Journal 1

Week 1
21st- 24th Feb, 2016
Thursday 25/02/2016
In this week, I went to American School of Creative Science for mix
gender to observe students and teacher's strategies in the
classroom. Then in first day, I found my colleagues there and I
joined them to ask the reception about the manager assistance.
After waiting for long time, the manager assistance met us and we
introduced ourselves and talked about our mission (task) in the
school. She was happy. She welcomed us and she let us to meet
teachers and also to choose which teacher we will join to her class.
After the classes, I liked my MST which teach
English subjects and her name is Ms.
Deema. Also, I liked class which grade one-C
with her design and organization. I took
some notes about her teaching. Actually,
she was very good had a good strategies
used in her class and she can control the
class to follow her roles.
In next day, I found some duties and activities that attracted me and
I like teacher's design in her class for example, she divided her class
in areas like student's work, grade two stars (reward system), our
theme, our alphabet, classroom rules, stories area, circle time and
our word wall. I saw the teacher's effort in her class through her
teaching students and I saw also students work in activity time and
they really like their teacher and like English subject to learning and
work on.
The most interesting strategies I like from my MST about her
translations from carpet to tables also using technologies in her
class like data show to present videos, workbook and pupil's book
these had related to the lesson. About activities, she used from
pupil's book and depends on workbook but she had tried to create
the activity that have related to the lesson and fix to student's
levels.
Actually, this week I just observe English, sciences and math to
know in near of my MST's English, math and science also my
students that I have to teach them in next week.
Finally, I like my students and I really want to teach them in next
week. So, I choose the lesson with MST and prepared all resources
that I need to teach children in first class in the morning on Sunday.