Week 4

I am starting week 3 with mixed emotions and feelings because it's the start of our demo week. We will be attending the PAFTE VIII Annual Student Teachers' Convention with the theme "Acing the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET)." Even though I have mixed feelings and emotions, I still want to do my job as a student-teacher. Demo teaching is where you will teach your students with your lesson and how you will engage and motivate your students since it's an online class. You can't explain how you feel, even though your demo schedule is too far away. For me, it doesn't mean my demo schedule is far away. I don't prepare ahead of time. When teaching my students, I need to be ready physically, mentally, and emotionally so that they can easily learn my lesson and I can deliver it well to my students.

My week 3 is all about demo teaching and attending webinars. The practice teachers are scheduled to demo this week and next week. This week, we are required to submit a video presentation, so we filmed a video presentation for the honor assembly together with the practice teachers under Ma'am Catherine. I also had my demo teaching. Before my demo teaching, a practice teacher was the first to demo. During their demo, I observed the problems they encountered, so when it was my time to demo, I noticed the issues so that I could take action. During their demo teaching, the problem that I've observed is that students are not focused on listening to the lessons. During my demo teaching, the subject that I was handling was Filipino. I already had the idea that students were not into responding to the teachers, so I kept on asking them questions and letting them read my PowerPoint presentation so that they would participate in my class. As a teacher, I need to monitor my students if they are still listening, and if I know that they are not into that subject, we must find ways that they will cooperate and participate in the class. I always asked them for examples in my demo teaching if they understood my lesson and called their attention. I can see that they know my lesson by asking for examples or their ideas. In the PAFTE webinar, I am nervous about what the speaker will present to us. I question myself if I am ready to take the licensure exam. But I am motivated by what the top notchers said to us during the webinar. I know that the board exam is the hardest part of our lives because we need to be physically, mentally, and emotionally ready. The only thing I need to do to pass the board exam is to read and read, not just read but with understanding and analysis of what I have read. These things that I have done this week will help me be ready soon.