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August 28th 2007
For the first time, I lectured. Usually, it’s a discussion, according to my supervising teacher’s instructions. She said, as much as possible, I shouldn’t lecture, but since the lesson was something they don’t have reading materials of, nor were they told to read anything about it, I lectured. My fellow Grade 9 student teacher, Justin, lectures all the time. Mine is always focused on a discussion, drawing from them the contents of the lesson.

Calcium was at it again today, as usual. They were almost 30 minutes late, and they weren’t paying attention during the lecture. Halfway through, I told them that I’m going to give a quiz on the lecture on Thursday. Did that shut them up? Of course!!!…. not. That’s not my problem anymore though. Even without me telling them that I’m going to give a quiz, they should be listening–quiz or no quiz.
For Gold, I planned to push through what I originally planned. Give the lecture then have an activity of connecting events with each other. But my ST told me to have them evaluate their group members about the group project. I didn’t want to do it, since a group work is a group work. The group grade should just be one, but she said the members should have their point allotment as well, since not everyone worked on it anyway. That took about 15 minutes. Then they asked me if they could practice in front of me for their Filipino, I asked them to choose, whether to have a quiz on Thursday but they could practice in my class, or no practice and no quiz on Thursday and have the activity. They said they wanted to practice and they’ll just take a quiz on Thursday. I told them to listen carefully and not to be quiet…

Ah the joys of high school. Of course they weren’t that quiet. I knew that some weren’t paying attention either. I wasn’t able to finish fast enough, because some wanted me to repeat things over and over again. I sometimes had to explain it in Tagalog. I couldn’t take out the question and answer parts since some students like Dancel, the class’ wondergirl, itches to share something. So with about 20 minutes left, they didn’t want to practice anymore. The quiz will still continue tomorrow though.

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