Self Assessment in Teaching

Name: RVQ

Date and time: October 31, 2008

Assess yourself in terms of:

·         Personality of teaching

·         Strategies used by teachers

o   Relationship with students

o   Relationship with superiors

o   Others in the community

·         Skills in making lesson plans

·         Questioning techniques

As a Bachelor of Arts in Language and Literature 4^th year major student, I was exposed to several practices which include making of lesson plans, Demo teachings and classroom observations in and outside of the University.

In this manner there are problems and difficulties encountered along the way, a greater patience I discovered in myself. I can therefore understand because I usually look on the positive side rather in the negative aspects of the matter.

I believe that this attitude towards teaching is very useful to be able to go with the students. Strategies are also as important as how the deliver his/her lessons, I the students find the teacher’s strategies working the goal for learning is successful.

The teacher’s relationship with the students would somehow indicate the firmness of their trust to the teacher who delivers the lesson. If the students find the teacher approachable enough and friendly, the tendency would be a freer communications for clarifications, questions and             .

This would eventually help students understand the lesson, I find myself friendly and approachable too with my students so I believe that I can handle classes like this later on. Superiors in any institution especially in an academic institutions demand respect from the inferiors like teachers and students especially. This is so because respect is one great thing they teach with students and to be able to do this they must have to show it themselves.

Showing of respect even to the least, to the poorest and to the youngest is one indication of how others would respect you as an Educator. Every teacher is entitled to prepare many lessons plans as she/he is required to compel with the need of her/his students. The efficiency of a teacher to do this is very essential because almost every night a teacher just like the students should be must make lesson plans to prepare for the next day activities. This is not an easy task though but once you love doing and you give yourself to the needs of yoyr students then you’ll find it an enjoyable thing to do.

        Making lesson plans for me is now an easy thing to do, as a teacher I need to know the lessons my students should have everyday. I have to plan them carefully so that at the end of that particular lesson there must be the learning. I can say that I am efficient in doing lesson plans because I experience preparing for it in just a whole night and even for just a couple of hours.

        Questioning techniques of teachers are truly essential in all classrooms that learning is taking place. This is because this would help teachers find their students in a genuine and spoken way. The teacher would therefore be able to assess his/her students, what they need and how far they have gone through the lesson discussed.

Learning Feedback

        Discuss what major learning you have gotten from the class?

The whole semester is in fact too short to learn everything about the craft of teaching.  Why because this profession demands a number of observation, a wide reading, a many interactions with the students and one of the greatest reasons is that teaching is lifetime learning. Everyday there are many things to learn, and the whole day is quite not enough to learn everything that day teaches.        Luckily, as an ABLL4 student I was given the chance to learn something out of the so many. These major learning are the basic, the very foundation about teaching and because of this I believe that I’ll be able                

Communication skills of a teacher

October 10, 2008

Name of the observer: RVQ

Date and time of observation: October 2-7, 2008.

Length of observation: one hour and thirty minutes

Person and event observed: ________________

Level and subject: 1^st year AHSE

Characteristics to observe: Communication skills, Questioning techniques, Classroom management, Classroom discipline and strategies.

Communication skill of a teacher is one of the important factors to consider. A teacher must have good communication ability; s/he should therefore remember that speech is an essential part of daily life. Second, the teacher must remember that speech is the process of communicating meaning from one person to another. Third, a teacher must not fail to realize that anyone of the students can become an effective communicator; communication can be in a written or oral form. According to Mrs. Mariles Aquino, she prefers the oral form as she is a speech teacher, she believes in the importance of the above mentioned qualities, in regard she never fails to consider and apply the following on her real classroom teaching. She also admitted that it is her passion to talk; she believes that in this way she can better affect the lives of her students. The observer however, agrees in it since it was sinned during the observation period. She interacts with her students clearly, she gets nearer to her students whenever she can not hear what they are saying in the same way she do this whenever the students can not hear her or she mange to repeat it all over. With her questioning techniques, is awesome because patience in her teachings is visible whenever the students fail to give her the exact o concrete definition she tries to ask another student and she does not forget to give compliments to her students by simply saying “thank you”. Classroom management is as important as disciplining the students, in addition it also entails the over all management of the classroom before the class starts she usually ask the students to pick up pieces of papers, wrappers that has been scattered on the floor, she ask to arrange the chairs properly and she proceeds immediately with the daily routines of praying afterwards she go on with the lesson proper. The direct instruction strategy is mostly observed since it was the teacher who usually provides for her students. Independent type of study is also applied since the teacher manages to give each student their individual assignments and in the ending part of the semester she gave them group activity that will include each member to participate in a one-act play. They are also tasked to make an output to showcase the playa, a portfolio or a simple album.