Term 3, 2020 (Week 8)
This week is a very interesting week where I was using the Bluetooth speaker to play the song entitled Te burawa, te tioka kamna rook ningai by Francis Toto to connect students’ idea with the new topic that was about to introduce which is the impact of imported food to our health. As I was playing the music, students listening carefully as there are questions they are going to answer after listening. From there it really attracts their attention.
Similarly, this is also the week where I assigned by the admin to conduct the oral interview with some students, for me this is very challenging as it is my first time doing this, I was so nervous but I was trying to accept this challenge as it is another way to improve my profession as a trainee teacher. It is good that it gave me a chance to determine students’ performances from their speaking in both the Kiribati and the English language. This is also a week where our HOD in Mathematics conducts our ALT meeting. This is the most crucial parts in developing my profession as a teacher where I learned that ALT meeting is where us teachers our time to share our weaknesses and strengths in the learning process and also our time to seek advices for improvement.
However, within this week, I got a chance to help my associate teachers to make an exam paper, this is also the time where my Mathematics, Health&PE and social science teacher gave me a chance to do a blue print for our exam paper. It was a great pleasure for me to do it as it a chance for me to recall what I have learnt from KTC, gladly it is successful and my confident in doing it slightly developed
Finally, I have learned that supervising students during assessment on is very important to me because it is a time to identify how capable they are as they do it without looking their mathematics and social science notes and how smart they were when they finished early. This final assessment is very useful for students to feel valued and cared by their teachers in terms of accommodating their disability. But on the other hand this exam simply allows all students to recall what they have learned so far in order to depict which areas, they still having a problem with, so that teachers could address those problems and another thing is that, all students were participated during the test as no one left behind.