In another 14 days, I will embark on my practicum journey! Really worried and unsure of how it will be =( Have heard stories of people failing practicum and also heard people who were so stressed that they cried) ... Practicum is probably the hardest 'module' throughtout the whole NIE course. Not only do you have to prepare detailed lesson plans (of course when you become a full pledged teacher, you will still need to do this), lesson materials and the worst part is lesson observation!
After attending the practicum briefing made me even more worried..... there will be 10 lesson observations!! For those of you who does not know what is lesson observation, it is actually a lesson that you are teaching and you have 1 or 2 supervisors watching how you teach. They will assess how you interact with the class, how you manage the class as well as how you deliver the lesson. Your lesson should not solely be a powerpoint presentation style. There should be more interactions such as group work or something besides the usual teaching method.
One important thing is to establish rapport with students. However, for a normal average teacher, rapport building requires time and not in a time frame of 10 weeks (of course there will be teachers who are very effective and excel in establishing rapport (= ) I feel that this 10 weeks may be more for the students to 'test water', usually after this period, they know you better and will be more willing to cooperate with you. Thus classroom management is quite a problem for us at the beginning =(
Really praying hard that i will be able to adapt to the new environment and students as soon as possible!
Counting down.....
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