Week 3 | 12 - 16 September | First time teaching

I started my week on Monday by finally teaching. My classes are on Monday at 11:30 am - 1 pm, Wednesday at 11:30 am - 1 pm and on Thursday at 10 am - 11 am.

Monday - 12th September

The very first lesson I taught was countable and uncountable nouns. It could be seen that some of the pupils were still trying to adapt with a new teacher teaching them. 

These are some appendix I used to teach my class

Tuesday - 13th September

In the next class, I taught my pupils the next subtopic of Unit 5 - Food and Health. In this subtopic, I taught them the adjectives that are related to food. Firstly, I explained what is adjective and what makes it different from noun. After that, I showed them examples of adjectives and how to use them.

shape of the glasses - cylinder

thickness of the burger - thick

thickness of the burger - thin

shape of the bread - square

shape of the bread - round/circle

the origin of Nasi Lemak - Malaysia

the origin of Kimchi - Korea

After making sure the pupils have understood adjectives well, I gave them a simple worksheet to test their understanding.

Wednesday - 14th September

I didn't have any classes and only had to go to other classes for relief.

Thursday - 15th September

Due to school activity, my class on Thursday was postponed to the next time.

Friday - 16th September

I didn't have any classes and only had to go to other classes for relief.

SWOT ANALYSIS OF WEEK 3

STRENGTH 

• Almost all students can cooperate well in class. All the tasks are completed as planned.

WEAKNESS

• I discovered some flaws in both pupils and myself. I was still nervous to teach and some pupils were not taking my lesson seriously. Therefore, not all pupils were 100% focusing on me. 

OBSERVATION 

• Instead of being soft and smiley all the time, I changed my way of teaching by being more stern. I also made sure I sound more confident while talking and explaining.

THREAT 

• If I don't get this weakness fixed, pupils will never respect me as their teacher and my lesson will not be fully effective.