Narrative Report of My Final Demonstration Teaching

Teaching is the concerted sharing of knowledge and experience, which is usually organized within a discipline and, more generally, the provision of stimulus to the psychological and intellectual growth of a person by another person or artifact.

In my mind telling this is it pansit, I’m almost there in my dreams, they tell me one step closer for the diploma. Final demonstration teaching is what every student teacher is the most exciting part of being student. It’s the practice in facing the reality in your dreams, this is the main highlight of their practice teaching journey. When I getting ready to enroll in 4^th year first semester, I was worried and afraid because this is it we need to face the reality and it’s exciting and nervous if we have a face to face set up or on-line learning method in demo teaching in the pandemic. When the College of Education announced that we will be deploy in a face-to-face classroom setup and I pray to have my final demo practice teaching in my alma mater Mariano Ponce National High School, I said to myself, I will do my best to have a successful and peaceful final demonstration teaching. August 31, 2022 was the initial date that we formally introduce to the school where we assign, we meet the principal first and we meet the department head of MAPEH Mrs. Rosalie Reyes and she introduced us to the teachers in MAPEH, after she assigned us individually to will be our critic teacher in our whole practice teaching and she will assigned me to Mrs. Elenita Martinez who held 5 Grade 9 students.

The first day, and the other days come it’s easy to me to adopt and get the attention of the students, when my CT tell me that I will be the one to teach in front to boost my confidence and it will be the training for me for my final demo. When the date of the final demonstration teaching is already set on November 14, 2022, I immediately inform my CT for the preparation. For my topic, my CT let me choose the topic that I want to discuss for my demonstration teaching. It was kind a hard to choose because many of my co students teacher they didn’t know what topic will give there CT. I am blessed that I can choose my own topic that I used to my final demo. Because I am a P.E. teacher, I choose sport’s officiating that is hand signal and officiating in basketball.

After I decided to which topic I will discuss and I tell it to my CT and she approved it, I immediately conduct a research, watched some of the episode of that topic in the YouTube for me to have an idea on which I should include in my final demonstration teaching. I started writing my detailed lesson plan and let my CT check my lesson plan. I start my preparation like doing my visual aids and PowerPoint presentation. I think some games that my students will be enjoyed and learn.

One week before my final teaching demonstration date I was already have my PowerPoint presentation and visual aids ready through the help of my sister. My CT tells me that I will have my dry run to the other sections and not include the section that I will use to my final demo. I nervous when, I prepared the materials that I will use for my dry run, in my mind it gone be successful, how if I can finish everything that will be needed and other things come to my mind. After the day of the dry run in the different section that we handle, I started to become worried because after 50 minutes of discussion I was not able to finish what is in my lesson plan. My CT give me some advice what I’m going to do how I can manage my time.

My CT talked to me the day before my final demo about few reminders, give me some advised, wished me luck and cheer me up that I will make it. For my last preparation before my final demo the night before the biggest challenge in every student teacher me and my sister bought some chocolates, goldilocks bread and juice for my students and it’s a simple thank gift for them and for the observer we order lasagna in La Familia. In the day of the final demonstration teaching, I went to school early to check the cover court that I conduct final demo outside the room, and set up Television and laptop and my other co student teacher help me a lot.

Demonstration Proper

November 14, 2022 is the day of my final teaching demonstration, I woke up early and check and I make sure that all my needs are arrange all the things that I need for my demo. With the help of my CT, my co student teachers and 9- Alonzo students we clean the cover court, set up the Smart TV, the white board, the visual aids that I’m going to use, the props used for the games and arrange the table of the observers. At exactly 9:20 I started my demo teaching, before we start the final demo feel nervous so I pray to by myself to guide me and finish my final demo successfully. I start my final demo and thank I didn’t forget anything and I remember anything in my lesson plan. The discussion follow went smooth, and good my students is very active and they all participating. When I was in the middle of the lesson proper, I enjoy it, I feel more confident and I don’t feel nervous anymore it just in a normal class.

In my application part, the activity is to divide the class into 4 groups. Illustrating the sequence of obstacles (skills/signals) to perform and pass through in the obstacle relay. The first and second group will be the first to play and the third group will be observer and the fourth group will be the scorer and time keeper. And they will exchange the responsibility.The procedure of the game, the group A and B will play, the group C will be the observer and group D they will be timekeeper and scorer. A and B first need to fall in line. After that when group D give a sign if the game clock will start. A and B they need to dribble the ball going to the line where the box is there. They need to get one inside the box and show to everyone what they pick and they need to act or perform the proper hand signal that they pick, and the group will check if the player act correct. After that the group C and D will be the player, group A is the observer and group B will be the scorer and timer. The two winners will be having a championship game. Every game have only 1 minute to act whatever hand signal did they pick inside the box. The fastest group and all correct doing hand signal is the winnerEach group did well and was able to meet my expectation from their performance.

After the application, I gave a 5 items true or false quiz and ended my demonstration teaching by giving assignment to the students. The last part of the final demonstration teaching was the post conference with the observers. Mrs. Rosalie Reyes the Head Teacher of MAPEH department is the first one who gave his feedback followed by Ma’am Gladys Cruz and my CT Mrs. Elenita Martinez. Some of the points to improve that I remember they mentioned the safety of the students is important and have a warm up before performing the activity under application.

Lessons or insights from the demonstration

The things that I learned that we shouldn’t give the answer immediately we need to explain more and elaborate the questions to get the students what you’ve point. We need more on the exploring the students in the discussion. Safety of the students in performing the activity, And the most important lesson that I learned was I still have a lot of things that I need to learn to become a better teacher in the future.

Acknowledgements​

First, I would like to thank God because I was able to experience a face-to-face practice

Teaching in to pandemic what we’ve facing. I also like to acknowledge and give thanks my

teaching supervisor Ma’am Gladys S. Cruz and the College of Education for all their effort in coordinating to different schools and arrange everything to make the face-to-face practice teaching possible. To Sir Erwin John F. Santos, CESE the principal for welcoming me and my co student teachers for allowing us to have practice teaching at Mariano Ponce National High School. To Mrs. Rosalie Reyes the Department Head of MAPEH my supportive cooperative teacher Mrs. Elenita Martinez. Thank you so much to my CT and other teachers for all the advises, reminders and pushing me to always do my best. And of course, to my family who always support me and always there for me when I need help.

Significant of My Experience to My Journey as a Teacher

3 months past by was very important for me as a student teacher, because of this experience I realized that being a teacher is not an easy what we’ve think. I experience the stress and at the same time the exciting and enjoyment of being a student teacher. Fulfilling and proud to my self when the students saying that they learn a lot in my discussion and when they greet me inside and outside the campus. Because of this opportunity I was able to feel that I really want to be a professional teacher someday. It’s true that the school will be our second home and as a teacher you will be the mother and the father of the students to guide them to reach their goals in the future. 2 years of pandemic we are glad batch 2022-2023 we were able to experience face-to-face practice teaching.

Note: I already asked permission to my Cooperating Teacher before uploading all the pictures to my e-portfolio.