Saturday, August 13, 2005
i have good news to share! i passed my field supervision. mrs. tan came to the childcare today to observe me teaching the children and the very kind lady passed me. praise the Lord!i really experienced an abundance of favour during my field supervision. i was initially pretty worried if i would pass or not because the children were really a handful. not only had i never taught k2 children before, i had never taught children who were as noisy and rowdy as them. when i first started my attachment, i nearly fainted when i saw how they behaved.my first 2 lessons went really horribly. the children did not pay attention and i had difficulty managing them. during my 3rd lesson, i made some improvements, i made a chart to tell them about the schedule and it went significantly better than the first 2. the children paid attention and they were excited and eager to participate. i originally planned to let mrs. tan supervise my 4th lesson but the week before i felt that it would not be suitable. probably was a prompting from God. sounds silly but it turned out to be true. i took a closer look at the 4th lesson plan and thought that the children might not be able to give me enough ideas for a brainstorm web. when i conducted my lesson yesterday, i saw how i could have failed my field supervision if i had chosen that lesson plan. the children could not come up with many ideas, they needed a lot of help with the activity sheet and they did not do their art and craft activity properly. i wanted them to do leaf printing but some of them ended up using sponges and paint brushes instead. then a child spilled a cup of water and there was cleaning up to do. today, i conducted the 5th lesson and the children were responsive and eager to do the art and craft activity. they also did it well and let their creative juices flow. there was a bit of fidgeting and looking elsewhere going on and when i wanted to let some of them go to the learning corner, all of them wanted to go and those who did not get to go started whinning and complaining. mrs. tan said that my lesson was alright. she gave me a few suggestions for improvement and highlighted some of the good points of the lesson. it was not a perfect lesson but i still passed. i'm really thankful that mrs. tan was my field supervisor as well. i've known her since year 1 and she was my field supervisor last semester too. she is really nice and not overly strict. all glory to God. i really saw His goodness and mercy during my attachment. how everything seemed to fall into place when it was time for my field supervison. i'm so blessed and thankful.
peili hugged at 12:30 PM