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Today is the beginning for the new cycle of MCS senior high. Cycles are like the semesters we have in college but they are called by that name here in MCS. We got to meet our future students with one new section. Saint Marga and Saint Catherine are returning classes but for a different subject namely Community engagement. While the new section is a STEM strand Saint Basil. I myself is a stem graduate back in senior highschool and only pursued social science in college so I am very excited to teach them.

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First day of our orientation for the practice teaching which also marks the start of the second semester. The feeling of being deployed on the field as practice teachers is a mixture of excitement and nervousness. Excited because practice teaching is the culmination of our 4 years of studying in the university and Nervous because we don't know what lies ahead.

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This is the first of the three patnuro sessions. Patnuro is a series of orientation programs designed to help us by giving information that can help us during the duration of our practice teaching. During the patnuro we we're also able to meet various principals of different schools that are partnered with the ITL for the practice teaching program.

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February 8, 2022: Second Patnuro session

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February 8, 2022: Second Patnuro session

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The second day of the Patnuro session revolves around different speakers talking about topic related to practice teaching. Some of the topics discussed during the session is about Classroom management in an online learning set up and proper decorum during in an online class. The speakers themselves where veteran teachers and principal from the different partnered schools thus the things they talk about is well vouched and are based on experiences.

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February 10, 2022: Third Patnuro session

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February 10, 2022: Third Patnuro session

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This is the third and last day of the patnuro session. The programs involved are just continuations from the past session about topic that will help us during the practice teaching. This screenshot here for example explains what action research is and the speaker further explain its process, why do we need to do it, and its impact to education as a whole. Of course we have basic understanding on what action research is as we already made a proposal of one during our field studies. But listening to the perspective of other teachers outside of PNU talking about their views on action research expands our knowledge about the topic.

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This is it our own pinning ceremony, a teacher can graduate multiple times as we do not stop studying and continue to pursue higher field in education but a teacher can only have one pinning ceremony in his entire career. I'm happy that I managed to reach this part with how many self doubts that I have throughout the years inside the university taking this course. Having my mother who is always by my side doing the honors of putting the pin on my uniform is the greatest honor I will ever have during my teaching career.

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February 18: Meeting with our supervisor

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February 18: Meeting with our supervisor

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This is our first meeting with our supervisor for this semester Ma'am Colis. Our supervisor is not new to us as she became our teacher since 2nd year with our subject historiography. Our discussion revolves around the things that we must accomplished throughout our practice teaching like portfolios, website, and lesson plans, which all honestly sounded kinda heavy especially for our classmates who are working but didn't managed to get a slot to the ITL. But if its all for our future we'll just have to deal with it as a teacher.

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This was our meeting for the deployment next week it was quite a surprise for everyone as the meeting happened on weekends and some of us already have things to do and places to go. It created a conflict between the host and one of my classmate in the group chat before the meet started and continued during the meet that consumed almost 30 mins. The rest of the meeting revolves to additional requirements that we must comply and things we must always remember during our time of our practice teaching.

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This was our first general meeting with the school we are assigned to the Manila Cathedral School. All of the Critique teachers are available along with every student teacher inside the meeting. The meet revolves around the distribution of students to the assigned CT's along with the set of rules of the school.

The CT assigned to us is Sir Jacob of grade 12 Senior High that handles two subjects; Trends and Philosophy. Golden and Thea are also part of the group that I belonged. Both of them are intelligent and hard working student and I am happy to work along side with them.

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February 24, 2022: Beginning of the Class observation

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February 24, 2022: Beginning of the Class observation

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First meeting with our critique teacher Sir Jacob, for the next 2 months he will guide us during our practice teaching journey. The first part revolves around self introduction with sir followed by the set of rules he uses when teaching. Though we are surprised to hear from him that they only discovered that they would have students the day the general meeting took place. Though he still welcomed us with open arms and received us with warm welcome in MCS

The meeting was followed by his 1st class and our 1st observation for the week. We observed and took notes of the behavior of senior highschool students as they are different from the elementary student we used to have back in field studies.

We we're assigned with the sections we are about to teach and decided to do it in a cycle that changes every week. Next week will be the start of our practice teaching journey.

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February 24, 2022: Meeting with out Supervisor

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February 24, 2022: Meeting with out Supervisor

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With the observation done we head to the meeting with our supervisor. Things we're clarified about the requirements that needed to be submitted along with schedules in the calendar that must be accomplished to see who will be teaching next week.

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February 28, 2022: Consultation for the upcoming week

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February 28, 2022: Consultation for the upcoming week

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Our first consultation for the upcoming demo teaching this week that we held on Monday. Before hand sir Jacob already gave us the necessary sources to create how content and power point presentation, though it's extra work for me as I don't have a partner to teach Philo as both of them are assigned to Trends this week.

After the initial post con, Sir Jacob also scheduled a 1 on 1 post con with him on Wednesday the day after Thea and Golden's demo.

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Today is the first class of my CT mates Golden and Thea with Golden having her first demonstration with our supervisor. The visit was actually surprising for our supervisor as he didn't know that our supervisor will observe that day. Both of them did a really good job of delivering their lesson proper well and manage their class effectively as we are prepared by our CT before hand.

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This is it, my first demonstration for the practice teaching. It is very nerve racking as the first time I'm teaching is also my first observation from our supervisor. To share my obstacles, I slept 3 am the day before the demo and woke up at 6 am to finalize and prepare everything needed to make the demo successful. I've prepared everything, the slides, lp, key notes, especially the one that indicates which words that I will be able to use as spring board to jump between sections. Another challenge is that the class I've been assigned to does not really speak too much with many students off cam for each of their personal reasons. But I managed to finish everything in time and with that my first demo teaching is done.

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Since we don't have classes during Friday we decided to observe a junior high demonstration of our classmates in grade 8. The lesson was about paxromana or the golden age of the Roman Empire. It would be a good example for us to observe how our other classmates on other level teach students on different grade level as they uses other teaching methods compared to what we use in senior high. The demonstration was great and even I enjoyed listening to the history lesson.

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March 7, 2022: Consultation for the upcoming week

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March 7, 2022: Consultation for the upcoming week

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This is our consultation to with our CT for the upcoming week. The way we check our crafted lesson plan and power point is through live presentation with our CT. We took turns on showing our work and receive individual critics and the things that should be changed for the practice teaching this week. In my opinion checking LP this way is better as we receive those feedback live and we can easily clarify any misconceptions during the session.

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This is my 2nd demo teaching for my practice teaching. The lesson given to me was about ICT and its uses, integrating the topic with pre-existing timely events is quite easy as ICT is already integrated to our society. I came prepared to teach as my lesson plan and powerpoint was already checked by our CT the day before our lesson through a live checking session. It's quite fun to discuss things that your student is fairly knowledgably about as they grew up with technology thus knew how to use it. Chunking the topics under ICT when smooth as using connection phrases and subjects are all present in each scenarios. With this I'm able to finish all of the task written in my lesson plan.

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This is the demo teaching session of one of my co teacher student under the same CT Althea. The way Thea handles her class is fascinating, I learned many things during Thea's demonstration. I like how she used the power point theme among us as sort of connecting bridge between topics and use the game's nature on the application of the lesson.

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We did not have a class that day so the three of us choose to watch the demo teaching of our other classmates from the different grade level in Junior High. Watching how our co teachers teach on other levels give us ideas on what kind of strategies to use on communicating students of different ages as student's learning varies on the age of the pupils. The lesson was about ancient Rome and its golden era Pax Romana.

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March 14, 2022: Consultation for the upcoming week

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March 14, 2022: Consultation for the upcoming week

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Today is another consultation day for this week with our CT. The only lesson plan and powerpoint checked was golden as Thea and I won't be teaching for this week as Sir Jacob would take over the class for trends this week.

Our CT also shared his experiences with his students, the students where very irresponsible with their duties as they like most of their requirements even though they are already graduating. Sometimes I wonder how can I handle this kind of situation where in the students themselves doesn't want to pass anymore.

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For this topic sir Jacob decided to takeover the class as it is the last topic for the subject before the exams next week. I've also done my reading about this topic and I can say that it is a quite peculiar and difficult topic as it combines both social theories and the scientific field of neurological sciences. Those two are separate topic on different fields and yet they are both connected when teaching about neural and social networks. Watching sir conduct his class we took notes on how he handles such topics and the techniques that are evidently used to make learning happen.

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Nothing peculiar happened for today as it is just a general kamustahan ang consultation with our CT after the daily assembly. We most talk about the activities we need to pass and the general talks about updates on how we handle students on our teaching practice. Sir Jacob also checked and finalize Golden's lesson plan and powerpoint presentation.

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We observed Golden's third teaching session with the class of St. Martha. She handles the class with great improvement base on the comments provided to us by our CT. We also took notes on the way of practice shown by Golden during the discussion. The topic is quite open to us all as it is about death and I'm pretty sure everyone is susceptible to such occurrence thus everyone can connect to the discussion along with how she handles the discussion. The Lesson was finished and all of lesson plan parts where evidently shown by the practice teacher.

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March 21, 2022: Consultation for the upcoming week

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March 21, 2022: Consultation for the upcoming week

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There's not too much to talk about this day as this is the exam week for the students under our CT. Instead we talk about the upcoming schedules for the next quarter of the school year since our demo teaching will also resume in the 2nd week of the fourth quarter. Our CT explained the following subject that we would handle including the new ones. Other than that our CT also talks about how he handles problem students who rarely passes any requirements and is in danger of failing the class.

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Althea and I are assigned to conduct review for the two sections of our CT. The subject is Trends and it includes all of the lessons even before we started teaching them. Since there are lots of topics needed to be reviewed we decided to share each class and focus on specific topics thus two teachers will conduct a review in each class. Reviewing the lesson and choosing the most important aspect of it is frankly difficult as the topic is a huge chunk and we only need to create 5 questions each topic. But our CT guided us on what parts that needs focusing and we finished without problem.

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We only observed our CT and his student take the exam. Our CT clearly set down rules such as a required open cam while taking the exam and those who message him earlier are the only ones allowed to turn off their camera. We just silently observed their behavior for 2 hours, after the test the CT then reminded them of things needed to be passed. I think its a cool idea for an online open cam exam to observe student behavior.

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We decided to meet later that evening to talk about our plans for our CBAR. We threw ideas at each other weighing its pros and cons along with its viability. Our meeting lasted for a couple of hours and ended up with this list that we would show to our CT tomorrow to ask for his opinion.
Gamification of PowerPoint Presentation
Guidance Counselling Intervention
Reward System
Assessment in SHS

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The three of us conducted a CBAR meeting to finalize the things that we need to do for our data gathering procedure during the demo teaching. As our time here in MCS is limited we need to integrate our data gathering while teaching our own class. Each one of us are assigned with things that we need to do and parts of the CBAR in order to be ready for the following weeks. This is research is one of our final requirements and we must finish it on time.

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This is our general consultation day with our CT for the upcoming weeks and how will we handle the next sessions. Since our CT took this 1st week to teach the students, we are now assigned for the class session next week April 5 and April 7. Our topics are now assigned with subjects of Community engagement and the continuation of Philosophy. To be franked I am not familiar at all with the subject for humms students as I did not take this course back in senior high thus I don't have prior experience to this subject. But our CT and my classmates are here to support each other and together we can finish this semester.

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This webinar shows us the contents of the portfolio that we needed to submit as part of our final requirements. The speaker herself is one of our batchmates who already finished their Practice teaching and is now undergoing field studies. At first I was astonished on how creative she is on her portfolio. The intricate design along with the contents are very well made and I even ask myself If I can do something similar. Some of the keynotes she left with us is always have a screenshot of events as evidences and collect certificates as part of the evidences needed in making the portfolio.

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As I said earlier our CT will take the first week session of our classes. The subject was philosophy and a very interesting topic because it is closely related to the community. However despite the efforts of our CT the students themselves looks a bit distant and does not want to participate. Its actually sad to see such passionate teacher giving effort to this class only for them to give shallow answers with no context. After the class our CT talks about his frustrations on this class and how its a waste of effort to teach them.

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This activity is quite different from other online platforms we've joined before as this is not a webinar but a focus group discussion. Which means the host are not the only one who will speak but its for everyone inside the breakout rooms to contribute to the thought process. As seniors we've given techniques and skills that aspiring social science students needs to learn to survive the course. I myself gave my own tips such as "knowing the focal point" of an event allows you to see the bigger picture and to connect the events that happened without reading the whole thing as just by studying turning points and key events we can easily see what and how it happened. The discussion lasted for 2 hours before we got back to the main meeting room.

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April 4, 2022: Daily meeting and class observation

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April 4, 2022: Daily meeting and class observation

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For today's agenda sir Jacob checked both our lesson plans and powerpoint presentation for the class this week, some minor changes and advices are given before we are dismissed. But since we have no classes today we decided to visit and watch one of our class Carla from the other grade level. We took down notes on how she handles the students that are in the different grade level than ours as we may get some experience on how to handle younger students. The lesson went smoothly and the students where cooperative.

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The final demo of my classmate Golden. The days started with a series of unfortunate events, the weather was gloomy and rain showers are hovering over metro manila thus affecting the internet access of everyone of us. So we prepared counter measures such as access to the presentation and apps incase Golden got disconnected during her class. The demo proceed despite the bad weather and I recorded her class as a back up recording in case the zoom recording fails. The class was finished without a problem and we started post conference after. The demo of both Golden and I are scheduled this week but since her class is Tuesday her time for preparation is less but she still managed to push through.

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Today was my grand demo day, I was feeling very nervous with how this event should represent the culmination of everything I learned while studying in PNU. I prepared for almost a week with the content and powerpoint along with the applications used but I still felt very nervous. My CT and friends were all present along the way to guide me to this day. Though with all of the preparations I got taken over by my anxiety during my first few minutes of teaching, my words got mixed, muffled, and cold sweat run over my body. But as time goes by I felt relaxed and confident during the discussion with my students. I felt very happy from the start to the end with how my demo went and that I got over a huge obstacle on my college career.

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Today is the last class before the long awaited one week break by both the students and teachers. Even though its a break, our CT provided them with enough work and readings to spend the break, but still acknowledging the students welfare therefore the task are not that heavy. As for us we would still continue to assist our ST during the break.

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April 18: Start of the class after after break

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April 18: Start of the class after after break

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Today is the first classes after the holy week, and we gain a new companion for this week. Teacher Shane is a classmate of ours assigned in Grade 7, but under some circumstances their teacher participant won't be able to attend school for a couple of days or weeks thus she got transferred to us. I assisted teacher Shane by recording recitation during her class and taking screenshots while she teachers.

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April 19: Grand demonstration of teacher Thea.

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April 19: Grand demonstration of teacher Thea.

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Today is the grand demonstration day of teacher Althea. Golden and I already finished our grand demonstration before the holy week while her demo is scheduled after the holy week. I can't imagine how much pressure she had while waiting for the holy week to pass. Unable to completely rest at all as the feeling of tense and anticipation for the next week. But she pulled through and managed to have a successful demo. Congrats teacher Thea.

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This was a very fun yet challenging experience. Practice teaching is one of the final step an education student must cross before becoming a fully fledge teacher. At first I was discouraged as my practice teaching career would be during an online remote setting as back then in PNU we are trained for face to face scenario meaning the skills imparted to us won't work in this new setting. But we managed to pull through together, with the help of my teachers, classmates who always collaborates when needed, my colleagues in practice teaching as we assist one another. This is a very memorable experience to me that I will cherish wherever fate may take me after college.