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I went to school today not really sure of what to do in class. XD I forgot to ask my supervising teacher. So she told me that today was grouping, and I told her that I plan it to be something like make their own religion, since the topic for this grading period is Man and God. Then she asked me how I planned to group them, and I told her that I was going to make them count off.

She told me that that wasn’t totally random, although after seeing Gold so displeased with the outcome, I think I should have done that instead for them.

Anyway, she suggested cutting shapes and sticking them under their chairs, and I did just that–with a twist. I asked ma’am if I could leave 3 blank ones (There are 28 and I needed 5 groups) and those blank ones would be allowed to choose which group they wanted to be in. She okayed it and that was what I did for Calcium.

I wrote on the To-Do list for Calcium this:

1. Submission of Projects
2. Grouping
3. Exam

Not all of them submitted their projects. One of the groups was unable to have their project printed, and another one, the one who had the project was absent. So I told them they could email me their works but they still have to give me a hard copy.

The shapes I used for Calcium were a cross, parallelogram, circle, triangle, and a heart. What they had to do was make an -ism group name using those shapes and if they need another word, they can use another, so that they can relate it to the topic which was Man and God. I don’t remember their groupnames right now because we didn’t have time to present them in front. I wanted to get the exam papers over with so if there were corrections with checking, then the grades wouldn’t eff up tomorrow.

I planned to return their other papers as well, like the Formal Theme and Bluebooks (which I remember just now that Ma’am probably hasn’t recorded them O.O! good thing I forgot to return them) but I ran out of time (Yes, I really forgot. I forgot to allot more time for it).

Calcium was more behaved than usual today, probably because I shouted “QUIET!” really loud. They didn’t complain a lot with the new group assignments.

I had observers today as well. They needed to observe the class for their demo teaching. They’re masters students from the College of Arts and Letters. I totally forgot their existence during class. haha. They’re going to totally mess up my schedule. What’s cool though is I’m going to evaluate them when they do their demonstration teaching, which is like, cool for me, coz they’re older, they’re masters students. \o/

After Calcium, I was requested to judge a debate. I told them I wasn’t really good at that, but they told me there were criteria, so I agreed. The debate was pretty … meh… pretty stupid. The motion was “On the context of globalization, Filipino should be used as medium of instruction” and government only won because they made a better argument but overall, they lacked a lot of details and arguments. Government pointed out the need for a national identity and better understanding lead to logical and critical thinking. Opposition’s main argument was just that English would make our economy better. They didn’t have a very clear definition of globalization.

As token of being a judge, I was given a hand towel with holder. Fun!

I forgot that we had a meeting.. haha… well… My ST believes so much in me, it’s annoying. Oh well.

I realized my mistake in Calcium, so for Gold, I reordered the To-Do list.

1. Project
2. Exam and Papers
3. Grouping

And what do you know? I was able to discuss the allowances for the project, have the students go over the exam papers, distribute all the other papers, and finish grouping AND reporting!

I mentioned on another ST Day that what was good about having two classes is if you know you phailed in your first class, you could revise it to fix your booboo in your second class.

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