As part of my teaching practice experience at Ateneo de Naga Senior High School, I was assigned to create a lesson plan for my demo teaching activity. The lesson I prepared was making a resume for college application and I also included some cultural aspects which was differentiation of resume styles between Indonesia and Philippines at the end of explanation. During the preparation process, I received guidance from the Head Cooperating Teacher, who helped me understand how to arrange a lesson plan more effectively and give guidance when creating power points slides. Through this experience, I learned the importance of designing lessons that fit students’ needs and create a more engaging classroom environment. Even though lesson planning in the Philippines has many similarities with the system in Indonesia, I noticed several differences in the format and structure used in the classroom. One thing that stood out to me was the use of the Follow CAP approach, which focuses on cognitive, affective, and psychomotor aspects when writing learning objectives. The lesson plan also contains specific sections such as topic, learning objectives, learning content, pre-lectio, lectio, reflection, action, and evaluation. By learning this format, I gained a better understanding of how teachers organize their lessons in a clear and structured way. This experience helped me improve my teaching preparation skills and taught me how to create lessons that are more interactive and suitable for students’ learning needs.
Here's I drop brief description of my lesson plan in developing the learning materials and my PowerPoint slides presentation during my teaching
First, after I received the learning topic from my coordinator teacher, I started making a lesson plan focused on "Resume for College Application" for reading and writing subject. The teaching activity running for 1.5 hours per-meeting. In this plan, I structured three learning objectives, which are:
Helping students define a resume and understand its purpose in college applications
Identify the basic parts of a college resume
Ultimately write their own resume for college application
To make the discussion engaging and encourage students' critical thinking I incorporated a mini intercultural resume comparison between Indonesia and Filipino resume formats, this giving students a broader perspective on how resume conventions may vary across countries. To make the classroom feel interactive, I design the learning activity that open with thought-provoking motive questions about their future university plans, reason why resume important for college applications, followed by an individual activity where students analyze two student profiles and decide which one is more suitable and realistic for a college resume to encourage critical thinking and honesty in self-presentations. The discussion then moves into resume writing tips, common mistakes, and do's and don'ts before students draft their own resume outline as a wwriting task. Feedback and revision are built into the evaluation process, ensuring that by the end of the lesson, each students has a solid, honest, and well-structured for their college application.