Daily activity

Date	Activities/Experiences	Strategies/methods/ Techniques observed	Learning/Insights
September 5-8	My cooperating teacher give me more time to observe her class, teaching strategies and also the behavior of the students.		Students has diverse behavior that I must prepared.
September 11	Our topic for today is demand. For my activity I let them write on a piece of paper how much they have as their pocket money for today and what things could they buy by their money. I choose at least five of my student to share their list in the class	Critical thinking	Activities that are much related and actually happen in students’ lives can actually be the best activities or motivation in the class.
September 14	Today, our class discussion revolves around other things that can affect demand aside from price. I let my students write about their experiences being a consumer. I choose at least five of my students to share their list in the class.	Learner-centered	Students sharing something about their experiences is a lot more fun for the students. And it’s not just all about fun for the students. And it’s not just all about fun but while they are having fun, they are also gaining some knowledge from the shared experiences.
September 18	Our topic is the other things that can affect demand aside from price. The activity that I did last meeting is the one I did today. But compare from last meeting, only few from my class are willing to share their experience.	Learner-centered	Students are different from each other.
September 19	Still, our topic today is other thing that affect demand aside from price. The classes that I’ve tought today are very eager to learn and very motivated because of the activity or motivation that I have made them which is the same activity from the other section.	Learner-centered	A class starts with a  smile and energy ends well.
September 20	Our topic for today is price elasticity. I made a list of product that my students daily consumes or their family consumes normally. But instead of its normal prices, I make its prices 10% higher. And I made them choose what products are they still willingly to buy even though it’s 10% higher. I choose at least five students to share their thoughts in the class.	Critical Thinking	Students willingly participate in the class if they can relate to the topic. And students can develop their critical thinking skills by just simply throwing questions that can help them think about reality of the world kind of things.
September 22,25	Our topic is types  of elasticity. I divided the class into four groups and they make a list of important and unimportant things or product that they consume every day. Each group presents their lists with a brief explanition	Brainstorming, cooperative learning, constructivism, learner-centered	Brainstorming and collaborative learning is a very effective method regardless of what type of learners are there in the group.
September 26	Our topic today is supply. I have given them two questions. These are : (1)  If you’re going to be a businessman someday, what kind of business would you pursue? (2) what do you think the key to be a successful businessman or businesswoman? These questions are answered by groups. I divide the class into four groups. Each group presents their answer in the class.	Critical thinking, Socratic method	Students are more likely active if they are usingtheir minds in a creative way.
September 27 & 28	There is a program this day, so I just checked my students quizzes.		Students always say that they understand the lesson even though they did not.
October 2,3 & 6	Our topic this days is about things that can affect supply. After I’ve explain briefly the things than can affect the supply. I’ve divided the class into five groups and they will make a short role play that shows how these things that I’ve explained affect the supply. Each group has different theme that I’ve assigned to them.	Brainstorming, cooperative learning, constructivism, learner-centered, Socratic method	Using psychomotor is really enjoyable for the students. Their creativity always shows up in these kinds of situations. They are not just having fun but they are also learning through these kind of activities.
October 9	Our topic for today is about price elasticity of supply. Since this topic is all about computation and math problems, I group them into four groups and we play a game that whichever group to solve the problems that I wrote on the board correctly will get a bonus points in the quiz today.	Brainstorming, cooperative learning, learner-centered.	Group works is the best. Students learned to cooperate and learn from others.
October 10	Today I gave them a quiz about our topic yesterday. We checked it and have a discussion about some parts that they don’t understand.	Assessment	Always encourage student to ask.
October 11&12	Our topic for today is about equilibrium in the market. Student write their experiences about bargaining in the market and share it to the class. Todays, I just introduce them the topic that we will going to have next meeting.	Experiential learning	Sharing students experiences and thoughts are always a good way to start a new topic.
October 13	Our topic today is the equilibrium in the market. Since I’m done with the introduction, discussion takes place this time. After I’ve discussed the topic, I group the class into four groups. They will search news related in the happenings in the market and they will perform it through broadcasting.	Brainstorming, cooperative learning, Constuctivism, learner-centered, Socratic method	Constructivism and/or collaborative learning are always effective method not just because they are having fun but because they are learning through their own way.
October 18	Our topic for today is shortage and surplus. I brought two boxes in my class with two different products in each box and different numbers. One is too much for the class and the other one is not enough for the whole class. I group the class into two and gave them fake money and they shop in the two boxes. At the end, the box with too much number of goods in it has many left while the other has none left. Each group analyze the situation and presented their hypothesis about the matter in the class.	Brainstorming, Cooperative learning, Constructivism, learner- centered, Socratic method	Discovery learning has a great effect in the retainment of the knowledge in the students. Since they discover it themselves, the chance of retainment of the knowledge has a big percent.
	Our topic for today is about the changes in the market. There are four happenings or changes in the market. I group the class into four groups and I assigned them each changes in the market. They will analyze each group that I’ve given them and they will present their hypothesis in the class	Brainstorming, Cooperative Learning, Constuctivism, Learner-Centered, Socratic method	The more they think about how thingshappen or the more they construct to themselvesthe higher the chance of the retainment of learning for the students.
October 26-27	Periodical Exam
November 2 & 3	Today is the start of the 3rd grading period. Our topic is the cycle of the economy. In this topic, we had a discussion about this and I make sure that I explained this carefully to my students because this topic is quite hard. So to avoid confussion, I discussed it to them and make them repeat it for their classmates.	Socratic method	My cooperating teacher always told me to always treat my students as elementary students because athough they said that they understand, sometimes they really don’t.
November 6,7 & 8	Our topic to this days are national income. I started this topic with a simple question, “how would you know if a person is rich?” after a few answers of my students’ basis of what a person needs to have to be called rich, I connected it to our topic.	Question and Answer, Socratic method	Always start the lesson to a simple question that the students know because it will trigger something in the students that will lead to their interest or it might motivate them as well
November 9	Dryrun
November 16	Dry run
November 20	Final Demonstration
November 21,22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29	Our topic is the Imperialism and Colonialism, I will divided the class into 5 groups, each group analyze the imperialism and colonialism to the country that I assigned to them. And they discussed it on the other day.	Brainstorming, Cooperative learning	Cooperative learning and brainstorming is the best way.
December 1	Today I gave them a quiz about our topic yesterday. We checked it and have a discussion about some parts that they don’t understand.	Assessment	Always encourage student to ask
December 4 &  5	Our topic is nationalisms. I start to the discussion with the questions. First is “what is nationalism to them?” I choose five students to discussed their answers. And second is “how should they show their nationalism”?	Question and Answer	Teacher should always encourage their student to show their perspective.
December 6, 7, 8 & 11	Campus practices for culmination Activity		Student always encourage to review their lesson.
December12 & 13	Since the next days are unit test. I will review my students to the topic I teached to them.	Question and Answer	Students always say that they understand the lesson even though they did not.
December 14 & 15	Unit Test
December 18	Culminating activity		Hosting a acivity like culminating is not easy but it’s fun and enjoyable. But it is not only like that because it build cooperation and  collaboration.