My Practicum Story

My Practicum Story

If someone asks me what is the most important day during my practicum then I would say that is the day that I do my teaching lesson. And until now ..I still don’t believe that I didn’t show up in the class room at the day I supposed to give my very first math lesson in my teaching career, of course if I still want to pursuit this career. This event was just like a wake up call to my conscience, being a teacher is just not standing in front of the class room and teach a lesson. Teaching is a lot more than that, the lesson I have learned is to prepare well in advance, be responsible to what you do and be a good model

And here is my full story …

John Oliver high school is my practicum school, because I have two teaching subject areas: Computer Science and Math so I have two SA’s (Sponsor Teacher) and my schedule during the practicum was set as following: the first two blocks I went to my IT sponsor teacher class, the last two block after lunch I went to my Math sponsor teacher class room. Unless I went to another class to observe another teacher, otherwise I sat the my sponsor class room and tried to help students as much as I could during activities in class. Things went well in almost two week practicum until the day I supposed to give a Math lesson in grade 10 class. That was the day that I was waiting for a long time because math is my favorite subject and I was eager to do the best I could during that class

Somehow, in my mind I thought that I would teach in the third block as usual because that was the time I supposed to spend with my math sponsor teacher…But in fact, my lesson was in the second block. Which meant I showed up in the class when the lesson was over, and of course, the sponsor teacher had to do the job which was mine and she didn’t prepare for that..

What happened next? A lot of explaining going on ..saying sorry …and I was really upset about myself