It did not feel like I had been teaching in this school for 3 weeks, at Anuban Lampang School.
This week, we could carry out the final exam or final demo and my supervisor chose Thursday to be the day for me to carry out the final exam for this program. In the afternoon at 1.30 pm after lunch, my supervisor came and asked me to prepare everything I would need to carry out the final demo, from the lesson plan and also the media that I would use to teach my students today. Then I asked my friend from Vietnam to help me to take some pictures and also helped me to arrange the seating for my mentor and my supervisor in the classroom. But my mentor teacher, Marco, could not attend due to his sudden illness, and then my mentor was replaced by my Thai teacher.
When the final exam was about to begin, I prepared myself and did not forget to pray that everything would be carried out well. Then I entered the class to teach my students. In class, I felt very nervous but my supervisor told me to be calm and don’t think too much, do what you should do because everything will be missed. In class, all of my students really understand my situation; they became very good students and also orderly organizing themselves. They listened to my instructions well and also did not make a problem. I invited my students to dance and sing together. At this point, I thought they would enjoy it more and also would be very happy while studying. The material I gave them was about how to make a tornado in the bottle. I asked them to come forward and made their own tornado in the bottle. The materials were from bottle and water and they tested their experiments themselves.
It was clear on their faces, my students were very curious about the results of their experiments, they went to the front of the class to make their own tornadoes, and as a result they all managed to create their own tornadoes. Many students felt very excited and also they gave me a lot of questions, and I had to answer one of their questions correctly so that they understood. After all the students successfully tried to make their own tornadoes, I asked them to sit back in an orderly manner and asked them to express their opinions about the material I gave and one of my students answered that he was very excited because he could create their own tornadoes and this is the first time for her to see the tornado in the bottle. Me, as a teacher, felt very happy and proud because my students were so interested in the material that I provided.
Finally, At 2.30 pm I ended the lesson by saying “Thank you for your attention, see you next week my students” and then I ended today’s final exam with great satisfaction and happiness. After that, my supervisor said to me that I was suitable to be a teacher because I could handle classes very well, but the way I taught was like teaching at senior high school, so seriously that my students to be serious too. My supervisor said I was excellent and then I was so happy. For the first time, I thought that this was going to be hard for me because before that my students were so active in the classroom, but today my students were so serious. I didn’t know why. But I loved it. After that, my supervisor and I took a picture together. Finally I could pass the final exam, I could breathe well.
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