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Another Monday… My second week as a student-teacher. Since that last Monday, there have been many times when my ST had left me alone with her class, or sent me ahead to get the class ready. 9-Calcium is still not receptive to me, but at least Gold had somewhat warmed up to me… at least I think so. Calcium forgets I’m there. Gold forgets, but someone or a couple of them reminds to greet me or say goodbye to me.

We had an activity, and I think I failed the two best students of 9-Gold when I failed to give them a ready answer. Because Ma’am de Villa’s instructions were to use the Continuum/scale map or time events map, I wasn’t certain if I could allow them to ue others, so I asked them to wait for Ma’am de Villa. I think they were disappointed. I just have to learn from my mistakes.

They say the perfect learner is not the one who doesn’t make mistakes, but the one who does and corrects them, because they are continuously learning and growing…. but I feel like all I’ve been doing lately are mistakes.

Ma’am DV said she was going to leave her classes with me tomorrow, even the Grade 10 class. I haven’t even got my Lesson Plan approved… In fact, I need to completely make a new one. She liked my movie production activity though.

In my movie production activity, I’m going to ask the students to pretend they were having a movie production. They have to make a movie poster, the image showing what best represents the story, including the names of the cast. Then they have to “sell” their movie or promote it in a commercial-like way.

Here’s something I learned from swimming last Saturday, because I almost drowned myself at the 5-ft deep part of the pool:

Don’t panic. Calm down first, then keep your chin up. You’ll be able to get through whatever hardship you’re going through.

Additional thoughts for today:

It is okay to deviate. Let the students find their own way to do things if it works better for them. Don’t constrain them to a single way.

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