Radiance

Just by reminiscing the experience we had in teaching the children in San Mateo, Rizal puts a smile on my face. It’s not surprising though since it was undeniably the best experience I ever had in a community setting so far. Seeing those children smile while giving their best effort in performing the activity was something that gave me a valuable joy as one of their teachers.

Being a facilitator of learning to those children was very fun yet tiring experience because we need to match the level of their energy all throughout the session. Good thing that we managed to be flexible enough in dealing with them. It was good that we planned a variety of teaching strategies early on to accommodate any unexpected occurrences before and during the teaching session. We considered the importance of having activities that were suitable for the age range of the learners. Also, it was good that we provided a dance activity at the beginning of the session because it built the bond between the teacher and the learner thus motivating the children to engage early on. We also provided tokens to motivate them to participate fully while incorporating the lessons in a story which caught the attention of the children to listen and learn at the same time.

Things to improve include team work and how we should end the session. It would be more fitting to end the session right after its peak which is in our case after the hand washing activity. Because we noticed that the attention of the children slowly drifted apart after engaging on it. Moreover, since there were only 4 students, delegating one teacher per child would maximize the opportunity to guide individual learner throughout the session.

Lastly, it would be suitable to just prepare for the unexpected.