Entry: 10

Date: unknown

Okay, so the first group really got it hard. They were corrected even before they started the presentation and there are too many corrections to be paid attention to. Madam’s bombs started off with the correction of the completion of the lesson plan. Well, before this frankly none of us actually have any idea how to write the lesson plan right, to follow exactly what the HSP instructed us to. After the bombing session that went on for hours and almost put the class on fire (because of the hot debate between Madam Lim and us), finally at the end of the first presentation we understood what we should look at for the critique lesson plan assignment. I can say if the first group was my group I would have nervous breakdown for too many interruption during the presentation yet there was so much to learn during the presentation. I bet all the groups after that learnt a lot to improve their critique and used that to guide the assignment.

For my own critique lesson plan assignment which my partners, Shella and Anis were so nervous about, we put everything in order first before started to look at any weakness or strength of the lesson plan. We got the lesson plan from our senior friend whom used it for his practicum when we did our observation, and it actually put us into guilt to critique his lesson plan. From the observation, there are some obvious parts which we had disagreed from the beginning. First we checked the completeness of the lesson plan, which of course there was so much missing as the lesson plan did not entirely followed the HSP or easy to say not following the HSP at all. After that, the critique just seemed to go on and on with the vague feedback and less detailed description of teacher’s instruction and so on.

The presentation went well, at least not as horrible as I imagined it would be. I know my group have problems with voice projection and we annoyed our friends when they cannot hear us. Hopefully we can “shout” louder next time. It freaks me out to imagine myself writing such a detailed lesson plan every single day I am going to teach when I became a teacher. It’s not about the energy or time consuming, it’s about the effectiveness of my teaching, ideas and creativity. Too much assumption and expectation but no exact answer how and what to do.

I will work harder!!!gambateh!!