage children to choose their partners to work and in the same time she remind them all the rules of how to show respect to each other with listening making eyes contact and taking turn while sharing and discussing the right answer. Moreover, she made sure to value children point of view, ask them to be honest when she ask any question that is related to their learning process with giving them sensible explanation.  The best thing she give the children a chance to make their own decision and she relates her personal experience to motivate other children who feels shy to overcome their fears to involve in any difficult activities.    Although the circumstances that I have been throe lately effected my self steam  and made me feel that I am not welcomed in that classroom, I determined my mind  to act professionally with a smile no mater that challenges that been made for me on purposes, therefore I  accomplish my ICT project as well as the display successfully witch the children appreciated the most. I did established good relationship with my new MST miss Lynn and Jenny. Moreover, I had wonderful communication with children parents and the best thing was they appreciated my effort with their children who mentioned me at home.   Furthermore, I had a situation were the children kept saying that they feel sleepy while the RWI session therefore I suggested to play the treasure hunt of some sound such as (ee) (oo) (hg) (ow) , so we went out side and enjoyed finding the sound and the letters. There was a huge infuses on developing good relationship and working collaboratively in a small group, also huge effort on reinforcing good behavior and manures in the class room witch makes the environment full of positive energy. The new MST that I had to work with was the good example of humble Hume been and perfect teacher, that I wished to work with from the beginning of my TP. But we cant get everything that we wish for therefore as a student teacher I tried my best to deal explicitly with all kind of situation in very calm and flexible way no matter how bad the circumstances that I faced. As a professional teacher we have to understand another need and try to improve each others skills, teaching it all about sharing new techniques and experiences with each other to promote good learning. Because children are our responsibilities and teachers should make sure to fulfill their learning interest. By preventing the children to interact with the display that they have been working on, really disappointed their expectation because they already told their parents about it and were very excited about it. In my point of view this attitude showed that their work is not been valued and owner. In this 3 days I experienced and learnt lots of useful things, I always ask my self how my relationship worked out successfully with those new MST were they really supported me appreciated my effort in every single step. And why my MST didn’t appreciated my single effort how could she ignore it no matter how hard I worked. I start to ask myself Am I difficult person to deal with? I strongly believe that no matter how perfectionist we are as a teacher we should accept the fact there will be some one better than us and adapting new ideas and trying to make improvement in our self is the solution to over come any problems.  Because we are important part of the society and the community and it is our responsibility to educate the children with the best methods.

2nd 3 week blocks

Ohayoo my class mates how are you? I hope this week TP went well. In these 2 days I had to do 4 days job which was really fun and stressful, However thing with me went seemed to work as my expectations but somehow it wasn’t. Still I am hoping of getting the best out of this TP just wish me luck. (0-^)

I have done most of the duties that the teacher does on a regular teaching day, but this time I was stressed because I had to prepare the activities for the RW inc session as well as the preparing displays activities. Also I had to complete the ICT assignment project with my group. Moreover, I was concern about managing the times to spent between fixing the display , attending the urgent teachers meeting for the national day and reading the stories for all the children. Also I had implemented music and movment session with the children after reading story that is related to it and you wont belive how they all had fun as well as myself  witch was really fun.

This week I had the responsibility of mentoring children in the playground, since my last TP  experience in this school I haven’t seen a single teacher interacting and supporting the children while playing, therefore I made up my mind and I pup up playing with the children encouraging them to climb up the equipments that they get away off most of the time. To be frank girls this is a great way that you can lived and remember you childhood where you can share with the children your instant adventures experience in the same time they can learn a lot out of you because you are being the role model and inspiring them to be adventurist which I enjoy the most.  while that one of the girls fall down and she bumped her head on the ground thank god , once again my emergency responder course helped me, and the great the teachers were really impressed. Also I have seen some children pulling off the flowers from the bushes there for I had to explain that their behavior is unexpected we need to treat the mother nature kindly, after that I had to talk to miss jenny so we took the children in the rainbow room to explain how does it feels when we treat the nature in unreceptive way, so we demonstrated all their bad behavior with one of the children and pretended that this child is the tree and when we pull any part of our body we can heart it so later  they linked to their personal experience and promised to treat the nature kindly. This live demonstration and the open conversation are really effective because through it teacher can break the wall of fears from children’s heart were they feel that their social interaction and thoughts are being valued and appreciated, in the same time all of them are getting and sharing useful information which will help them to develop their thinking perspective.

Basically the activities that I prepared for the RWI, numeracy and the display went really very well and the children seems to enjoy it the most specially reading stories and acting it out as well as dancing. Therefore, some children such as Nour came and hugged me in front of the MST and her mum, she told me that she will miss me the most because she will soon leave the UAE and go back to Lebanon. Also Hasan make sure to bring his mum to talk about him before the school end and Iv received positive comments from her toward me attitude and how his child had progress. Moreover, Yahya kept telling me that I am the best teacher that he ever had. Although after tying so hard to communicate with my MST there is always something wrong, she tries to pick on me I don’t know why.  

teacher should act and behave professionally and the most important thing is to give other people chance to listen others point of view and think about how to make changes in their life, no mater how perfect they pretend to be. As a matter of fact we all are different and I strongly believe that each one is especial and have unique quality ,the best thing is to work collaboratively to achieve the best and influence other were we inspire them to learn help in the process of the community.  so best of luck to all of you girl and try to work and enjoy every moment of the final TP. Remember keep smiling no mater how desperate you are and keep thinking positively good luck(>-~)

1st 3 week blocks

Hi girls hope you all had a nice TP, this week really went so quick and somehow it was really stressful for me but the best part was the children were cooperative and they always made me smile although sometime my MST treat me in unfairly, to be honest with you all I am just counting the days so these 3 week block finishes. But till I promised myself to show my MST how determine I am toward my responsibilities ,no matter of the challenges I will face I will be positive and behave in a professional way (! - !)

Basically my best experience was visiting the Mushrif  park with the children and hunt for the different kinds of houses all around the park, in the bus I had to remind the children of the safety rules and then we wear all singing song such as the wheel on the bus goes round, also 12345 once I caught a fish. Moreover, my main focus was to accomplish my display and enjoy all the process of making it. Moreover I have attended the teachers meeting to help out in the national day event and the good thing was most of the teacher were impressed with the idea of explaining our flag color. Also I managed to work on my ICT survey with group of children and finally 6 of them love Ben 10 therefore next week I will do the searching on the internet to get some pictures of Ben 10.

This week I did communicate with lots of parents and some of the children were offecialy introducing me to them there for after talking with my MST I got the permission of explaining for the parents about the ICT project ans explaining the purpuss of implementing it with their children, the best comment that I have recived from some parent was that their children were mensioning me and they talk about me with their parents in a positive way, this really make me strong and be patient to tolerance my MST s negative attitude.

This week TP wasn’t good enough I had to face lots of ups and downs while interacting with my MST but still I have to think positive and keep smiling trying to work and think above her expectations, to be honest with you all my this MST is not flexible at all however the TA is wonderful who always shows interest in my work and from time to time she make sure to give me useful suggestions witch I love the most about her. As a teacher it is very important to support new student try to be flexible and communicate clearly. Hope when I will be teacher I wont treat my Student teacher in this way because my main concern will be to make the my student teacher the best teacher that work and think professionally with all sort of people in respective way. Still for next week I will be positive work harder and try to show my best in a professional way , hope the MST will be cooperative the next week.