Journal Entry

04/08/2020

 During this day, there are many things that I learnt about teaching strategies.  Things that I discovered are inclusion strategies which can be used to address the learning challenges of all students, especially those from marginalized groups, the second one is creating a classroom atmosphere of mutual respect and acceptance amongst students and the last but not the least is the engagement of both boys and girls equally in all learning activities. And this is also part of how you manage your classroom. 

First of all, one of the most important things that I should do in order to promote effective teaching in the school is to develop teaching strategies or methods that are inclusive so that I can easily meet all the learning challenges of all students, especially the disabled ones. What I have been discovered was that teachers need to be skillful and knowledgeable in how to cater the need of each student so that everyone can be fully satisfied and learn at their fullest potential. For the last activity that I provided to students, I provided them the marking rubric so that they could evaluate their own work and could make improvement . Also, during the presentation, I encouraged them to present their work with an interpreter. I showed them that I really care about their learning and because I did that, they fully participated in all learning activities since they felt motivated by me. For me, this experience is a very good one which I really enjoyed it because most of them including those kids achieved what I expected for them to achieve in the learning.

Secondly, in this week I also learnt how to create the learning environment of mutual respect and acceptance amongst students. For me, doing this I can create a very effective learning environment. For example, during classes I always let the student spoke their minds and after that even though he or she make mistakes but what most important is to give them back our positive reinforcement so that they could feel motivated, accepted and valued throughout the learning process. This is what is most important and this can possibly boost the students’ participation in the learning process. When they make outstanding efforts, I felt so happy and because of that, I told one of the students to show our appreciation to give a special applause. This strategy is one of the greatest ways that I found which can motivate the kid in the learning process.

Finally, engaging both boys and girls equally in all learning activities is one of the greatest way to promote inclusive education. I discovered that engaging them equally inside the classroom, each of everyone can feel safe, accepted, comfortable and valued. During the pair work, I allowed students to select their partners that opposite their sex to work together and share their ideas. By doing this, I found that those students really enjoyed working with their opposite sex and they contributed to the learning process. Not just that but also, in the group activity I always make the number of gender balanced. Also, doing other activities like the gardening, cleaning and so forth, I allowed girls to do the boys’ job and boys to do the girls’ job. By doing all of these, I engaged both boys and girls in the same way and that is fair for them to be treated as one.

To conclude, it is very important for the teacher to be creative in her or his teaching strategies in order for him or her to cater all the different needs of students’ learning. Also, the classroom that has a mutual respect and acceptance atmosphere is one of the best learning environment which can empower the participation and the performance of the students. In addition, it is crucial for all teachers to treat all students equally even though they are different but what is really important is to be fair to anyone and that could motivate their participation.