Last Saturday was one of the days I have been anxious about. It was the day of my teaching demo. It was supposed to be held on August 29 but it was moved a week after. The teaching demo is part of our Instructional Supervision subject. Our classmates will evaluate us as teachers while our professor will evaluate us on how good we are in evaluating teachers because our subject’s main focus is on how to supervise a teacher.

I left home an hour and a half early to prepare for my demo. I was prepared but still, I felt anxious about it. When I reached school, the series of unfortunate event started. My brassiere was trying to show off that I decided to buy a safety pin to partially close my blouse. But the cloth of my blouse didn’t allow the safety pin to penetrate into it. So what I did, I stapled my blouse! I was so sweaty inside the comfort room. It was totally embarrassing to the students around me. Then, the blazer that I’ve been using for ages also didn’t cooperate with me! The zipper didn’t work as well. Argh! After letting go the thought of zipping my blazer, I tried to check the projector we borrowed. I found out that it was a different projector. We had to go back to the office to borrow the projector for laptops and not for acetates. When we were setting up the projector and my Su-Ji¹, we found out that Su-Ji was not compatible with our school’s projector. We went down to the office again to borrow their laptop. But still, it didn’t work. We went back to the office for the third time to borrow another projector…  We were wrong when we thought it would already work. So, we had to think of another plan. Good thing, my classmate suggested that we divide the class into two groups and provide one laptop for each group to watch the slides we prepared.

You know, when I started my demo I was sooooooooooooo nervous! I didn’t have the time to rest, to breathe in and breathe out, to relax… I had to start right away because we already took 30 minutes of the time just setting up the whole damn thing. I tried to relax in the middle of my demonstration and I thank my classmates for cooperating.

After my demo, which exceeded the allotted 30-45 minutes, our professor asked for their comments. I was surprised when they said that it was amazing that I was relaxed and I was well composed. Wow! Does that mean they didn’t notice how nervous I was? Then, I am a great pretender! Haha! Here are the other comments I received: “Her topic is well organized…” “She was able to carry herself well as a teacher and was able to motivate the students to apply what she was teaching…” “She was able to connect with the students using humor…” From those comments, our professor even told me that I owe them something for those positive comments because there were more positive comments than negative ones. Well, the negative comment was that I wasn’t able to explain some of the important points. Yeah, I was quite in a hurry then. Haha! But still, it was unbelievable that I received such positive comments. I thank my classmates for the constructive criticisms. I know that it would help me to improve my teaching skills.

Despite the series of unfortunate event that happened before my demo, I thank God for helping me to survive my teaching demo with a positive outcome. Our professor told me that she graded me SUPERIOR which is second to EXCELLENT. That’s a great news. :)

So there, one down and three to go: thesis, theory and abstract. Oh no! I wonder how I will be able to do this in 2 weeks!

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