First week

5 Jan 2007

I really thank God for the first 3 days of school. I am very satisfied with what had happened so far. To date, I feel that I have conducted 2 lessons that managed to excite the students and made them more interesting in what they do.

Today, I focused on oral reading when we were doing comprehension and the desire to use points to spice up the lesson came back again. As I carried out the lesson, I actually developed a new strategy and it works extremely well.

Here's how it goes.
My class is divided into teams this year. There are altogether 4 teams. Marks are awarded for each team for every correct answer. The teams take turns in answering. Once the activity ends, their marks are tallied and then the winner will be awarded one point. These points awarded will be collated over a period of time. What I have done is to make the point system two-tiered. A new variant!

So far, I have been successful in using the new monitoring method for my students. I hope I can keep it up. Upon reflection, what I had done wrong recently was because I don't have a very clear system of tracking and training of my student leaders to help me. May God help me to sustain this.