A REFLECTIVE PAPER

As everybody says that life of a teacher is never that easy, he should be a role model and a
good example to everyone. As an individual engaged to this kind of profession, he must first
possess all the traits that will make him to be a stronger and a better person. Most especially on
dealing with students of different personalities. All children misbehave at some time; it is part
of finding out what appropriate behavior is and where the limits are. Children may throw
tantrums, test the rules, start fights, refuse to cooperate with the teacher’s house rules and
routines, use bad language—the list goes on. As the teacher teaches students appropriate
behavior, what the expected rules and boundaries are all about, it's important to remember the
goals of discipline. Discipline means helping a child develop self-control and a sense of limits,
experience the consequences of his/her behavior, and learn from his/her mistakes. Discipline
does not mean punishment or conflict between the teacher and students. All of them need the
security of knowing the rules and boundaries of behavior; without them they feel at a loss, and
later on they become abusive. Positive reinforcement is the best technique for encouraging
wanted behavior. Most students crave attention and acceptance from the teacher and will
work to get it. Rewards are not bribes; they are ways to show to student that she is doing a
good job. But in the end, the teacher must be clear, firm and specific about what you mean, be
respectful. Don't resort to name-calling or yelling. And the consequence should follow the
behavior immediately. The consequence should be fair in relation to the behavior.

SAMPLES OF STUDENTS’ FEEDBACK

Run-through teaching is the most exciting part in the education curriculum yet the most
crucial because student-teachers play a vital role like professional teachers do.

At first, you don’t know how to deal with the new crowd of people, you have to learn first how to be
an upright friend to them, a mentor, a
brother, then later on as teacher. It would be a prodigious honor if you treat yourstudents like
your family, because they can open up to you.

Students’ feedback could be either in the form of words or being shown emotionally. From my
experiences in my in-campus practice teaching, I required my students to write what they feel
about me, what are the traits that they like in me and the things that made them hate me.
The purpose of that is to secretly evaluate my teaching performances as well as my relationship
with the students. I know deep inside me that I am a stringent teacher and yes I really am, but I
don’t have any idea how I made my students to respect me as how
they treat their professional teachers, shown me love and cares. And I am so grateful with
the feed-backs that were expressed through letters, though there were suggestions but I know
that those are constructive ones.

I also know that it is not only me who will treasure the rapports that we built but as well as they
will also keep every good moment that we had until the end of time.
SAMPLES OF LEARNERS’ WORK

In the teaching- learning process, learners’ work plays the most important role. This is on way of
assessing the students’ performance for that certain subject matter. Either they have absorbed
the information from the deliberations or need further discussion among the teacher and the
learners, evaluate the students’ standing; the strengths and weaknesses in that certain topic.
Teacher can also determine how the students are responsive to the task assigned to them.
Somehow, some factors are to be considered in terms of assessing the teacher and students’
performance. In my case, I often give an evaluation to my students’ just right after the
discussion as part of my lesson plan to determine if they have absorbed the information or if
they’ve jotted down some important information in their lecture notes. But, as part of the
traditional ways of teaching, teachers give an evaluation either projects, activities, assignments,
chapter test, long quiz, or unit test aside from the periodical examination in every quarter of the
school year. More prominently, the learners’ work is one way of determining if both the teacher
and students were able to attain the objectives of the topic intended for that day. Recalling back
my erudition in my education subjects’ way back from my first year to third year, I’ve learned
that learners’ work serves as the echo of the teacher’s
performance, since it gives a view as to how the teacher executed his/her teaching strategies,
methods, techniques, and approaches during the process. It also gives a replication to the
teacher if he/she is an effective one.