Date for Entry: (Wednesday 9th November, 2016)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (Monday 15th November, 2021)
Dear Diary,
This afternoon was the last class for my “Introduction to
Music Education” and today I had to dress up as a teacher and got to class in
preparation to teach my whole class as part of the coursework. This will be the
final assessment for the whole course (100% exam) since there is no written end of the examination. Mrs. Joseph teamed us up in groups of two and three. I was teamed
up with Samantha and our assigned topic to teach that day was Key
Signatures.
I made some notes on a flashcard to remember what I had to
do but in terms of fright and forgetting, I just went with the flow and see
what needed to be said as we were taking turns and also, I just decided at the
time during teaching to speak my mind in a friendlier way. It was like a
conversation between teacher and student and I try to make things fun.
During one part of my several turns, I spoke about the
use of key signature as punctuation like driving a car on the road, where one
car driver decides to go driving on the right-hand side. My friend Adam in the
back said “Boom” while the others in the class had finished their laughter from
that. I took that as a smile in my mind and said loudly, “Yes! Boom!” The whole
class laughed out again. When they finished I said, “And you can also have Bam
too!” Miss Joseph laughed out and said “Oh My God!”
Another point where I made the class laugh out again was
when There was this extremely long chat that I did with Samatha’s assistance on
Monday at two in the evening, we met at school to decide on what charts we had
to do since it all had to show that we were poor and had to do everything
ourselves. So, when we had to put up this long chart, Natasha came and helped
us put on Masking tape we borrowed from Kayla on the back and then it was an old kind so we used our one instead. As they put it put on the wall, I
took the marked part of my hands and hit the whiteboard side to make it stick
properly. The class laughed out so loudly again and I hit another chart to go
on the wall.
In closing, we had to give them a definition that Samantha held up and I read aloud for the class. I helped her carry our posters back to our seats so the next group could go on. It was way past seven o'clock when the entire class had finished. I then took a quick run to the toilet and on my way and I saw Mr. Murry and Mr. Sharma talking by the door talking. Mr. Murray looked at me with a big smile watching my clothes. He told me he liked the tie.
Before class finished, I managed to save some of the handouts and evaluation sheets that they had created as part of their presentation as well. The other groups are mentioned on the following sheets along with the name of the topic they were given to teach.
Link(s):
- Lesson Plan.
- Handouts from other Groups.
- Picture of Posters made for the Presentation. [NOT SAVED]
Daryl Zion M. Ali
