Practicum stories

My first story

I really enjoyed being in classrooms with kids. But what happened is that I was not able to look at a class as a whole but as individual students and even as individual human beings and thinking that each kid has a story. They are sons and daughters and they come with a background and a history. Before I started my practicum,when I imagined classrooms, I thought of classrooms as whole group and was thinking about how will I manage a whole group of students? How will I teach a whole group of students? But now I realized that this is not how I am going to see the students I am going to teach. I was not able to see them as a group of students. actually I was not able to see them as just students, I saw more than that. I was surprised by my way of thinking and asked my self Why?  and the only reason I had was, maybe because I am a mother and I saw my own kids in every one of them. 

My second story

Most of the teachers in the school use a traditional approach to teaching. My idea about teaching is very different and far from traditional. I was worried when it is my turn to take over a class that is not mine and introduce a different method of teaching, such as games and group work, I might loose the attention of the kids and lose control especially because they are not used to those methods. Yet, I was determined to try my way and it actually worked. The kids where very excited about the new method and got engaged in the activity. To get their attention, I need only to switch the light on and off few times. I was surprised that the kids were able to adapt to the new method so quickly and that gave me the confidence and courage to do it again.