Nervous About

April 20, 2008

These past few days I have been anxious about my parent and teacher observations. I just couldn’t deny the fact that I am not confident enough to really stand in front with somebody at the back trying to evaluate or take some notes about my teaching process. It makes me feel some butterflies in my stomach and definitely I got weak in the knees. That dread wasn’t gone until this afternoon for I was really having full house in my last class. I had my colleague in and observed for an hour and the next was the parent of my student. Well, that’s life here. You got to be prepared of being observed anytime.

More so, as the time for my observation came, I felt my heart was beating faster as its used to everytime I’m worried and I felt something in my stomach. I just felt uneasy and nervous. I didn’t know why. Well, thanks goodness that the class were so fine and everybody was geared up to talking and they expressed themselves very well especially Emily – the highly capable student in my class. We played couple of games and unscrambled words hunt around the school. That took them a while to crach the worrds but it was definitely worth it. Finally, the first hour ended and we went out for a short break. My colleague thanked me for the favor to see my class. It gave a pat on the shoulders after all.

I thought and pray hard, hoping that my student’s mom won’t come to observe the clas. I am just fed up to it and the unpredictability of things here. However, she did and came in late than expected as usual. I just had things get it on and we played couple of games again and Jenga which was quite fun for all of us. They just got so excited and they absorbed to it for a few minutes until the blocks fell. The girls win over the boys and all the girls clapped their hands saying we won!

The second half ended with a written activity which was a crossword puzzle I made and it took them almost half an hour to crack all the words. Haha.

The class ended quite well and the mother came up to me and thanked me in her own way. I highly appreciated her effort. It was indeed a true appreciation of my hardwork for the day. I went home happy and fulfilled for today and in fact I am still smiling while writing this entry. :)

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