There are a few things that I need to continue to work on:
Instruction (I think I improved, but I could still give clearer instruction.)
Classroom management (phones! It was hard for me to be mean, but I tried. It worked! Many students do not use their phones as much now in my ESL level 3 class.)
Questioning (Refer back to Bloom’s Taxonomy! After attending the Pro-d ESL session, I have learned to include the specific vocabulary to question my students. By constantly using evaluate, assess or similar vocabulary in my questions, students will be more comfortable to answer the questions once they advance to the next level.)
Detailed lesson plan ( to identify the different types of assessment in my lesson plan and provide better intro and closure)
There are just two weeks left. I have to try my very best.

I got to attend a few teacher-parent conferences.  I just jotted down some notes about students’ strengths and weaknesses. I also prepared some students’ homework and projects in case the parents wondered what they were doing for assignments or in class.  I think I did a pretty decent preparation considering it was my first time to talk to the different parents. I learned quite a lot from my sponsor teachers. They would discuss both strengths and weaknesses of the students. They would also provide some suggestions to help the students improve, such as telling the parents about the peer-tutoring program or offering to check the student’s agenda each day to make sure they have written down the homework. It was quite interesting because I thought the parents might only want to know how their children were doing. However, no, they would also want to know if the students would do well next year. It was a fruitful night for me! Now I can a full picture of how to present a full report to the parents.

I had my last class with my grade 8s. My workload would be reduced down to 2. It was a relief because I got kind of burn out. At the same time, I could not imagine the following weeks without seeing the energetic cute grade 8 students. After I greeted them and they responded with “good morning, miss lui”, I told myself to remember this moment; it would be the last time I heard this choir-like adorable greetings. Before I asked students to provide individual feedback for me, they had a group activity to compare and contrast the book and the movie. It was interesting how much they disliked the movie. I would love to have more discussions or activities with the movie, but I just did not have much time. For example, I would love to have my students enact a scene or create a trailer as a project. In this case, they can further apply ethos, pathos and logos. They can also learn other skills, such as editing a video clip, inserting a background music into a video or adding captions. It would be so much fun. Oh well, I can leave all these ideas when I have my own class. After the group activity, they wrote down some feedback for me! 😀

Let’s review my grade 8 Humanities
I thought of Freier’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. In my humanities 8 classes, I tried not to spoon feed materials to my students. I do not want to treat my students as passive objects which I can fill them with knowledge and call that teaching. I think I have taken the initiative to create a dialogue with my students to discuss the different topics that revolved around the novel. I listened to their perspectives and learned how they formed these ideas; meanwhile, they learned some information from me. This was a two-way contribution. I also thought that by asking them to provide an expectation of me before I taught them and give me some feedback after I taught them allowed me to reflect my teaching strategies. I knew which activity they liked and which lesson was the most memorable for them. A few students were mature and observant enough to tell me what I needed to work on, such as better classroom management. I appreciated all of the honest sincere comments. It was interesting how students could really feel if you enjoyed teaching or not because that was what they told me in their feedback. 🙂