My Experience as a Student Teacher

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Hello there. Uh It's me, TRS and this is a video that I've been planning for the longest time. I've been planning this for like maybe 2.5 weeks, but only got to do it now because I've been very busy these past few weeks after my internship. Uh I wanted to make a video sharing my experience as a student teacher. This is to, you know, maybe share some memories or maybe help those who are also planning to take up uh education and are feeling a bit nervous about this whole process because I know I was, you know, it's different from the type of video that I wanted to make. I have always wanted to make gaming videos, but this is to maybe switch things up. So I decided to split things up, you know, I'll talk about the beginning, the middle and the end of my internship. I even wore my uniform for the occasion. Anyways at the start, we were deployed. No. Uh when we were deployed it, we didn't really have to attend the classes yet. We just uh introduced ourselves to the teachers, you know, and we were assigned our cooperating teachers. And that's the start of this process, this phase that uh the internship the next day we attended. Now for, in our training plan, we were assigned that we were told that for the first, you know, I think four weeks for the first month, uh we were going to simply observe our teachers and help them with the uh some of the other stuff, you know, recording uh scores uh helping with lesson plans uh carrying their uh visual aids, et cetera. And we were also told that we were going to stay there for 14 weeks. So about 3.5 months. However, in the middle of the beginning, if that makes sense. Uh No, right about the start. Maybe after a week or two, we decided to ditch the training plan. So we didn't need to follow what was uh told what we were told to do. So maybe in the first, maybe at the third or fourth week, I decided, uh you know what, I'm going to start my practice teaching. I didn't wait for the fifth week and I think that was a mistake. Uh on my first day, my first class, it didn't go too badly. It didn't go well either for my first class. I was teaching uh six of the figures of speech, six of the 20 figures of speech. I ended up discussing six figures of speech in the span of five minutes. That's bad. That is very bad. Each class in that school lasted for about 50 minutes. So I had 45 minutes left. Good thing. I had a seat work prepared. However, they did that seat work for 45 minutes and it was not a hard seat work to do. It was very basic. Mom Aguilar thankfully was there and decided to step in. Uh and, you know, clear up anything that they didn't understand. Thankfully, ma ma after the class, she spoke to me and she gave me pointers on what to do. She told me to ask them questions uh instead of them asking me questions as well. Uh try to give more examples and ask examples from them, try to interact with the class. And after that, the next class, the next period, thankfully, it went a little bit better. Uh I decided to take uh what Ma Aguilar said and use it. So I asked examples, I asked questions and it went well, it went better than the first uh class and then I went on and on and on and it kept getting better and better. And that was my first day and that went on for a few more weeks. And during the first weeks, that's when I start to get to know my students, the grade 10 students. And I gotta say even though there are times when they, some of them ****** me off, I still enjoyed my time there. Some of them I think aren't very connected to me, but that's fine. It's not, you know, it's not rare for a student to, you know, be disconnected from a teacher. I mean, not every teacher could connect to every student, but there were students that connected with me. There were students that became friends with me and they made this internship a lot more entertaining. It didn't feel like 3.5 months. It only felt like a month of teaching during the middle part. That's when I started getting more comfortable. You know, I started coming up with my own quiz. Uh I made my own lesson plans. No, I made my own activities. Those activities are very important. They make the class more ecstatic, they make the more the class more engaged with you. Uh When the students are having fun with the lesson, that's when you know that you're doing something, right? What a teacher once told me, one of my professors once told me a miserable teacher will create miserable students. So I became the kind of teacher that uh you know, I want to have a teacher that isn't uh you know, a teacher that doesn't terrorize the students. But of course, even though I want to be a teacher who is friendly with the students, I also needed to practice my authority. I needed to remind them that even though I'm friendly, even though that I am also still a student, I still rank above them, I instill their teacher. There were times when I recommended my students, there are times when they really pushed me to the limits of my patience, but all in all it didn't really occur all that much. Maybe it's because I'm just friendly, too friendly. Uh, I have, uh, very long views. There were classes that I favored. I'm not gonna say who or which classes those are. But you can get, if you're my student, if you're a student of mine, you'll get an idea. I would also want to be a teacher, the type of teacher to them who they, you know, admires a type of teacher that they're excited to see that they're excited to, you know, see coming towards the classroom. I don't wanna be the type of teacher that the kids are excited about whenever they're absent, whenever they're not attending class. Well, I mean, every class is excited and happy when the teacher doesn't attend good or bad. But I still want to be the type of teacher that they're willingly, you know, accepting into the class. And I think that I got to achieve that with some of the classes. So that's on during the middle part of it. And during the final part of the internship, that's when I started to realize that I've grown attached to students and I was starting to, you know, get a little bit sad that it's going to end soon and that I won't be seeing them every day. Anymore during the final weeks of the student teaching of the internship, that's uh when the stressful parts happen, that's when you, you know, start to try to gather all of the requirements and stuff. Um Me during the final parts, that was the part when, you know, we were starting to prepare for our demos, uh picking out lessons, uh trying to come up with different activities for the demos in my demo. I was the sacrificial lamb and I went first, I decided to go first because I wanted to get it over with while preparing for my demo. I was nervous. Of course, I was, however, during my demo, I was shaking, I was shaking, my hands were shaking. I was trembling. I was nervous. My students can see how nervous I was. And it was funny. It was really funny because there was so many things that went sideways during that demo. During my demo, it rained. That was very unfortunate. And he had a hard time. Me, I had a hard time preparing and during the demo, some of the tape that I used to, you know, put up my visual aids, they decided to stop working and just let it go. They start my visual aids started falling apart. And my, as I added more masking tape, it didn't really stick either. Like I was wondering what the **** is wrong with this tape. I was adding so much tape and in the end it started to stick. However my visual aid was sideways. It was, it was uh you know, a bit jagged. So yeah, you could imagine how nervous I was during that time. You could imagine the tension in my body. I was shaking while grabbing their recitation chips. I was already having a difficult time just trying to grab two pieces of the damn things. What added to the tension of my demo was the fact that every English teacher in the uh English Department of or attended my demo except for the afternoon, uh afternoon teachers, every morning teacher attended my demo. And that really, that really effed me up. That really screwed with my mentality. That really made me even more nervous, the amount of people that at the back of the classroom that really shaped me up throughout the whole thing. You know, when you're nervous at the start of a performance, then once you get into the middle, you, you, that tension starts to disappear. You get more used to it. No, in my demo, I did not get used to it. I was shaking from start to the end. I was shaking. I was nervous and thankfully my students, they were cooperative and I'm still grateful for them for that. And I'm still grateful to the class that I picked for my demo. I, I genuinely believe that I made the right choice of choosing that age because of them. No, because of them cooperating. Because of them actually having fun with the lesson. Uh It did help, you know, kind of ease my tension about, uh a bit, make me less nervous. Once my demo ended, once everyone stood up, I it just felt like a massive burden on my shoulders, started to crumble and it start to fall off my shoulders. And the relief after the demo is just amazing after the demo. Uh It was just smooth sailing. Uh There me, I didn't really do all that much anymore. I don't, I think I had a few lessons done and during my final weeks in the, in that school, uh the students were, you know, saying their goodbyes. Uh And I was saying my goodbyes and you know, thanking them for the experience. And I also want to thank my CT Ma Aguilar Ma A if you're watching this, thank you. Uh You were a great mentor to me. I learned a lot from you and I am going to continue being the kind of teacher that I am and you know, use some of the things that I learned from you. So thank you. I appreciate everything and to my students. If any of you are watching this, if any of you are actually interested in watching this and if you actually made it this far to the end, thank you for making my internship a lot more interesting. Be it for good or you know, be it good or bad. You know, if you're one of the students that I like, one of the students that kept reciting, that kept interacting with me that kept, you know, having past, uh, requirements on time. Thank you. Teacher was one of the best experiences I've ever had. I had met new people. I got to know my classmates a little bit better and I made new friends. I enjoyed it genuinely. So I think I'll pursue teaching and maybe it is a passion of mine. But if it isn't your thing, if it, this is what you're taking and you don't really enjoy it. If you're not having fun interacting with students, if you don't like, you know, no noisy students, if you don't like friendly students, if you don't like students interacting with you, if you don't, you don't like any of that, then I suggest, you know, just stepping down once you graduate, uh try picking a different uh line of work. Because if you want to be a teacher, you really, it really needs to be your passion. You're gonna need a lot of patience. That's basically everything I want to say about my experience, everything that I want to, you know, give away. So to those who are pursuing this profession and are entering this phase, I wish all of you good luck to my students. Uh Thank you. And I also wish all of you good luck with the professions that you're all going to be chasing to my city. Thank you, ma'am. I truly appreciate everything and thank you for watching. See you.