Day 10

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If I can describe this day in one sentence, it will be “being the right-hand woman to my MST.” For instance, during assembly, my monitor school teacher stayed in the classroom to work with small group of students in their bop brain accounts. I take responsibility for observing and managing students during the assembly, and it was a good experience where I didn’t face many challenging behaviors. In addition, I helped my MST by printing worksheets for her teaching sessions on the resources room. My MST used these worksheets for applying differentiation on math which something I observed for the first time.

The most noticeable thing was the differences between teaching two different sections of grade three. My MST taught 3/I without troubles, they get new concepts quickly, and the lesson continued smoothly. On the other hand, the other section 3 J was utterly different it was hard for my MST to taught them because there were a lot of interruptions and misbehaving. Also, I noticed they take a long time until they get concepts and completed tasks. From this observation, I realized that the main difference between two sections is their personalities. What I meant that in the challenging section students were always hyperactive regardless of their levels. I saw a high-level student who can’t finish his work without walking in the classroom and moved from table to another. I think I’m the classroom teacher I will consult psychologists because my knowledge as a primary teacher will not be enough to solve their attitude. Also, another thing I can do is asking the administration to move some students to the other section which can balance the differences between two sections.

Another important incident today was working with my MST after the school day on marking science assessment and record results on students reports. I had a chance to ask my MST about the system of assessments such as how many assessments she conducted each term. My MST complained that the number of assessments is big comparing to what she used to do in her home country. On the other hand, I heard students complained too because they have many assessments in one day, for example, tomorrow they have three for math, ICT, and Islamic studies. I think it is too many assessments for grade three learners and it creates pressure for students as well as teachers. I understand the importance of assessments, but it should not be that hard for both students and teachers.