Developing my strengths and weaknesses

(A Reflection)
An evaluation form provided by Cooperating Teacher is a tool used to measure

an individual’s overall performance. It comprises all the aspects of a person specifically

student teachers, such as his/her ability and capacity to meet the goals in teaching. It

may collect information about a student’s attendance, personality, performance in

teaching, motivation, and ethical judgement whether positive or negative. It will also

determine the strengths and weaknesses of the student teacher that will help improve

his/her way of teaching. I found the evaluation form as an important tool in my field of

practice since it gives the basis on what area of teaching I needed to improve. I

obtained good grades in my evaluation form, but it doesn’t mean it is enough to tell that

I learned a lot, that is why I deeply needed the most the negative comments of my

cooperating teacher. One of my cooperating teachers once said that “I don’t need to

write the comments on your evaluation form, I just have to say it directly to you and

you must remember it.” Well, based on what he said I understood that he didn’t want to

write the comments, but I was very thankful since he was being honest about my

performance. The very first time I taught, I let him to evaluate me to discover my

strengths and weaknesses in teaching and she gave me positive and negative

feedbacks which I accepted and absorbed deep within my heart and my mind. The

things that I needed to improve was my questioning skills and the classroom

management. On the other hand, I also have strengths like the knowledge of the subject
matter, personality, modulated voice, teaching methods and lesson planning. I need to

improve my classroom management and questioning skills since it is verry important in

handling the class, that is why I applied and accepted all things and tips that my

cooperating teacher gave to me. I was very thankful to the evaluations of my

cooperating teacher because I am very aware now of the things that I needed to

improve.

Through this tool, I could say that to handle the class well, I need to develop my

weaknesses and continuously also develop my strengths. Nobody is perfect, we all

make mistakes but what’s important is we do our best to learn from it and improve

ourselves. Well, I’m so thankful that our education department of San Jose Community

College provided a tool in which helps the student teacher to strive more to be an

effective teacher. Thus, as a future teacher I learned that we need to accept our flaws

and learn from it to improve it. On the other hand, we must not remain our strengths the

way it is, we also need to continuously improve it. Truly, learning is a never-ending

process.