"Every child has a learning style and pace. Each child is unique, not only capable of learning but also capable of succeeding." - Robert John Meehan
I want to reflect the beautiful quote stated above, that children have individual differences. Some bloom early and others have late development. As we are made special by God, each one of us has a different purpose here on earth.
Hello hivers, how's life going on? I hope everything is fine! Join me on my blog today,as I reveal my experience as a classroom teacher. My work is not easy with regards in handling many learners coming from different families. Having different behavior and different learning abilities.
It is my duties and responsibilities to assess my children accordingly to give the right remediation for them. I may encounter different situations every year but I made sure to cope up with it.
Teaching children is not a problem if only children can easily understand the lesson but as I've said, they have individual differences. To support the vision - mission of the Department of Education, I need to find different strategies on how to help learners with learning problems.
They prepared a flowers for me on my birthday.
How precious they are! Teaching them with love is the best way that a teacher can offer. No matter what their ability, embracing their individual differences can make my day smooth and unflappable.
One of the major problems I have is poor reading ability, which leads to poor reading comprehension. A learner cannot keep up with the class if he or she reads slowly, thinks slowly and acts slowly. To eradicate the learning problems of the children in my class here, are my strategies.
A remediation with literacy peer teaching.
I usually use our vacant time for oral reading remediation. This way, I can slowly develop their reading abilities. I ask a good reader to help with their classmates with reading. I give them a copy of basic sight words and then let them read a phonetic words.
Learners need follow- up at home to enhance their reading abilities. However, the problem is that their parents are already tired from working everyday to earn a living. They always rely on teachers, not knowing that they have obligations to their children, too.
Expressing difficult words through actions can help the learners think about how to read the words shown. Sometimes I exclude the slow readers from the activity and prefer them to read with me, one by one. It is really a long journey to realize how to improve the reading ability of my learners, but I know that keeping my fighting spirit will fulfill my determination towards vision.
As I see their faces, I know they are trying their best too. I always encouraged them to cooperate with me and spend their free time reading.
I introduce them with a phonetic words everyday, and I let them write on their paper for four days repeating the same words for mastery until Friday, when they will use their spelling booklet. I prefer to use a Horn Method in spelling. They will read and spell the same words for five days, and I am sure they will not forget about the words they encounter everyday.
Feeding time: Children are eating Benignit during their snack time.
To lessen up the boredom, we agreed to cook benignit. Everyone is very happy while eating benignit. I know that doing this can surely help my children gain weight, and hopefully I can feed them twice a week. I know that a happy tummy can bring a happy individual.
What are the contributing factors to poor reading ability?
These are the following factors:
Poor nutrition: they don't have a balance diet, and due to poverty, they usually have a dried fish, hotdogs, noodles as their lunch. Whatever food they eat in the morning will last until in the afternoon. That makes the children insufficiently nourished with the required nutrients that the body needs.
Family problem: some of them come from broken families, they are left by their gramdmother or grandfather. They don't feel the love of their parents.
Illness: Children experiencing health problems might affect their performance in school.
Poverty: is a situation where children sacrifice different needs in health, school, and social life.
Lack of interest due to poor nutrition, poverty, and lack of support from their parents.
Reflection:
Being the second mother to my children in school, I always look out of their welfare. It has been my desire to produce globally competitive learners. May my passion for teaching always encourage me to teach my children with emphaty, patience, and perseverance.
Nurturing the new generations of learners is very challenging. Managing my time as a teacher and writing different stories that cross my mind in my free time is very productive on my part.
Until next time, thank you for spending your little time on my blog. God bless us all!
Keep up the good work Ma'am @simplybil❤️Every success of our learner is our achievement being their teacher.Congratulations❤️I know you are loved by your pupils because you are really a good teacher🙂Thanks for sharing❤️
Thank you so much for the encouragement ma'am @lovingmers.
You are a great teacher maam @simplybil. Making your vacant time as their remediation is another remarkable job you did on their lives.
I am worried about their reading abilities, I want them to improve their performance in school. All my hardworks paid off when together we smiled after remediation. Thank you for dropping by on my blog ma'am @selflessgem
You are welcome maam😊
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It is my pleasure that you take your time on my blog @hivebuzz, thank you for always supporting blogger like me.
You're welcome @simplybil, it's well deserved! Congrats on your constant involvement on Hive 😊👍
Hello ma'am @simplybil, It's fantastic to see such a good educator and mother figure to your students. I have doubts about choosing this career path at times, but seeing you like it makes me even more encouraged and thrilled to one day be like you.😇👩🏫
Teaching maybe a stressful work but a meaningful one especially when we see our learners respecting on us, treating us like their second mother. It is very fulfilling when our learners succeed and able to reach their dreams. Thank you @nineglimpse for spending your time on my blog.
Every pupil's success is a teacher's happiness. Great job ma'am @simplybil may you continue to be a blessing to these children and the incoming children.❤️
Salute to all the teachers who did great in teaching the students. There are times that we cannot took care of ourselves because we are focusing to all our learners. Hahaha gasinaw lang akong agtang🥰😂
😅 sagdi lag sinaw, nagpasabot nga nalampasuan🤗
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You are a great teacher Ma'am. I really admire your dedication to teach the students and give them the best quality of education that they deserve❤️
Working hard to produce quality education to my learners ma'am, thank you so much for your time reading my blog.
Teachers must always consider that each student bloom at their own pace, and they have their own light that shines because of the seven multiple intelligences available. Our modern day hereos indeed, kudos to all hardworking teachers like you ma'am @simplybil ☺︎♡
Kudos to teachers like you ma'am!
I wish to see the day that a politician can prioritize the needs and improvement of our education.
Thank you for the kind wishes to our education system sir @scion02b, hopefully our secretary of education can study more on how to improve our education system. I really appreciate your kind words towards my blog sir!