1st Reflection
Such a weird feeling to have, after not being in schools for almost four years. But this time, I am the teacher. This step surrounds me with new level of concerns I never had before. In my first day at AlBayrouni School I realized how it is difficult to be the one who is responsible of this huge number of students.
One of the concerns that I was surprised of, is the special-education students’ situation in this school. They are sitting in the back of the class with the alert of “DO NOT TOUCH”! we as a teacher not permitted to speak with them or even make any connection. It hurts me as a human in the first place to avoid them in this way in front of the other students, maybe the solution could be to build a special class for them with a special education teacher, or if this opportunity is not available they could be in the same class, but at least should take all the subjects equally as same as their classmates.
Due to the stereotype typical teacher image in our minds, I will end this paper with a nice attitude I witnessed. I saw some teachers have close relationships with their students and as I believe this could improve the atmosphere inside classes and guide them to the highest grades.
The 2nd Reflection
How did it feel like to teach for the first time?
What challenges did you face?
What were your strengths?
How can you improve your teaching strategies next week?
To be honest, this is not my first time teaching, I had experienced being an English teacher before, but it was in a kindergarten. So, there is nothing to compare here. But I can say that my ex-experience helped me at this point with ridding out my stress from the beginning.
The prominent challenge I am facing until now is “the management of the class”, it is such a hard job to focus on my attendance as a teacher in the class besides delivering the material. At the same time, I should be aware of students’ behavior in the class. In order to be a multi-focusing teacher I think I will need some time.
To indicate my strength, I will quote my observer teacher when she said that I have a beautiful personality as a teacher that makes students attracted to the lesson.
I believe I will be more aware of every detail that will happen inside the class by the following week, including the hard-working and naughty students.
The 3rd Reflection
Mixed feelings that I have. The year passed so fast that I cannot believe I am writing my last reflection. The huge difference between Shahd at the beginning of the year and Shahd now is making me smile. In the beginning, I had so many doubts that I was in the right place, but today I am certainly in the right place despite all of the bad days that I went through throughout the year. I do believe that the cause of this satisfaction that I hold in my heart is my students, or I like to call them my friends more than students. Even though we had a flexible relationship, they never underestimate me as a teacher. I cannot end my last reflection without mentioning my partner in class; Maram who was absolutely the first reason that helped me from going all crazy in school as a result of the pressure that we went through as students in college and as teachers in school who have to be always calm and smiley with his students. I absolutely acquires a lot of good pieces of advice from my teacher training Ghada, she helped me to improve myself and to prove my attendance as a teacher in the class, finally, I would like to thank Dr. Duaa to be with us in our first year of practicum, I will not forget this year, it has a powerful impact on me that I will love to maintain on for the rest of my life.