Field Study 1

This is the first experiential course, which will immerse a future teacher to actual classroom situation and learning environment where direct observation of teaching learning episodes that focuses on the application of educational theories learned in content and pedagogy courses will be made. Observations on learner’s behavior motivation, teacher’s strategies of teaching, classroom management, and assessment in learning among others shall be given emphasis. Likewise, this course is designed to help FS students in validating the diversity among learners in the actual learning environment. It will require them to recognize feasible approaches to facilitate learning considering the learner’s different phases of development and social environment. A portfolio shall be required in the course.

This site is about my journey as an Field Study 1 student. This E- portfolio served as my reflection tool to reflect on the things that I have observed during the observation period. As a matter of fact, you will get to learn about me, my goals as I relate myself to the real world of teaching.

Meet your Practice Teacher, Teacher Wynwyn!

My ultimate goal is to change the lives of people. Studying to be a teacher is hard. All of the classes that are required, all of the practicums, and all of the time spent just to become a teacher is stressful, but the thought of being able to help just one person changes everything.

It takes one person to be a light in someone’s life. It take one person to be a helping hand. It takes one person to change an unmotivated, broken life, and make it brand new. Teachers are those people. We motivate students to do their best, we guide students to success when no one else will, and we are always available to listen. One teacher can change the lives of thousands of students. That is my motivation.

I know that after college, I will be a teacher, a guider, a counselor, and a friend to so many students. No matter how many bad days I have or how many times I want to quit, I just think of what is to come in the future. I can be that change this world needs, even if its in a small high school classroom. It just takes one person.

Do not expect much from me.

I am an echo slowly subsiding in an empty hallway. I am rarely the answer but mostly the question. I am an 11 pm sober and a 7 am drunk. I am an empty carousel. I am an unrestrained home. I am an abandoned memory and blurred vision of future. I am a slow dancer in the dark and sleeping auction of unappreciated artworks. I am the dried roses gasping for air for the last time.

I am poetry with broken lines, a poem written in twisted anagrams. I am name carved in an unrecognized tree in a wide forest. I am a long-run bridge with dead street lights. I am a prayer nobody speaks when not needed. I am a jigsaw puzzle of plain black color. I am a mess nobody wants to clean. I am a secret kept inside the closet. I am a fireworks bursting against the rain. I am the unwanted letter kept behind the drawer, a fading picture thrown up in the attic. I am a dust shoved beneath the carpet. I am a hopeless chance and a steady remorse people regret meeting. I am a too-late. I am a wrong verdict. I am a bad choice. I am a no-second-chance. I am a vacant stare. I am the discovery of error.

Do not expect much from me.

You will seek for your history in me when you’re lost but I am a torn map. You will leave your ghost in my room when you want to breakthrough without a burden but I have broken door knobs. You will look for lines you could read but I was never made to be a writer. You will look for yourself in me only to realize I am as lost as you.

• @raoislost 2022