I think I should have reduce time to just playing around since today is September 4, 2019 and it’s a first observation day. I observed 2 classes at Senior High School. Let’s just go straight to discuss what are the facts that I found while conducting my observation.
In Philippines education, particularly in USANT I notice that the instruction in the classroom is concern more on communication and participation of the students. It is proved when teacher pointed or called a name of a student to answer the question or give opinion, the student directly stand up and do what the teacher ask for. It seems like the students here are more expressive compare to students in my country.
Then, I kind of wondering when the first time I saw a student brought a doll to the classroom, or the students raise their feet on the seat in front of them, because as long as I learned in my country, these behavior are strictly prohibited for the teachers in there are prioritizing students’ attitude.
The next thing I got from today’s observation is the students are given as much as freedom to be creative in uttering their thoughts. It is reflected from their performance in public speaking class. There are some of them choose to individually perform story-telling, or speech-choir. The one that impress me the most is speech-choir. The teacher told me that it is one of the method she used to encourage students who shy to still can do public speaking.
I think I will implement speech-choir method after I go home. From both classes I understand that giving liberty to students is one of the way to show that you trust them to responsible for them self, and they trust you as their guidance.
Daughter of Alifuru 