My Teaching Toolbox

Classes are about to start amd since I'll be living in a boarding house yet again (goodluck with that), i have to preapere all my stuff so that i won't have to go back and forth our house and UP.

Plus, now that I'm officialy an EDUC major, it's about time that i get to have one of these.

MY TEACHING TOOLBOX

Well basically it's not the like the toolbox my dad has with all his philips, negatives, screws, knots and bolts. Intead of those what my mine has are adheseives, measuring tools, writing instruments and what have you--stuff that most teachers need (especially by preschool teachers like me).

However, my toolbox ain't complete yet. Marami pa ako gusto ilagay. For one, I would really like to have an Elmer's Adhesive spray. Instead of using masking tape to post my visual aids, i'd simply have to spray the adhesive spray and stick whatever i want to stick onit. Yun lang, di na sya maalis hehehe. Still cool though.

just can't wait to use my 'tools' this coming sem

SEE YA!

Warts and Storytelling

Got my warts on my face cauterized plus my killoids in my chest from skin asthma injected earlier. But before the cauterizing, the doctor had to anaethesia on my face then taped over the warts as a sort of marker. Hahah i looked funny. Tapes on my faces. hahaha

I forgot to blog my small achievement this week--
My classmates in children's literature voted me as the best storyteller in class so I get to be sponsored by the Department of Reading to the storytelling workshop this coming weekend--an event i have been anticipating and excited about for over a month now. Wahoo!!!

Plus, my Teaching in the early grades professor texted me and it seems like i will be the next student assitant of the department. Wahoo again!. The department head, Dr. Pado will be talking to me tomorrow. hmmmm... what about?

A long update

It has been a while since I posted a decent blog entry. So, here goes what things i did over the past week:

(more pictures at http://themistermistaker.multiply.com)

FEB 17
My Lil Sis' Debut

(This picture taken by kuya Ronnie, the family photographer)

Held at Cecile's restaurant's cue room, it was a gathering where family, relatives, friends, classmates, schoolmates and choirmates came to eat hahahaha (so was my intention!).

With the 70's theme, there were dance, songs, and instrument playing numbers for my lil sis (who isn't lil anymore) which i'm pretty sure she really appreciated.

I can't imagine that me and my sister are almost past the teenage years. I can still imagine that day when the word "debut" was but a word in my vocabulary, without realizing what it really is all about, now its my sister having hers. (sighs).

Changes yet again.

Anyways, here are 5 cool things about her debut:

1. Food was, of course, great
2. Close family and friends came--the ususal 18 candles, 18, roses, and 18 wishes were very intimate and personalized by my sister ( i really liked the 18 wishes part where my sis introduced each of her good friends)
3. I didn't piok in my song number for my lil sis (angel by sarah machlachlan). haha. Imagine the confidence i had to sing in front of music majors!
4. The number and dances were like SOP and ASAP combined. Fun!
5. Met her dormates and classmates (whom she really loves so much) so now whenever she tells stories about them, i woulnd't have to imagine vague faces.

hay... i guess we do grow up.
I love my sis. Love you!
(",)

FEB 19
DEMO Teaching at UPIS

After weeks of prepartation (including 5 revisions of our lesson plan: LP and days ofr visual aid prep), I finally had my first ever demo teaching at the UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILPPINES INTEGRATED SCHOOL (UPIS) in the kinder level section sampaguita under teach Yvette.

Equipped with my 2 sems worth of knowledge from EDTEG 101 and 102, i struggled to keep them listening and focused on whatever it is we were teaching by applying the things i've learned. And as it is always, theory is way different from practice.

It was really hard. The first hour came as okay, with me starting off with a poem Five Little Monkeys then later telling them the story of our LP entitled Five Little Monkeys with Nothing to Do and so on. But when the second hour entered, slikes! They turned into rowdy little tykes!

I even had to get some sort of angry with them (but not really) trying my best to assert my authoriy over them which was really hard.

FEB 23
Watching 3 Performances All in One Day

2 recitals @ St. Scho's St. Cecilia's auditorium where my sister performed. We (ate Mean and I) then stayed for the second show to wacth my sister's friends whom we met at her debut.

She was as usual great--very confident, composed, relaxed. And as always, she closed her eyes while preforming, feelt her song and just hit her notes right--diggin' it.

NICE!

Then @ 7:30 pm went with Koro Stigmatino to watch the Ateneo College Glee club @ the Philamlife theater (where our MD is a guest member). Kinda cool. Great perfoamance but was a bit dragging for it was a straight LISTEN-TO-US-SING show. Wala lang, they sang. ehheeh. But they sounded great!

Had a late dinner in Kimono sumtin in blue wave, Macapagal Av.. Ordered Oyakudon which tasted great but was at a not- a-student-friendly price. My savings got depleted. Hehehe

demo teach: teach mike

had my first ever demo teaching sa UPIS kahapon
sobrang saya and exhausting both at the same time

kids were cute and lovabale pero rowdy and mischievous din
someone cried ihd to comfort him
soeomen got angry. i had to talk to him
someone was noisy, i had to reprimand him

basta ang saya
will be fixing this entry later
after weeks of prep time, especially the 5 days beofre the actual demo, pagod na akmi ehhehe
I enjoyed every bit of it though

hope to improve as a pedagogist

Tandem Storytelling

(Czar in black and Kristoff)

Performed tandem storytelling ealier in EDR 121

I and Czar interpreted the book Pikpakbum at Tiktaktok, ang magkapatid na laging nagaaway in front of our classmates, professor and two semi-pro storytellers, which was kinda nerve-wrecking and cool at the same time.

I guess we did pretty fine for two storyteller newbies

I kinda enjoyed it actually.

Wish I can attend a storytellers' workshop this coming summer because i'm simply falling in-love with tis particular art.
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Orgmates are somewhat pushing me to run for Formation Director for Applicants (FDA).
A part of me wants to but a bigger chunk of me just won't:

1. I'm not sure if I'm up for more responsibilities
2. I'm in a pit and I can't get out of it.

Failed to Drop

EDSC 126

Had our class at NISMED (National Institute for Science and Mathematics Edcuation Development), a few buildings away from the College of Educ. The lab-classroom was really nice, it was similar to those lab-classrooms of Japan--well-lit with big windows, spacious, and simply conducive to learning.

We were presented with materials which the institute has been developing to teach Math in the elementary grades. Cool maipulatives! Syempre, kahit late ako, ang kulit ko pa rin dahil na-excite ako sa mga laruan hahaha. Really, I can't stop the kid in me, a reason why i'm really enjoying my course right now.

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Tried to drop a subject earlier (PI100) but the professor told me to at least try to take the exam which won;t happen until next week. Well, i really wanted to restart the subject for a more in-depth understanding of the topics but I guess it isn't a good reasonto drop.

Anyways, it was my first time to TOUCH and get hold of a dropping slip (the blue form).
Nakakahiya pala siyang ilabas, nagtitinginan lahat ng tao (well, maybe it was just me being paranoid hahaha)

hmmm... what to do?

Hide and Seek

We squirted paint.
We played hide and seek.

Cool day. It started out with us squirting paint on pieces of paper as part of our classmate's microteaching in EDTEG 102 on ART.

Then, in the afternoon, we played hide and seek at my EDR 121 (children's lit) class. We got to hide in the entire Educ building. As punsihment for those who came in late and for those whose group presentation was kind of unclear, they were the ones who were IT. Haha! I won. I got to receive 5 pieces of jelly ace. What was kind of funny though was that when I decided nobody's will ever going to find me (I hid at the open cloister, behind the auditorium. haha) i went back to the classroom just to find all of them already there, listening to Tecah Portia's new lesson. Haha. At least I won.

Like every day, today ended with ideas generated on my long way home (mostly on the MRT ride):

1. I soooo want to have a boarding house again so that I could join the UP Volleyball Club and UP Singing Ambassadors.

2. I have just finished collecting the papers for shifting. Now, all i have to do is write a letter of intent.

3. I am really considering dropping PI 100 (rizal studies) beacuse aside from it is eating so much of my time, the professor is plainly evil--imagine laughing at someone dying. Weird. Too much for my below sea-level consciousness. But just in case, I would be taking the subject under her again. I'm just not ready right now.

Blah blah blah.

Storytelling workshop tomorrow
Pi 100 report rin (blastingly irritating)

2 busy-humiliating-entertaining days

6 December 2007

I damaged a house.
Litterally.
I was in the attic of our choirmate's house looking for the Christmas tree to be put up when poof...the floor (which is the ceiling of the master's bedroom) gave way. Luckily, my reflexes worked and saved me from the crash. Kahit na. Nakakahiya.

Not one of my proudest moments.
Yet, I find it a comedic scene. Haha.
Sorry po talaga tita.

7 December 2007
EDTEG 102:

We surprised our Professor (Teach Diaz) with a mini birthday presentation for her--complete with a skit, dance, pseudo-cake and greetings--, just to find out that her birthday wasn't until the 5th of January. Hahaha. Nakakahiya na naman. Nevertheless, she said she was really touched and surprised (surprise nga naman, kasi di naman niya birthday. hahaha).

Then, our topic for the day was about toys. How cool could that get?--types of toys and what not. Teach brought samples of toys and we were asked to play with each of them. And among all the toys, this is my favorite:

Modeled by Ei

This is an example of a divergent toy where there is NO one way of playing with it, rather you can be creative and imagine ways on how it can be manipulated. Cool huh?

EDR 121 (children's lit):

Imagine having a children's book illustrator and a writer seating with us in the same classroom. Astig. We got them answering for us questions about their expertise (they are the ones seating by the door--Leo Alvarado and _________). It came as no surprise that they are issues between publishers, writers and illustrators that are quite sad to tell.

Then afterwards, naglaro pa kami ng pabitin at palayok game. Astig. Daming candies. Of course I didn't it them (read: sugar haha). Still, it was really fun.

That is my teacher holding the rope. Go teach!

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I ended the day by watching the gala concert of my brother's school choir, SIGLO of the Bloomfield Academy (my elem alma mater), which was kinda cool. I really liked the song "ilong." Syempre, daig na naman ako ng kapatid ko pagdating sa facial expression.

educ

I'm on my third week on my third year of college...

i didn't get admitted to Speech Pathology (which sucked BIG time) so i'm still in UP Diliman with no course and on the verge of getting kicked out from the campus for not having any college to house me. Bad.

The good thing is, i got only one course left that i really want--Education. I've tried all the courses i want and i am left with this one. After years of denying that i want to be teacher, i guess i will be afterall.

I currently have three EDUC subjects--putting on my "carreer" face, reciting as much as i can, doing advance reading and what not. I actually am enjoying them since I grew up with a school beside my house anyways. I am slowly understanding what i have been observing my entire life.

I do want to be teacher. But i wanted to specialized in speech first. Well. at least my speech comm VS speech Path dilemma is so out of my head. whcih is kinda cool.

Im still not sure if i will be accepted to educ by next year, but i guess God did place me where I am now. Konting faith pa and prayer. He won't forsake me no matter how much of a sinner i am.