8th Reflections

LAST REFLECTION ! WHO'S THE BEST AMONG THE BEST ? Hmmmm ~

Yes, you're reading my final reflections for this course, i bet you're gonna miss me when im gone 😝 Im glad that i managed to finished this assignments, and i'm very proud of myself that i had improve my teaching skills .

So, this is our last task : From the mock teaching session you have seen, choose one which you think is the best. Reflect on the following aspects: teacher role in managing the students, managing the lesson, the teaching method, the lesson-content and the two more aspects to reflect. (to be written after you have seen all)

   Hmmm.. so the winner ... goes to ...... Jen !

Unfortunately i wasn't in the picture 😢

• The reason why i choose her because i found that she's being very nice in teaching her students, she gives clear explanation to all of us. One thing that i like about her is she turns the lesson to be enjoyable and fun by playing games at the first minute ! Tbh, on that time i started to felt sleepy and losing focus, but she manage to wokes me up :)

• She was able to manage the lesson well. Eventhough we're making too much noice she arbitrates in a good way. There's one of my friend came late to class, but what i see is she's still welcoming her politely, it's just that she advised her not to be late again in a proper way.

• Her teaching method is quite impressive too, she gives us some activities to answer her questions. As i remember she's using the scan QR code for us to recognize the shape behind the object either it is polygon or not. It's like something new for me, nobody had done it before as i know. cool right?

• The lesson content is sufficient. It is not too much, and she provides a clear explanation about how to recognize polygons to us. She's using mnemonics to make it easier to memorize such as Octagon has 8 sides = Octopus (has 8 legs) See how creative she is ?! She also gives us a real object to describe the polygons shape.

• Moreover, i think her PowerPoint is exciting and also effective ! It was simple, less sentence, she put many shapes so it won't be looked bored, good contrast and many else. She also talk freely when explaining her lesson without reading from the slides. 

• And lastly, i think you're the best because you are so creative in approaching your students. She also include emoji for us to rate how satisfied we are towards her  lesson and how deep our understanding is. It shows that she is very concern about our understanding. 

That's all, so long my friend 😉

7th Reflections

My Mock Teaching ✌

Finally ! last but not least, i've done my mock teaching as the 3rd presenter hahha ! Thank goodness everything went well even that was my very first experience ! Okay, continue your reading 😉

Hello class ! today i'll be your new English teacher, you may call me Madam Anis wakaka

After our Mock Teaching, we are assigned to reflect our own mock teaching:

1)How the lesson went in general.

2)What i  would do differently.

3)What went wrong.

4)What i liked about the lesson.

5)If the activities and class dynamic reflected my teaching principles.

6)What i learned in the process.

1) How the lesson went in general.

For me, i am very glad that i've made it. I've tried my very best on that day facing my biggest fear which is lack self-confident :p Luckily my classmates or should i say my "students" are very supporting, even they look childish pretending as a form 1 students but still participate well during the lesson. To be honest, they look so cute ! When the time i played a video of Prepositions song, they were all singing. At the end of the class, we played a game which is "Time Rush" The situation turns wild hahaha they were all trying their best to convince the guesser about what is the object behind (on the screen) 

wish i could have this kind of students later 😂

2) What i would do differently.

If i could turn back time, i would fix my mistake in showing them the video. on that day, our lecturer gives some comments to each of us, she told me that when it comes to showing a video, RELATE IT. I do realise my mistake that i just showed them the video and move to the next topics. I supposed to connect it with the topic, like one of my friend did very well. She played a song of her lesson then she create a dance for it. Interesting right? I should be more creative in teaching. 

3) What went wrong.

- There are few problems on that day, the first one is i didn't alert with my time as i planned in my lesson plan during the lesson. But yeah, i'll take note that, thankyou Dr.Ng 😊

- Second is i putting too much information to teach in a single period, which is overload! i wasn't supposed to do that. I cannot put lots of topic in a short time, students won't be able to catch it that fast right? I'll make sure, i won't repeat the same mistakes when it comes to my teaching practicum later.

- And lastly about the video as i said earlier.

4) What i like about the lesson.

I found that what i liked the most about the lesson is the game part! Everyone were participating in the game. It's very funny to see them acting to visualize the objects rushingly because they were only given 3 minutes only! Take a look for this video 👇

5) If the activities and class dynamic reflected my teaching principles.

I would say yes, because my teaching principles is simple, a good teacher will provide a good learning. I believe that kind of activites will be work in teaching in class. I also belive that, once you get to liked your teacher, you will be willingly to learn what had been taught by them. 

6) What i learned in the process?

I learned a lot! I also learned how to confront with my nervous. This is something rare for me, and a great experience. I will try to improve myself from time to time. I also learned that to be an excellent educator, i have to be dare accepting challenges! Being a teacher was not an easy job, it takes many sacrifices to succeed, like the quote says "no pain no gain". At first i was having difficulties in creating lesson plan, but then as i learned and keep on doing it, i finally understand how to do it well. 

I also learned how to educate other people. Since this was  my first time, i learned that in order to educate students you have to speak with loud voice, be confident, fine alternatives to approach the students, and the most important thing is, i learned that a learning session have to be interesting and joyful ! It will encourage the students to learn with enthusiasm.

Thats all. Bye bye 👋

6th Reflections

My preparation for my mock teaching ?

Few days left before our mock teaching day ! Oohh God ! To be honest, this is my baddest nightmare since the first day I knew it was one of our assignments.  Well .. actually imma sort of lack self confident person when it comes to talk infront of many peoples, but yeahh I have to take this opportunity as my challenge and preparation as a teacher to be hihi ^^

I always believe in this quote “Face your fear, you are braver than you think” yeah it was since I was in secondary school.. I don’t remember whose quoted it, I just saw it in the internet long time ago.

Back to the TOPIC: what is your preparation for your mock teaching?

•  I already decided my topic for my upcoming mock teaching which is about “Preposition”
• Yepp, my lesson plan already done, slides? Hehe still working on it (see how procrastinating I am :P)
• Already look up elements that need to be include into my slides
• I’ve list down abt how to prepare a good slides in my notepad (based on what our lecturer taught us)
• Actually yesterday I tried to do my pre-mock teaching (practicing) with my roommates haha poor them cause they have to listened to me for about half an hour 😝it was like over & over again ~
• And last but not least, pray to god. Wish everything will be just fine later amin ..

Well.. that’s it ! very short for this time right?

Btw, have you seen this video ? Faded cover song by Sara Farell 👇 trust me, her voice from heaven 👌

5th Reflections

This time our task is about “Choose one set of PowerPoint from ‘internet’, then ‘fix it!” but “if you think the PowerPoint do not needed to be fixed, explain why with 4 reasons”

So.. I’ve been looked up for sets of bad PowerPoint from the internet, it’s quite a lots actually but I found that this one is the worst ever I guess haha

-          Okay , as you can see from the title above, they put “My presentation” as the title. It’s obviously wrong ! it should be the actual title of the topic, for example “Woodland Park Zoo Seatle WA” . 

   

      To be honest, I can’t even understand what are the main topic the presenter was trying to tell. Therefore this kind of slides has to be avoided. The use of the background color is not interesting and actually more like boring for students.

-          The second slides it should be simple. Too much words in there, the slides must have plenty of "white space" or "negative space". Use keywords only, no sentences. Therefore, the presenter should never read the whole sentences from the slides when presenting. It all should be spontaneously.

      The slides are only for supports, not to replace the  talk because if you read your slides and if you do it slow and badly, the audience will get bored and stop listening.

     

-          I guess the third slides the presenter is about to visualize the Zoo. Therefore, besides of putting lots of inappropriate cartoon images to describe the zoo, it should be replaced with the Zoos environment images. And also, it should be arrange properly so that it won’t be too crowded.

-        The fourth slides, the presenter was trying to list down some of the good ideas for upgrading the Zoo. The main point should be very clear such as “Ideas for Upgrading the Zoo”. The use of consistency is also important, the fonts should be in the same sizes on all slides, and can be read easily.       

      

      From the word “Ideas” it should be more than one ideas, but from the slide as we can see they only put one only.

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-          Next, the use of images as the background is not suitable. The images distracting the messages, plus the fonts of the messages is too small and in white color. It should be contrast, If you want to play with colors, keep it easy on the eyes and always keep good contrast in mind so that your readers do not have to strain to guess what you’ve typed on your slide

-          The information of the charts above is not clear. It should be labeled clearly. Plus, you can also put some animation to make it more interesting.

-          Lastly, to conclude a presentation it has to be some of the conclusion. Not just by putting some random pictures and say thank you. 

    Okay that's it ! see ya on the next reflections 👋

4^th Reflection.

Hey waddup ?

its my 4^th reflection already ! And you know what ? there are fews days left for our mock teaching ! I am so dead!! really need to prepare myself since Im the third presenter (bcoz my name starts from A 😢 why mom whyyyyy!)

And again I was absent to class. But this time it is because im  taking care of my niece which is only 6y/o. Actually her mom was warded in the hospital due to affected by dengue, and her father was in outstation on that time so I have to replace their responsibility of taking care of my niece. But luckily she’s recovering now and her husband came back already, thank goodness 😊

My friends told me that they were learning about :

Yeah.. you know lesson plan is very important to be a teacher. It is a teacher's detailed description of the course or "learning trajectory". It is developed by teachers to guide class learning. We need to have goals about what are the students supposed to learn. We need to have plans before educating people, you can’t just came to class and teach bla3x without planning. Then it won’t be an effective learning session. To conclude,  lesson plan is the teacher's guide to run a particular lesson.

So, for our 4^th reflection task we are assigned to "design my own structure of lesson plan"

So as you can see this is one of the lesson plan template. To make it clear, imma gonna explain it to you okay?

Form/class, subject, topic, date and time are required to be filled.

Level of proficiency: To measure the difficulty level of the lesson should be.There are 5 categories, such as Beginning level, Early intermediate, Intermediate, Early Advanced, Advanced.

for example the begining level, teachers can teach the basic topics such as nouns, "nouns is a word which names a person, things, place or animals. Person = a girl, baby, Robinson Crusoe"

Background Knowledge: Refers to what the students have been taught in previously.

Learning Objective: The goals of the teacher about what the students are going to be taught. i think 1 or 2 are good enough.

Learning Outcomes: The students achievements. Learning outcomes are the statements that specify what learners will know as the results. It Should be more than the learning objectives. 

Values: It the moral values that can came out from the lesson.

Teaching Aids: Are the tools/apparatus used by the teacher that can help the learners improve their learning academic. For example flash cards, blackboard, LCD Projector.

Teaching and learning approaches: Teachers should list down new teaching and learning approaches to make the lesson be more interesting, instead of the conventional times where students just listen and absorbs all the information from the teacher. it supposed to be more fun.

example: Mentor mentee

KBKK: Stands for "Kemahiran Berfikir Secara Kritif dan Kreatif" and also known as Critical and Creative Thinking Skills to instill in learners nowadays.

So as you can see there's explaination about certain part from the picture above (information, verification, activity)

Summary: To conclude what had happen during learning session. Teachers can include additional notes to improve their teaching skills and fix their weaknesses.

Well yeah ! that's all, really need deep sleep right now (5 more minutes before 3am) 😂

its kinda funny but true right? Sometimes we need a life too even as a student 😂 but manage your time wisely okay baby 😏