My Teaching Internship Portfolio

"Describe your practice teaching internship journey in one word," our cooperating school principal asked. With no hesitation, I said, "exhausting yet fulfilling." As expected, he wondered why. I answered, "because I had to sleep three hours only every day yet survived and getting able to get things done according to as I planned." "You reap what you sow. It is the sacrifice you put into throughout the journey to achieve your goal here", he responded.

Welcome to my E-portfolio!

I am Rhoda P. Paler, a fourth-year Bachelor of Culture and Arts Education student at Visayas State University. Who would have thought that a mere student like me could find the purpose to go through and surpass the total of 360 hours of learning and thriving in an online and face-to-face setup in the practice teaching program.

One of the most significant opportunities that any beginning educator would be getting a chance to apply the knowledge and abilities acquired throughout studying in the four-year teaching education program is through the student teaching internship, which I did last March-May 2022. A student intern will gain the pedagogical skills to link theory, practice, and teaching professionally through and at the end of this program. Moreover, this training broadens one's knowledge, abilities, and attitudes through hands-on experiences working with students; strong connections built by sharing supervision and expertise provided by the collaborating teacher and internship supervisor; and the relationships developed with my students and peers—co-student interns. Furthermore, this practice envisions that evaluating one's strengths and weaknesses is also beneficial, as is correcting the latter in preparation for a future teaching career because a teacher is meant to change the students' lives positively.

My progress as a practicing teacher throughout the online and face-to-face internship semester is recorded and documented. It compiled the collection of evidence I gathered while serving as a student intern for the designated cooperating institutions to show my results, accomplishments, and growth/progress in my talents. It contains information about myself, a prayer for my internship, my weekly reflective journals, PPST domain reflections, lesson plans, instructional materials, and my teaching philosophy, along with supporting documentation and photos that prove the acquisition of this experience.

In this portfolio, you will see that I have put meaningful and intentional time and effort into learning progressively with the students and using various cooperating schools' learning techniques and strategies for effective and efficient teaching and learning process. This memoir details my struggles and hard work in bringing out the best in myself and reaping the rewards of my labor. I hope the compilation will help me keep track of and refocus my thoughts on the goal, vision, and mission; I should bring to my job as a future teacher.