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Monday, 20 March 2017

Hey there peeps ! You know what ? I was really stress up lately, you know students life too many things to think plus my lappy didn’t cooperate well and running super duper slow urghh ! It keeps lagging aIl the time ! think I need a new one hehe I’ll tell my dad later :P I was supposed to finish this third reflection on last week but yeah you know, I told ya already

i believe that all of you have experienced your school life time right, i just found this picture in google which is quite interesting, so what kind of teacher you want to be in future? if me, i prefer to be the last one 😝 nahh kidding !

                On 7th March is our class, but unfortunately our lecturer didn’t managed to lecture us on that day, she postponed it on the next day due to unavoidable reason I guess. We had discussed about “NAVIGATING THE BUMPY ROAD TO STUDENT CENTERED INSTRUCTION” in class. It’s about conventional student’s experiences of adapting  learning by their own in student centered educations and the obstacles in teaching conventional students.

And this time, we’re assigned to:
 “ Suggest 2 methods to solve 4 selected issues from 11 listed highlighted in the article”.

1) If I spend time in class on active learning, I’ll never get through the syllabus.

It is not really necessary to spend lots of time by teaching in class, by giving questions for them to answer either individually or in a small group is better than taking more times to transcribe the course one by one in class. Plus, it helps educators to finish the syllabus faster and also can enhance their thinking skills to solve the questions that given.

Next, spend class time only by explaining the most difficult part of the notes and leaving the students to cover the rest for themselves. Because nowadays, during teaching and learning process it is not the same as the conventional time where students just been given and absorb information from the educator, active learning are more to encouraging students to be proactive.

2) If I don’t lecture, I’ll lose control.

Some students are good in accepting SCI learning method but some students are having difficulty by getting past the negativity and keep on complaining what are the main purpose for them to learn that certain topics. An educator have to take some times to explain them the reason why they have to learn that topics and relate the real situation in real life that they might have to face in future.

Instead of teaching, an educator must know how to entertain students. The point is to attract their attention so that they won’t be too stress up and keep on complaining. The learning session supposed to be interesting.

3) If assign homework, presentation or projects to groups, some students will “hitchhike” getting credit for work in which they did not actively participate.

This keeps happen whenever they were given group assignment. Some students are just getting free ride and did not participate in the group  task. To overcome this situation, educators have to monitor their work done, one by one and make sure that everyone will participate. Meanwhile there will be no chance for them to escape.

Next, lectures role play. Educators should decide which topic to be given to each students eventhough it is a group assignment. It is to ensure that they were doing their work individually and also can encourage them working together by having discussion to each other.

4) When I tried active learning in one of my classes, many of the students hated it. Some refused to cooperate and made their hostility to the approach and to me very clear.

Try to persude the students by playing games and relate it with the topic that they were learning. it will encourage their participation and also avoid their bordness.

Giving some break time for them in teaching. Based on my experience as a students I do understand that sometimes we might feel very tired, so give them some space. So that they won’t be too pressure. 

okay thank you muah 😘

FACT ! 😆

Monday, 6 March 2017

2nd Reflection

Well hello there ! welcome back J so as you can see from the top topic,  imma gonna share about my second reflections about Pedagogy in education. Hope you don’t get bored of me hihi

At the end of this February is our Pedagogy  class. So on that day, Dr. Ng told us to read the TOTTO CHAN story as an additional knowledge to us. Plus I believe that in order to improvise my English  (since im planning to majoring in Language and Literature) I have to read a lots so that I can learn new words.

    After that she taught us that to be an excellent educator, a teacher has to know how to approach to their students, it’s because every students came from different background. We cannot teach them the way we learn, we have to try to teach them the way they can learn. Eventhough you have lots of students you have get to know each of them. But not to close with them because there are ethical rule to be followed in school stated that a teacher are not allowed to have a relationship with students. This could be an advantages for me when doing my teaching practicum later right ?



Next, she also taught us that there are many ways to get approach with students such as:
  • You have to acknowledge about how students learn, never point out students behaviors if they did not paying attention but ask them questions instead to know whether they are focus or not. And while asking questions, ask randomly.
  •  Do not ask the same person over and over again, it should be diversity when you’re calling.
  • By giving rewards for their achievements instead of punishment when they failed to answer the questions.
  • Attract students attention by relating the subjects that they learn with what they are interested to, such as relating the actresess of Korean drama as a character in teaching. (quite interesting right?)
  • How to deal with students bad behavior? Simple, just drag them to the deciplinary teachers. Easy.


She shared many useful tips with us in teaching, thankyou Dr.Ng J

But then, after teaching us a lessons she gave us a task to find 10 things that students do not want the educators to do.

BEFORE THAT ! have you watch this movie ? “Bad Teacher” if you haven’t yet then you MUST ! Trust me it’ll makes you laugh all the time, but still contains moral value 😉




This is based on my previous experience in school hahaha  (evil laugh) 😈

1) Being annoyed. 
- Teachers that didn't gave a chance for students to give their opinions.

2) Teachers are not allowed to used harsh words towards students.
- As a teacher, they need to be professional in solving students deciplinary problems instead of using harshwords towards them, that will make students demoralized.

3) Too stern.
- A teacher should not be too stern towards students, he/she supposed to be tolerate and understanding to them. It is because, some of the students might be afraid to give out their opinion they are not willing to study and also they will lose their intrest in study.

4) Do not give too many exercisess/homework.
- Students might be stress up, and there are big possibilities they will not going to finish their task. They prefer to be given a task in class, so that the teacher can guide them and discuss the answers together. Plus they can spend their ample time with family and get enough rest.

5) Favoritism.
- Teachers should avoid favoritism in class, like keep on calling the same persons to answer the questions. This will make the some of the students take it for granted. They didn't want to think to solve the questions because won't be asked. So they just depending on other students.

6) Lessons from text book alone.
- Just teaching the students what is dictated in the text causes boredom. Also they will miss many things like experimenting what they learned, projects and assignments. It should be entertaining to attract students attention.

7) Yelling.
- Most of the students hate being scolded infront the others, this will cause them to slowly dislike the teacher and may result in distrust too.Students will more listen to you, when you speak in a normal voice.

8) Sit Down during entire class.
- Sitting down through an entire class is just not appropriate. This will lead to boredom to students, and believe me, some of the students will fall asleep during class at the back side.

9) Correcting students frequently.
- It is okay to correct your students on the spot while they were talking, but not too frequently. Because this will lead to embarassment to them. It's better to write down mistakes during the exercise and then give them corrections after they finish speaking.

10) Don't read while teaching.
- This keep happens in history subject, most of teachers prefer to read instead of explaining it effectively such as using the white board and write short notes instead of reading all of those paragraph. The students might lose their interest and will get bored.




I guess, that's it. see ya on the next reflection ! Leave your comments and thoughts, i will reply it as soon as i can 😊

Saturday, 4 March 2017

My first class Reflection !

Tuesday, 21 February 2017.

Hye there! Yeah me again 👀 just wanted to share my 1st reflection of Pedagogy in Education to you all. 

Today I didn’t managed to attend class due to having stomachache (diarrhea) 😞 I bet you know how it feels right 😆 Eventhough I missed the class, my friend “Malar” still told me what happened in class. On that day, our lecturer asked about the forums tasks that had been given to us and then she discussed the answers together in class. She also asked each person one by one  based on what they understand about What is Pedagogy means & School of Thought Theory as we are assigned to read that theory. She wanted all of them to participate and be supportive in class. And to be honest, I know how does it feel to be asked even when you know the answer but you’ll get nervous till you cannot explain it clearly right?😂 It keeps happen a lot to me! And even sometimes you might be feel like ghoosebumps till your hands turns cold as ice! Okay that’s too much back to the topic 😜 After that Dr. Ng taught them about the Pedagogy definition and also the theory of School Of Thought.


  yepp ! Its me (the yellow one), Malar (in the middle) and Fizy (the sarawakian!) Big thanks to Malar for telling me all of this informations muahh 💋 




So lets talk about the topic. What is Pedagogy? Pedagogy is actually a method and practice of teaching and learning. Which means that there are lots of teaching and learning styles can be used as a guidance for me when I become a teacher one day amin.. Next is The School of Thought, there are 3 main points in this theory, Cognitive School of Thought,  Humanistic School of Thought and Behavioral School of thought.



These are the charactheristics each of School of Thought:

v  Cognitive School of Thought.
-  👉Study about what goes inside our head when we are learning.
-  👉 Information processing : The study of how we mentally take in and store information and then retrieve it when needed

-  👉 Beliefs about attention :
  >  Learning experiences should be as pleasant and satisfying as possible
b> Beliefs about short-term and long term memory
  > Beliefs about the memory process.

-  👉  Meaningful learning: 
   >  Reception learning (eg:present information clearly/involve learners during presentation)
  > Reciprocal teaching (A form of teaching wherein the teacher gradually shifts teaching responsibility to learners)
   > Problem solving.


v  Humanistic School of Thought.
👉Having good feelings about oneself and others is essential to positive personal development.
-  👉 Humanistic Approaches to Teaching:
     > Inviting School Success
     > Values Clarification
     >  Moral Education
     >  Multiethnic Education

v  Behavioral School of Thought.
-      👉 Study about surrounding affected the learners behavior.
-      👉  Contiguity
-      👉Classical Conditioning
-      👉 Operant Conditioning
-      👉Social Learning

Unfortunately, it was such a waste to missed a class. Even I still get some of the informations but it still has the limitation. So that’s all for now,  stay tuned for the next upcoming blog 😊. Lots of  💗

Always believe in yourself ✌