Week 10 : Teaching Observation IV




I feel frightened that the last week of teaching observation in Muang Ubon school, but I have many things to handle. On this week, it's something special and something like the week before and I do not want to back to the university.

On Monday morning, I have no classes to observe and I went to practice the Crossword game with the students, who is the representative of the primary student to compete in the Student Arts And Crafts Competition. Then I went to the grade 9's room and there were 3 students in the classroom, other students prepare their competition, and I have turned the English song to them.

 I went to the school normally on Tuesday, even though I had to attend the Open Class Activity of English major at the Patumpittayacom school in the afternoon but my partner has to teach in the morning and I have to be the observer and shoot the teaching videos. After that, I went to pay the tuition at the university. Then, I went to the Patumpittayacom school. On the way to the school, It's heavy rain that made me and my friends got caught in a downpour at the unknown temple and we stay inside the temple until the rain lets up. When the rain stopped we left the temple, the rain comes down again and I got soaking wet while I was arriving at the school, me and my friend have lunch before going inside the school that made us late. The Open Class Activity was good, Worrawit was the teacher of this Open Class Activity, he is a clever teacher so he can teach the students well, but just has a little problem. After the Opening Class Activity, there was the reflection of the fourth-year students and some reflect made me feel bad. At 9 p.m., my mentor assistant called me and she said that I have to teach on tomorrow (on Wednesday) because they have the activity on Thursday morning, but I'm not prepared yet and I have to prepare it on that night.

On Wednesday, the day that I have to teach, I worried about everything and I told my mentor assistant that I can not do it, I do not want to teach, she told me that I can do it. I taught grade four- students about "clothes and the weather", I'm started with the warm-up activity, I said the lyrics of  Hello song and the students repeat after me and they sang and danced along the song. Next, I showed the flashcard about the weather and clothes, I read and spell the vocabularies first and they repeat after me, after that, I divided the students into two group by counting one to two, gave the flashcard to each group and let them match the flashcard. Then, I let the students conversation based on sample sentences. The production step, I let the students draw the picture of the weather and how to dress and present their picture in front of the classroom. The wrap-up step I asked them, what they have learned. When I finished teaching, it's like get something off my chest.

After the ceremony on Thursday morning, me and the colleagues went to say goodbye to the director, teachers, and students, I just have listened to the words of my friends, my tears were overflowing from my eyes. I cannot say anything and I cannot look at the students. I do not know how I feel and why I was a cry.

The last day of teaching observation in the school, the students gave me the flowers, key chains, pens, and the letters. I've cried again when I read the letters. The students came to hug me and they said: if you have free time, back to school to visit me.
All of the four weeks, I want to say thank you to my mentor, although I rarely talk to her, my mentor assistance, she always advices and helps me and the special one is my students, although they were naughty, I still like them because I knew that they were young.