Sule, Romero E.

BSE4 – English
Ms. Janet Balbalosa Dasalla

My Daily Journal
(A New Beginning)

A new opportunity means a fresh start, and all the wonderful possibilities new

beginnings bring. It is a great day to start my beginning day as a practice teacher at The

First Uniting Christian School. I can’t wait to witness new strategies, techniques, and

approaches that my cooperating teacher and other teachers will use in their classes

especially in this new kind of class set up which is the online class.

At exactly 8AM in the morning, my co-practice teachers and I, together with our pretty

cooperating teacher, Ms. Janet Balbalosa Dasalla, held a meeting with regards to the

protocols and updates for today’s agenda. We’ve discussed the requirements that is

required to us including daily journal, instructional materials, attendance, lesson plan, etc.

Ms. Janet also taught us how to use ClassIn, an application that enables teachers to perform

discussion virtually. It was kind of challenging, yet a fulfilling emotion because I got to

experience another kind of teaching application.

Her class with Grade 9 Samuel went great as expected. Started by a prayer of one of

her students, Ms. Janet delivered a well-prepared discussion about Context Clues. All

students, including us practice teachers, had a great time dealing with the lesson. I can see

the faces of each student when Ms. Janet was giving trophy to them as a reward for their

cooperation in the class. It was a great teaching technique indeed.

The last class for this day was with Grade 9 David. The lesson about Figures of Speech

went well. Ms. Janet taught them the three common types of Figures of Speech which are
Simile, Metaphor, and Personification. The class ended with an activity to be passed and

conducted on Friday.

I could not imagine how hard it is to work or teach in front of a web camera. I can say

that today’s way of teaching is really challenging for every teacher. Not only a lot of

knowledge about technology is needed to perform at your best in today’s set up of online

class, but also an access to the internet is a huge help to deliver learning for the students. I

could only hope that every teacher nowadays could have these requirements for a better

online teaching process.