Dialectical Journal for ED 335 Teaching Practicum
Date: 7 February 2017
Observations/ Account
(What Happened?)
Today I taught mathematics at 7:30am.
First of all, I greet them and asked them
to come to carpet because students
usually give me more attention when
they are on the carpet with me.
Then I checked their answer. I picked one
random student for one question to
explain why he or she got this answer
and how he or she got.
Some students were really keen to
answer but some were just keep quiet.
All of the students were able to explain
why they got that answer. And they did
pretty well in reasoning.
After checking their answer, I got the
worksheet that they supposed to do for
their table-work. But before that, I asked
them to cooperate with me and we
solved every problem together on the
board. And I asked them if they have any
question.
Then I gave the same worksheet paper
and another new worksheet paper. So
they did two worksheets. But some did
not finish in the classroom so they took
them to home as homework.
Name: Matthew Uk Peng Cung
Reflections & Critical Response
(What do I think of it? What went well? What
could be improved? How? What will I do
differently? How does this connect to the
theory I have read from class?)
It was great lesson. In this lesson, I made
more engagement with my students
unlike before. Asking them sit on the
carpet was only purposed to get their
attention. And It was really helped me to
get their attention rather than let them
sit at their seat.
Before I was having hard time to get
their attention when I let them to sit at
their seat. Finally, I found out one great
strategy to get students attention.
In mathematics, I believe that practice is
really important. So I always do the first
worksheet with them. But I didnt spoil
them instead I instructed them how to
think and how to approach the problem.
If their thinkings are not quite right, I
give suggestions to think differently.