Journal 1

Week 1
19th- 22nd Feb, 2017
Wednesday 22/02/2017

In this week, I went to Sama American Private School to observe

students and teacher's teaching strategies in the classroom with the
main focus on teaching Science. In the first day, I came late to the
school because I can't reach the location of Sama American School
actually that school is so far from my home and it takes nearly 35
minutes, but I chose this school because of its high rating and good
teaching quality. When I arrived to the school, I asked the reception
about where I have to be as a student teacher. Then I found my
colleagues there, and I joined them waiting for the principal and
science coordinator to meet us and to discuss our mission (task) in
the school. They were happy, welcomed us, make tours, and they let
us to meet teachers in the second period in the classroom. After the
second class, I met my MST which is teaching Science subject and
her name is Ms. Kristina Moaved. Moreover, I observed four sections
of grade two, and I saw there were different levels per section which
section A are low level and had a lot of bad behavior and section E
are the highiest level and the students are very smart. I liked Grade
Two- C to teach them next week. I took some notes about her
teaching and students' behaviors in different sections in this week.
She was very good had a good strategy applied in her classes , and
she can control the class to follow her roles.

In next days, I found some duties and science activities that

attracted me. The most interesting science activity is measurement
tools activity that MST allowed three students to hold a tool and to
ask other children a question like "which tool that can measure the
air?" It was interesting because children were very engagement and
feeling glad. I like this activity because it's related to the lesson and
suitable to student's levels.

This week I just observe Sciences, Math and English to know in near
of my MST's Science and my students that I have to prepare whole
week science lessons and teach them in next week. On Sunday, I
will start teaching my class whole science lesson with activities to
check their level academic.

Finally, I like my students, and I want to teach them in next week

and evaluate my teaching in science. So, I chose four lessons with
MST and prepared all resources that I need to teach children in
some periods in week two.