It was the 24th of March 2021
where I did my observation at Sunrise Primary School, in class one Rose. When I
first entered this class, and it was well organized by which students sit down
and sing a song with their teacher. They all followed what their teacher asked
them to do. The classroom was decorated with students individual and group
activities. The time out corner is very special because it is Jesus’s picture,
and this was where very disobedient student placed at for them to pray to Jesus
about 15 minutes. The teacher was flexible in her teaching as she taught
students and controlled some misbehavior attitudes arose from them. She usually
used calm and friendly tone of voice to control her students.
Throughout her teaching and I noticed that
she applied John Dewey theory in her delivering. Whereby she allocated her
students in groups and distributed building block in each group for them to use
for addition and subtraction. She also presented to students living and non-living
things so they could familiarize themselves with that kind of authentic
materials. These were kinds of hands-on activities which was one of John Dewey
theory. Therefore, the teaching went well from beginning till the end as
students collaborate well and enjoyed each lesson delivered to them. It also
went well in a way that teacher approached and facilitated each student if they
need more assistance. One thing I saw was that she called out and did the
counseling with one of her students who was not attending school about 2 weeks.
She encouraged and asked her student to prioritize her education beside
household matters, as education is beneficial for all students.
In addition, I believed that every child
achieved every learning outcome from each subject being taught and she finished
her delivering on time within the allocated 1-hour time. I noticed this as I
helped in marking their activity and most of them do well. The classroom was
really organized, and all students collaborated well in working together, they had no free time for disturbances as they are always on task from the beginning
till the end of every lessons.
To recommend, it is important for teachers to keep their
classroom organized well in terms of student-centered learning environment. As
this is one way of improving struggling learner to become a self-directed
learner. Students centered learning competency is applied by this associate
teacher as her students actively participate in every lesson and group working.
I could not intervene to make improvement in her teaching as she did very well,
I just wish she keep this up and applied many more teaching approaches next
time. Overall, I have learnt lot of teaching strategies and approaches from
this associate teacher, and I would apply it in my future teaching.
