Name: Aaron Job E.

Momongan
Subject: Field Study 1

OBSERVATION DAY 1
In my first observation, the student teacher was energizing the class. She wanted
the students to stand up, but they didn't; only a few students imitated her. Ultimately, the
teacher had to call the students' names and told them to stand. This shows that the
students don’t respect their teacher by not following the teacher’s instruction.
On the quiz bee, the student teacher reads some questions and calls names a little
too slowly. Even though they were not called, some of the students are raising their hands
and responding, which the student teacher did not notice. This means that the teacher
does not have her students well-organized and behaved, which is a failure on her part.
What’s more, she didn’t even bother to chide the rowdy students and just let them be. At
the end of the activity, the student teacher wished the students well.
Finally, here some other mistakes that I’ve noticed but won’t go too much into
detailing each one of them: 1) There was nothing to energize the students or entertain
them after the prayer. 2) Even though their names were not called, the student teacher
simply let the students answer in chorus. 3) They went straight to the lesson, which was
bad because there was no motivator. And that’s it for my first day in Field Study
Observation.
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In this observation, I could honestly say that the student teacher did everything
pretty well. There was a proper energizer that excited students cheerfully participated in,
and the lesson content was, in my opinion, amazing. However, I did notice that the
student teacher was a weak-speaker. She spoke in a slow and unsure manner, and every
few sentences she would always ask for the students if they understood her explanation or
not. For me, a teacher should always be confident and well-spoken when it comes to
teaching learners. If you are not confident with what you are sharing to your students,
then that can cause students to become uninterested in whatever’s coming out of your
mouth, because you yourself are not even sure what you are saying. You get me?
Next, there some unavoidable disturbances on the student teacher’s part because of
her surroundings. There would sometimes be a lot of background noise that is quite
honestly a big distraction to the class. And I know that this is a case of extenuating
circumstances because not all of us in an online setting can have a quiet place in our
homes. I am simply stating this as it is what I have observed.
And last of all, there were some technical issues that happened two or three times
during the lecture presentation. This may have been caused due to slow internet speed or
the device lagging or malfunctioning for a moment. But luckily, everything worked out in
the end and, for the most part, the students enjoyed her lessons because it was full of
colorful imagery to spark and keep the students’ attention.
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For starters, I found the student teacher’s presentation distracting. She was
teaching double-digit addition, and in her presentation, I couldn’t look at it without my
eyes hurting from the twinkling, flashing lights in her PPT. The flashing lights is a
dynamic image or GIF that has a bit of animation—and that particular animation had to
be multiple flashing lights that keeps piercing my eyes; and I am not even
overexaggerating, because it really does hurt my eyes due to my visual impairment of
retinitis pigmentosa, so I can say that her PPT presentation is not Visual Impairment
friendly. Generally, constant flashing lights are never good for the eyes.
One thing I’ve noticed in her manner of speaking is that is it very straight to the
point, making for a boring lecture. The student teacher is not at all engaging with her
elementary students, and we know that children have very low attention spans. As such,
if a teacher doesn’t regularly interact with her students in a funny and cheerful way, the
students will easily lose interest in the discussion and their gazes will generally tend to
swim around, thus you have lost your students’ focus on you. And it is a fact that I cannot
stress enough that a student’s concentration towards the discussion can be said to be
99.9% of the learning process. If your student’s eyes are not on you, then they are most
likely not paying attention and learning is jeopardized.
Lastly, the student teacher had to be supplemented by the professional teacher.
Now personally, I think this was the least of the negatives that I have observed, as the
supplementation only happened a few number of times, and it wasn’t really because of a
big issue that the professional teacher had to butt in; it was only so the professional
teacher could provide more clear and additional instructions to the students. Still, it
shows that the student teacher is still lacking in regards to giving out instructions to her
students on what to do, thus leading to a little bit of confusion on the students’ part.