REFLECTION 9

For this final reflection, Madam asked us to choose which the most interesting mock teaching is. Since all the teachers are my classmates and I will say all of them did their best teaching. 

Thus, I prefer Miss.Hema ‘s mock teaching which is an English subject and the topic she thought was “Abstract Nouns and Concrete Nouns”. I feel as I go back to my primary school and I also miss those memories held at there. 

Well when Miss.Hema is teaching, I found that she is really outing a lot of effort to make sure that the students understand her lessons better. Her notes also were short and straight to the point where the students will easily understand and apply it in their daily life. She looked as a strict and also a fun to be with person. Thus, she can manage the class in any situation with her strict character and also making jokes to entertain her students

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And after her lessons she also came up with her own creativity idea of games according to the lessons she thought. By these games, she can make the students to stay active and not to feel boring, and she also can make the students to recall back her lessons that thought. This will ensure that a teacher can manage to recall back her lessons through her games and can make her students to remember the lessons in an easy and better way.

I think a teacher should follow Miss.Hema’s teaching process and techniques to make sure that their lessons and class to be valuable, not making it too bored and invaluable.

Thank you. 

Reflection 8

Hello everyone,

Well for this week reflection I would like to summarize all about my journey for my Mock Teaching. I should thank Madam because she gave us a guideline to proceed the mock teaching step by step.

At first, Madam asks us to submit the Learning Objective, Learning Outcomes, Topic, Timing, and so on. This is to ensure that we know what we going to teach and what the students will be learned. 

Then, Madam told us to create our own designed PowerPoint which consists of the topic that we going to teach. She thought us on how to create a proper and better PowerPoint and how to moderate the PowerPoint. Finally she thought us on how to complete a full report of mock teaching.

For my mock teaching, my subject would be Mathematics and I choose Creating Challenges Method. 

And it was really fun when I teach my students (my classmates) and they also learned the topic that I thought them. When I start, I explained them to my students about the most famous topic in Mathematics which is “Algebraic Expression” for Form 2 students. Then, I explained them according to the PowerPoint slides notes. I also give them some activities to know further about the topic. Once they understand well about the topic, I give them some games to participate which is Kahoot and also Group Game.  I guide them on how to handle and participate in that game and they really enjoyed in it. After class ended, I gave them some exercises that have to be done at home.

What I’ve learnt through this journey was, being a teacher is very challenging and there are many responsibilities to be done. And it is really hard to teach some students who don’t even know anything about Mathematics. As a teacher, we should guide them step by step so that they will be trained well in Mathematics and they will have more interest to answer Mathematics questions. That’s all for this 8^th Reflection.

Thank You.

Reflection 7

Hello everyone, sorry for late posting my reflection. It’s because I’m busy completing my assignments and presentations.

For reflection 7 the topic given was, “If I am a classroom teacher, how many rules will I enforce? List and explain the purpose of the enforced rule. Well, I think having rules in class is an important issue because, rules can manage and control the environment of the class.

I have enforced few rules which I think it will be needed to handle my class’s environment and also will be easy for me to apply those rules to my students. This is because, some students don’t like to follow the rules and they will feel discomfort to obey those rules. So, I must enforced rules that would be relevant and also make comfort to my students to obey and follow it.

1.      Be prepared before you enter the class

-       Before entering my class, I want my students to have a short warm up about the topic that they going to learn on that day. This to ensure that they will have some knowledge and also ideas about what will be thought by the teacher and they also will be prepared to give some answers if the teachers ask regarding that new topic

2.      No other subject books or notes on the table

-       I strictly don’t like when my students is doing other homework or assessment during my lecture. So, I will ask my students to keep away all their other subject works and clear the table. I will only encourage them to have Mathematic book and things that are related to Mathematics.

3.       Raise up your hands

-        This rule is particularly will be use when students are willing to ask my questions or doubts regarding the topic. 

4.      Sit beside other religion student

-       To ensure dignity for our country, we have to be in 1Malaysia formed class. So, I’ll ask my students to sit in between other religion students during my lessons. This will create a new bondage and good relationship between each other.

5.      Speak out

-       I’ll encourage my students to speak or voice out their points or method during lecture. I prefer if my students able to give me new ideas on how to solve Mathematic problems. Hence, we are having a good relationship between teacher and students by sharing ideas.

I hope that these rules are relevant and important for my students to obey, follow and practice during my lecture. These rules will ensure a good and healthy class environment and will also change the attitude of my students.

Thank you. Have a nice day ahead.

Reflection 6

Hello everyone, sorry for late posting my reflection. It’s because I’m busy completing my assignments and presentations.

So, for Reflection 6, Madam Ng asked us to reflect about ‘What have I discovered?’ for that whole week classes. We was discovering about an article entitled, “Navigating the Bumpy Road to Student- Centered Instruction”. Madam told us that we need to find 5 points on why students dislike Student-centered Approach and 5 points on why teachers think it is an effective approach. It was freaking hard to read and understand, yet I still manage to get some points and ideas what it is all about.

That article reflects about the advantages and disadvantages of Student-centered Approach. I think this would be a contemporary approach that most teachers believe that’s an effective and the best teaching approaches. Below showed the points that I discovered and more specific about the questions Madam asked.

In my opinion, the reasons why some students think students-centered instruction will not work for them are:

Firstly, the students think student-centered instruction will be difficult to them because, if they involving too much on active learning exercises, they will never get into concentration   about the syllabus. For example, having too much of group discussion during lecture period might wasting time because without knowing the syllabus, the students won’t be able to discuss about any topic.

Secondly, the students will not able to control themselves if there is no lecturing in class. For example, when the students were arguing with teacher regarding their opinion, they feel hard to get back to the topic and might lose concentration.

Thirdly, during presentation or doing group assignments, the students will not able to get fully information about the syllabus and might not fully participate in the group. For example, during group assignment or presentation, the students won’t have a balance part to present and they only will perform based on their part only. So the rest part that they didn’t involve will not be learned.

Fourthly, students find difficulties to do their homework after they went back home. For example, if the teacher didn’t lecture and more focusing in active learning, the student won’t be able to get the knowledge and find difficulties to complete their homework.

Finally, students find themselves lack of confidence to involve themselves into student- centered learning during an active learning exercises. For example, without knowing the correct information about the syllabus, the student won’t brave out themselves to argue or share information during discussion.

Now the reasons why teacher implement student-centered instruction are:

1.  It provide students opportunities to learn independently from one another and guide them with their skills in classroom for effectively.

2. Able to cover all the syllabus and important topic that never been cover before.

3. Students are given handouts to understand it and so that they can answer the exercises that were given by the teachers.

4. Uses short quizzes at the beginning of every period to see whether the students have read the material that were given to students to read.

5. The exercises are more to critical thinking and brainstorming, and it help students to understand and solve problem more effective and problem solving.

Then Madam also asked us to reflect a few sentence about the activities that we want to apply for our mock teaching. I choose Creating Challenges which will be more suitable for Mathematics. My activities are, group quizzes, Kahoot game and individual challenges. This will ensure that by Creating Challenges, students will be more alert and concentrate as well as will have interest and excitement to learn Mathematics.

 

Thank you. Have a nice day ahead.