RE-SL Little Wings

I'll start with a very honest statement:lesson 2 was a disaster. And I certainly did little to help.

First, on the lesson. Only 10 of the 20 chirldren came probably because it was raining. We later learnt that most of the children had forgetten what we taught. What we taught wasnt very good either. Using complex words like 'background' to teach complex abstract ideas didn't work. The children simply didn't understand it. We also ended up dragging for 15 minutes. Well in plain words, the lessons were just too complicated as we are so used to interact with people of our intelectual capicity and overestimated the children. Well, we have to make the words simpler. First, we could trade our wordy ppt slides into ones that was filled with pictures as children can understand them. Secondly, i think that we could actually lower our expectations of the children or, in other words make: other lessons simpler. They take a much longer time than us to learn. We could focus our lessons on one point instead if teaching multiple things(teaching background trees........). Finally, we should either make our lessons shorter or ask for a longer time period.

Now, time to reflect on myself. I wasn't very helpful, lying down at the back of the class and doing almost nothing. I was stressed from the CTs, SYF and was sick..........but thats only part of the excuse. I simply wasn't bothered that day, maybe because only ten children came. But then, I should have know better to behave well and at least help the children by clarifying stuff with them. I also should be better behaved in public as I am wearing the shcool uniform. This shall not be repeated.

Enough bad things sad, so let me end on a lighter note:our group has adopted a better plan to make the lessons easier. I am opimistic that lessons will be better, with Ms See reminding the parents to send their children to lessons and us relising our mistakes.

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