~ The end of the Battleship with thousands of experienced

Hello everyone, it's already week 9 and we are almost going to the end of teaching practice. So what I can share here is students started their final examinations. Teachers only need to go for invigilation. As for me I need to take the exam paper from a special room which they put all the exam papers inside it. As well as to sign the form to make sure there is no mistake made. I also helped my mentors to mark the students exam papers and key in the marks for the PBS system for form 1.

This week is the last week for my Form 2 and Form 4 students. They thanked me for being there with their lovely hugs. I am happy to know them and glad that they really enjoyed being with me. I hope that they will achieve something in their life so that I can proudly say that they were mt students.

At the same time, I felt sad because time flies and we all have to leave the schools and our beloved students. But teaching practice will be one of the most memorable time ever. I hope you all enjoyed your teaching practice even some of us including me faced a lot of problems with the students.

~ Loveable Kids Ever... ~

I am really sorry because I was not able to post about my teaching practical from week 6... So now I'm sharing my stories to all of my course mates...

Students creating their slogans.

This group almost done with their poster on the topic.

Still writing and drawing.

I am proud to say that my kids are really awesome and wonderful especially my form2 students. After week 6 they really obey all mu rules and did all their homework. Even, they are really enthusiastic in participating in group work. As what I can say here, they did a good job in delivering all their ideas as well as sharing their points regarding the subject. Before this I had mentioned that I used a technique to make them listen to me. Which is 5 languages that I knew. And it really works! My students cooperated with me very well which I felt so glad to teach them. I would like to share a few pictures here when I did a group work regarding the topic "Open Burning". I asked them to be in group of 6 and design a poster on how to create awareness among the public to stop open burning using 5 to 6 sentences. I also discussed with them about the slogan that they designed and give marks according to their creativity and how they present it. Here are a few examples.

Students raising their hands to answer my question.

These are the examples of slogans designed by the students.

I'm giving explanation and corrects the mistake they made.

Unfortunately, I was not able to capture pictures for my Form4 class. But what I can say here is that, they really cooperated with me even some of the students are really stubborn and like to talk in class while I'm teaching. When, Dr. Adele came to observe me for the first time, i was nervous but I can say that i am confident to handle the class even I had made a few mistakes. But the worst part is for my second observation, I really felt disappointed because I did not delivered a good teaching aids and also my instruction was not so clear. But I really tried my best and my mentor really encouraged and supported me a lot. I had the chance to know my students because I had two different classes. So I tend to learn more about the backgrounds of my students and based on that I will be bale to handle the classes in future.

I did not get good comments for my form 4 class which makes me feel so stressed. But I am lucky because my another mentor for my form 2 class praised me a lot. This is because before their exam started, i did a debate. I am shocked because my first impression is that, my form2 kids will not be able to deliver their points. But I was wrong. They did a very good job. They were so excited to participate in the debate.. My mentor was there to observe me. After the debate, my mentor called me and said that, " You did a very good job". You should do it again next time." The words that she said makes me feel appreciated for the effort that I have been putting all this while. I recorded the debate activity, but unfortunately I accidentally deleted it which I only realized few days back.

I hope I can go through this teaching practice until week 10 with the blessing of the lovely people around me..

"Puzzle pieces" in teaching

Hello everyone,

Before I didn't know that there were a lot of paper work for teachers until I have been involved in this environment I got to know that as a teacher, they need to plan everything in advance. Preparing uncountable forms, documents and teaching materials make teachers can not take a pause.

 

During Form 4 exams, except doing invigilation . I also assisted to mark the exam paper except  summary writing part for both of my classes 4S1 and 4S4. Marking exam paper reminds me about the courses" Language testing and assessment" and "Assessment in literature education" I have taken in last two semesters. It took time to combine the knowledge masterly with the practical process. Sometimes the differences between the knowledge and practical process made me feel quite confused. When I was not sure about students' answers whether is right or wrong, I would just ask the teachers for opinions. " As an examiner, you should be fair with every student's answer. Never paraphrase their answers even you really want to give marks to them. Helping them to improve but not helping them to be just satisfied with their marks" the teacher's suggestion made me understand one more important responsibility of a teacher.

 

One episode happened during exam week. As my mentor has already did revision for 4S1 students earlier , so I just chose to do the revision for students about sentence connectors as they would use in writing part. On the day of English exam, it was my period of invigilation. When I just went to the class started to divide the exam paper, some boys came to me and ask me " Miss Amanda, what is the format of report?" I was shocked " Seriously? You suppose to know it! Didn't you learn it before? " " We learnt before, but our teacher didn't teach that much about that." Then I feel a little bit guilty, I should have done the revision about writing format for them. After the exam, I went to meet the mentor with my doubt. " Why they told me they didn't know the format of report? Some of them really looked worried about that." " Don't be bothered, they were just trying to get extra information to gain more marks from you. I have told them thousands of time unless they were sleeping when I teach them."  Oh, well, I was still too simple to deal with those "smart" heads. lol  Later on when I started to mark exam paper, thankfully most of the students managed to write the correct format in writing part.

During SPM and PMR exam, I was assigned to assist English department to prepare the teaching module and materials for Form 4 and Form 5 in 2013. I need to work on the grammar part. Categorizing  the grammatical items from every unit first then select the teaching materials from books and internet based on each item. After few days  I finally managed to collect over 300 materials into more than 30 item folders. How I wonder I could teach that time! Sometimes I also helped teachers to do the teaching aids and type students name lists. Uncountable paper work killed time.

Since exam has ended, there was nothing to restrict the students. Some of them even have no interest to come to school, so everyday there was 30%-40% absence in class. I had to came up more interesting activities to attract  their attention. By the way, it reminds me of using different teaching aids in class. From my point of view, pictures and drawing activity already can not satisfied Form 4 students. It forces me to look further to choose more different teaching aids in class. Starting from the first day, everyday before class starts, I will show one English quotes on color paper to students. It  related to different aspects of life. "Tip of the day" brings positive energy to students, it also catches their attention before class starts. As I managed to get the permission from chief teacher  at the beginning before I teach, I just need to go to science lab to borrow projector whenever I want to use in class. Videos never fails to catch their eyes as they rarely watch videos in their previous classes. Short video clips, music videos, commercial, animation, speech, news report, talk show,documentary and whatever I can use to match with the topics of different lessons. Sometimes I also bring posters, magazines like "reader digest" "Time" " Discovery " and " National Geography " magazine into writing and speaking class. The picture and commercial pages could used in presentation. The articles in magazine could be the samples to guide them in writing. Color paper, box , envelope and candies which I think a little bit childish also works on class. As long as students could be interested and focused in English learning, all kinds of teaching aids which are interesting, useful and relevant can be recommend to use.

Teaching is an exploring process, to find out what are students' needs, which way is more easier and interesting for teacher to deliver the knowledge to students. 



 

Details determine success or failure

Greeting to all!

I apologize for my super late post. It seems I got " jet lag"...

Form 4 students had started their final exam since week 4 and which has last for almost 4 weeks. So I would like to share more details in first 3 weeks teaching in Katholic High school first.  

As  my teaching time were 'ruthlessly' shorten by Form 4 final exam, PMR and SPM. I got very little time to teach. I must  teach them more knowledge in a limited time. Everyday I was thinking how to deliver knowledge to students in an interesting and effective way. Due to they had already done with all lessons on syllabus, I was told by my mentor that I 'm free to teach with any relevant and useful lesson plans.  My mentor's permission made my teaching plan became more flexible. 

In last reflection I mentioned that I used learning style test which I got from a workshop named blended learning to test my students what are their learning style. What surprised me that most of them are kinesthetic which means they are interested in activity and prefer to do it personally to understand what they have learnt. And I finally understand why most of them seemed not that active when they need to come in front of the class to conduct an activity individually. They are just too shy to do it alone in front of the people. As they are just not used to this kind of learning style. So sometimes I made group work instead of individual work. 3-4 students in a group to do an presentation, they could easily express their opinion one by one and do the brainstorm to inspire themselves. In personality adjectives activity, I asked several groups which include two students for each to come in front and write down their classification of positive personality and negative personality. Other than that, scrabble game according to description in pre-reading made students enjoyed to came up the right answer with group discussion. I could feel that they  prefer to fight in front of the class for different ideas rather than do the activity alone. They became more and more confident when they complete the task in front of the class. 

In first few weeks, 4S4 class needs to conduct an oral test which will count in their final marks. I got the chance to observe their presentation, but I noticed that some of them are not well-prepared and their expression about the points were not that clear. Later on I aimed to provided more speaking activity for them. Even though some of their expressions are not that logical, their English proficiency are quite high, so it is not hard to make them talk. Except the speech according to different character and presentation on different topic ( which I mentioned in last reflection) students have tired, I also ask students to do the debate in class. Before I guide them to the topic, I would always share my own stories and experiences or relevant information to catch their attention, then I asked them to share their own opinion. ( E.g. I would share my travelling story and what I have seen in Korea in my last holiday before I give them the topic ' Should plastic surgery encouraged or not?' ) I divided the class into two big groups. Each round during debate need one students to come in front to present. Students were enjoying the debate on interesting topic, as long as their points are conceivable, I would always give praise and encouragement. Most of the students are Chinese, so sometimes when they are too excited to express their opinion, mandarin will blurt out of their mouth. During the activity, most of my comment is " Excuse me, English! " lol  

There was another detail I found that every Wednesday is the day of club activity. Most of the students will join some different clubs like Kungfu, sports and scout etc. So every Wednesday they are extremely exhausted. My classes were in the last few periods, then every Wednesday I have to face their tired look and lower cooperation. I have been used different things to cheer them up. Playing video clip to catch their attention, using group or individual activity to keep them away from motionless in case of falling asleep. Students' reactions on class  are easily affect teachers' emotion and spirit. In fact that cheer them up is to cheer up myself.  Sometimes in class 4S1, the boys are too energetic and noisy, then I will provide some interesting reading comprehension like stories, social issues to make them be quite for a while. Most of the time, they could really focus on reading. 

Final exam was coming at that time, so all of them were under pressure, even they have finish all the lessons, they still have a lot of homework and exercise to do. I found sometimes some students doing other subjects on my class. At the beginning I just approach them and remind them silently because I don't want to make them embarrassing and I thought it works. But they think I 'm not strict and serious by using 'soft warning'. When I found this problem became worse I was angry, one day before class finished, I gave a warning in front of the class." If anyone doing other things on English class again,  you only can get your stuff after the exam. I am serious, so don't test me." This time, it works.  In writing class, I usually ask them to finish writing task on class and pass them up after the class. Some students seemed not that serious and they feel lazy to do it. So I told them, if anyone doesn't pass up the writing piece, his/her pebel mark will deducted.Then everyone passed up on time. I understood that sometimes  'threatening' is very necessary. 

I have been always told that I need to raise my voice as my voice was so soft and low. Especially my supervisor emphasized this problem when she gave me the feedback. I tired my best to raise my voice in the class later on. I even consider to practice shouting to make my voice louder. Sometimes I was moving around or stand in the middle of the classroom to make sure everyone can hear my voice. After observation, I was told that my lesson plan was quite systematic, but I still need to work on the class management like voice intonation, call the name directly instead of approach them and call unintentionally, ask students be ready for the class by giving clear and strict requirement. Details, details, it is all about details which we can not neglect in teaching. I listed down  all the main points that I need to work on. When I prepared the lesson plan, I would also have a look at the tips, so I was able to remind myself do not do the same mistakes again. All I need to do is learn from mistake, improve from experience. 

Many a little makes a mickle,  many details make big changes. 

PS. Start from Week 4, my major work is doing invigilation. To be honest, as a students for more than 15 years, you must do invigilation for even once in lifetime. I really enjoyed doing invigilation, feel so good. I do not feel bored at all.  lol 

Check out Bunmi's Experience

Thanks Bunmi aka Bumstar for sharing your photo collection from school through THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO RECORDING. You look good in a traditional Malay costume! :-)

Between Two Lungs (3rd Reflection)

[Once again, sorry for the late post!]

A quick recap about my 2nd reflection: 

I was asked to teach 4 Batai, a very rumbustious class with problematic attitude. Although they are high in English proficiency, but they're lack in both speaking and presentation skills. So, how did I handle the kids?

I can say that I was quite stern with these kids. I thought that if I was nice to them, they would not take me seriously. I set a few ground rules where the students needed to follow strictly. In my opinion, the rules are important as they will give your students a hint on your teaching style and how they should behave when the teaching & learning (T&L) is conducted. A few students revealed to me that when I came into the class with these ground rules, instantly they knew that "I'm the type of teacher who you don't want to mess with".

My dad gave me a tip, told me to use reverse psychology to deal with this kind of kids. There was once when I entered the classroom where the students did not greet me & were still playing around in the classroom, completely ignoring my presence. Instead of scolding them, I lectured them about "good manners & courtesies" for good. After that day, whenever the students met me inside or outside the classroom, they would always greet me. They started to show more respect and behave better in the class.

My sternness towards the students gradually changed as I saw that they had started to improve a lot in their behaviour and attitude to learn. Since 4 Batai consists of a bunch of talkative students, I had decided to do more speaking activities with them. Most of them admitted that they were very shy to speak in front of the class. I recalled the first time that I observed the class was when Pn. Emily did an oral presentation with them and to my horror, they were very weak in presentation skill. Most of them didn't greet the audience, did not even introduce themselves or their topic and worst, some of them didn't end their speech with a "thank you"! Afterwards, whenever they were asked to do presentation, I would encourage all of the group members to speak & assist them by giving them feedbacks or comments. I would also give them a few suggestion on how to improve or make their presentation be more interesting/lively at the end of the lesson. From zero to hero - I must say that I am very proud of 4 Batai as they showed a very impressive improvement in both speaking & presentation skills (and they did it in quite a short time, how amazing is that!). In Week 4, they were bolder and became more eloquent to speak in public. 

Practice makes perfect!

When I revealed to the students that I would do revision on literature with them, they frankly confessed that learning literature is boring. To overcome this problem, I designed fun yet challenging tasks for my students. My goal was that the students would learn from the literature and love it as much as I do. I used game (i.e. puzzle), role-play and mind-mapping as well as asked the students to create/interpret the poem that they had learned into something else (i.e. poster, story-telling, song, etc.). One of my favourite activities that I did with the class was when I did revision on "The Fruitcake Special". I asked them to put themselves in a chemist's shoe and create a suitable perfume for the characters in the short story based on their characteristics. The end products were marvellous! The students were very creative and they really enjoyed inventing the perfumes. A few groups took the initiative to pretend as the promoters for the newly invented perfume as they tried to persuade and sell the perfume to their audience. On the last day of my teaching practices, I was glad to hear that my students enjoyed my literature class the most & would miss me teaching literature as I managed to make the class became more interesting & fun.

The perfumes that the students had invented.

 The Pizza Perfume a.k.a. Victoria Pizza 2.0:

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I found that using mind-map is very useful during the T&L in the classroom. I often used mind-map to deliver my lessons as well as asked my students to draw mind-maps for their presentations. Not only that it is effective (students understand better on the topic that you teach), the students also enjoyed making their own mind-map as creative as possible.

The making of mind-maps...

The final products...

Apart from that, the students seemed to love group work more than individual task. It was proved from time to time that whenever I asked them to do group discussion, they were very enthusiastic to complete the task given. However, when I asked them to do individual work, they took longer time to complete it.

We love group works! :)

Another problem that I had encountered while teaching was pronunciation problem. I had lisp, so sometimes I have difficulties to pronounce certain words properly. There were a few times that I'd been laughed by my students whenever I mispronounced English words. Most of the times, I was aware of the mistakes and quickly pronounced the words again to correct myself. Each time before I entered the class, I would go through my teaching materials and referred to the dictionary in order to know the correct pronunciation of the words that I'm not familiar with. At the end of my third observation by my mentor, I was glad when she told that I've improved in my pronunciation.

Other than that, during the first couple weeks of my teaching practices, Pn. Emily told me to finish up their individual oral presentation. I was in a dilemma at that time and approached my mentor (Pn. Farahnaz) for advice as I did not know whether I should carry on with the task since my time to teach the class was very limited as the final exam was just around the corner. In the end (during Week 4), my mentor told me that I didn't have to proceed with the individual presentation and just focus on my teaching practices as it was not part of my responsibility to complete the task. I was relieved as I was afraid that I might not have enough time to do revision on literature as well as teach them other topics if I needed to continue with the students' oral presentation.

A bunch of very rumbustious students who constantly caused me to be gasping for a breath at the end of every lesson. Teaching those kids definitely consumed a huge amount of energy! @_@

The experience that I went through with 4 Batai is a bittersweet one. I admit that at first, I was a bit reluctant to teach the class. But eventually, I started to enjoy teaching them and proud with the improvements that they had done throughout my teaching practices in SMKDJ. Somehow, they reminded me of myself when I was still schooling. I'm glad that I took the challenge to take over the 'nightmare' class because I definitely had learned a lot by teaching these kids. Personally, I rather teach a bunch of hyperactive kids (like the students in 4 Batai) rather than the passive ones. If I were given the chance to come back to that school again, I would like to continue to teach them as I feel like there are so much more that I would love to teach, do and explore with the kids. To see how eager and enthusiastic they were to participate in the learning & activities that I had provided for them as well as the improvements that they had done were utterly fulfilling. In the end, all the sweats, headaches and heartaches were paid off when I heard them said "You're one of the best teachers that we ever had."

"Experience is the teacher of all things." - Julius Caesar -

How comrades motivate one another

Having read my fellow classmates' reflections, all very inspiring, all very meaningful, I'd just like to share how Fahrul's journey caught my utmost attention. He stated that his problems were his form 4 students had difficulties in writing essays and also his Form 2 class had a little too much of sugar for the day. Knowing Fahrul, he can be very stern yet loving too, therefore he tried to overcome these problems in his own ways. He took the initiative to teach them to create an effective mind-map, so that the students would generate more ideas in writing their essays. As a result, his students were able to write better essays with more elaborations, thanks to the mind-map that they created. Fahrul also took the time to get to know the students, as they even confided him with their worries and problems. I am sure most of the students felt as if they had a 'big brother' who cares for them. Thus, they are now willing to cooperate and produce better work for Fahrul. As for his form 2 class, he took their energy and spirit to an advantage where he made them act, sing and write creative song lyrics! (I could totally imagine how those kids performed 'I recycle and I know it' to the beat of LMFAO, cheeky monsters!) Not only that, Fahrul mentioned the students from other classes who came to talk to him looking for advice. To me, that's a true quality of a teacher.

Besides that, I've also got an eye for Fahmi's journey as he sailed through the ever-challenging waves of students from Bukit Bintang Boys School. Being a big, tall and fierce-looking guy like Fahmi, I'm sure he'd have no problems with the boys there. But the problems he faced was the lack of proficiency, too active, noisy and was not cooperative in his class. I felt inspired by his post mainly because it reminded me of my own situation where I too, had to take charge of students from the lowest class. I'm positive that Fahmi had so many brilliant ideas and teaching aids for his lessons (just like I did), but due to low proficiency of the students, he had to opt for the traditional teaching styles. I personally believe that the bunch of students that you teach have the power to determine whether your lessons will work out the way you plan them to. For example, when I was given the chance to teach Form 4 students who could converse very well in English, my mentor told me my overall performance was much better than when she observed me with my 2 Dalton class. Therefore, in Fahmi's case of teaching his students, games, pictures or flash cards are some of the ways he tried to catch their attention. It's the spirit and his 'don't give up attitude that I truly admire and look up to. There were times when I felt like I wanted to give up too, but I kept on thinking about how my other classmates are coping and that gave me the motivation to stay strong.

I am certain that all of us have done our very best for our teaching practicum, and I am very proud of everyone each time I read a post in this blog. We all have different methods in handling our students, and with that comes all the different stories I am reading! Lastly, practicum is over so happy holidays everyone. Take care and much love :)

Nurul Hanisah

Nothing Great was Ever Achieved without Efforts

Howdy Lovely Comrades,

First and Foremost, I am so sorry for the late posting.. Procrastination brings harm than good to yourself (Ps: Its a note to myself).

So, by the time you read my post, I am sure that all of you are leisurely enjoying yourself at home as we are finally done with our teaching practice.. Guess what?? Its a Wrap, people! :)

Back in line, this post should be meant for my course mates who are really amusing and their stories really amazed me as I read their posts. I was really overwhelmed and talked back to myself, how can they came out with such strategies? and how did they find the spirits to overcome their weaknesses?.. Its a big shout out to Amanda (Liu Shuoyi) and Muniroh.

As for Amanda, in her post, she posted that she has attended the seminar on the students learning style. And she implemented what she learnt to her students. In my point of view, it was great because as a teacher, we cannot expect all students will be able to catch what we taught them. As a teacher, we must know our students preference in learning and adapt it into our teaching. We can devise a lesson that suits the students learning style preference for an effective teaching. As I read her post, I acknowledged her efforts into knowing her students learning style preference in order for her to be able to get their attention during lessons.

That was brilliant Amanda :)

Next is about Muniroh, being class mates, course mates, colleagues, friends and knowing her for more than 3 years, she finally has shown her true colour and she is incredibly inspiring. She gained my respects a lot for being able to overcome her weaknesses. Her post about "Teacher and Microphone" inspired me a lot and it was an eye-opening post for me as "Nothing Great was Ever Achieved without Efforts". She definitely knows how to and she used a microphone to teach and that is nothing to be ashamed for, that shows what she got and she needs to know that her action was truly brave and amazing. Being gifted with a small voice is not a circumstance for her to be a good teacher as long as she has the courage and mission to bring herself upward. Seeing her post reminded me of one of the teacher in SMK Bukit Bandaraya, Miss Yeap. She is a Mathematics teacher, very soft spoken and kindhearted. She has been using microphone for almost 5 years and she said to me, the microphone has been part of herself and the microphone is the source of her strength. How amazing she is and true indeed, she was one of the teacher that I respect during my teaching practice in SMK Bukit Bandaraya. So Muni dear, go on with what you got and keep that confidence in yourself.. I cannot be any prouder of you, you are really great and courageous. 

Based on what I have written, I am truly blessed to be inspired by these two people and I know, the rest of my course mates are very inspiring and hardworking as well. They all have their own strength and ways to overcome their weakness. You are all a dearest to me. 

Winston Churchill said, "Succes is not final, failure is not fatal but it is the courage to continue that counts".

Xoxo -Wan Athirah-

Learning from My Friends (Fourth Reflection)

Learning from My Friends (Fourth Reflection)

Hello friends! This is the end of our teaching practicum. I am sure that each of us has gained many useful experiences about how to teach. i read through all the posts and there are two posts that inspired me the most.

The first post that I have chosen is written by Farha Alia. In her first observation, she asked students to watch the movie trailer of the Avengers. As I know, students love to watch videos; they would feel excited and interested when they were watching videos. Furthermore, she distributed mahjong papers to students to draw the image of superhero and came out with their characteristics by drawing a mind map. Definitely, students would not feel bored at all; they would focus and pay attention to teachers. Because students they love to do fun activities, such as watching movies and drawing pictures. Also she asked students to draw pictures in order to show how creative they are. Moving on, after students finished their drawing, she required students to present what they have done in their mahjong paper. On the other hand, it improves students’ speaking skill. Good job Alia. 

The second post that inspired me the most was Awtif Ghaphar’s. First of all, she conducted ice breaking activity called “back-sweetalking”. For this activity, students would be curious what they might look like in their friends’ eyes. It stimulated students’ abilities. Also it grasped students’ attention to let them feel they are involved. About “My colors and my story” it is interesting; students need to tell a story based on the color they got it from the teacher. Here I have to say it is a very good idea for students to speak out and work in a team. Lastly, she did expectation settings session with the students. it ensures that  students to achieve an efficient and enjoyable lesson. “Goals and Expectations” will build up a competition for students, they will have a sense to do it better once by once. Because they want to get praises and awards from teachers.

I am proud of these two friends as the ways they are teaching, the strategies they are using for; the attitudes they are behaving.

Warmest regards

Ma Feihui

Encourage and Be Proud of Students ( Third Reflection)

Encourage and Be Proud of Students( Third Reflection)

Hello friends! I would like to apologize for my late posting. Sorry, everyone! This is my third reflection. Oh my god, time files, this is 7^th week in our teaching practicum, I am sure I will be sad when the last day is coming.

Form 2 Cekal class: I must have to say, I love my 2 Cekal class. Their English proficiency level is good. In my second reflection, I mentioned about they loved to speak and talk during class. But they are not willing to write an essay. As a teacher, I have to force them to write an essay although they don’t like it. Considering that problem, I planned lots of speaking activities for them, writing tasks are as punishments for them. My supervisor Madam Shanina came to observe my 2 Cekal class once. I prepared literature “heir conditioning”. First of all, I asked students to look at the pictures to indentify which pictures are belonged to past and present. Moving on, I distributed worksheets to students to compare the things we used in past and present based on the poem “heir conditioning”. While stage, I focused on themes. Post stage, I asked students to do the puzzle word games. After observing me, my supervisor said “you are a hardworking girl, I can see you prepare a lot for your lesson today, you are better than your first observation, but there are still rooms to improve, for example: your class is quite good and able to manage easily, their English proficiency level is good, you need to share more experience with students, ask them to talk more and speak more.” 

In addition, my mentor observed me one time in 2 Cekal, I prepared literature “Rumpelstilskin” in class. First of all, I picked some dialogues from drama, then I asked students to show emotions such as anger, joy and happy based on the worksheet they got. Furthermore, I distributed worksheet to them to draw the portrait of the character they were assigned by teacher. Also Athirah and I planned a drama role play for Rumpelstilskin in 2 Cekal and 2 Jujur. We guide students how to act it out, how to use facial expression and body language when they are acting. Students enjoy a lot. I am so proud by every student.

Form 4 Maju class: as I mentioned in my second reflection, students in 4 Maju class were not active. Now it is 7^th week already, they are still not active, but it becomes a bit of better than previous. Due to they are not energetic, so the only way I have to catch their attention is doing fun activities. Such as: after they are finishing their exam, I prepared English tongue-twister for them. During class, I asked students to work in groups; they have to read the tongue twister clearly and quickly. The best groups would get the reward from me. Actually, it works. As a teacher, I tried to use a “reward and punishment” to stimulate their interest. Furthermore, I planned some interesting pictures to let them see how many hidden face they can see based on the picture given. Anyway, they like to do fun activities.

There is one thing in 4 Maju class, I was totally shocked by them. In 2^nd week of teaching practicum, I informed the whole class they would have an oral-test later. The marks would count in their SPM results. So I asked them to pay attention in their oral-test. I even asked them to practice their oral-test during my class sometimes. Every time, I asked them how is it going by their practicing? They all said ok…then I trust them...Now I know I should never trust them. Because...When the day the form teacher Puan Nik came to 4 Maju class to listen their oral-test and give marks for them. OMG…they even have not prepared anything. I called each group to present their oral-test in front of the class. They directly had a discussion in a very last minute. Some groups they were absent, I told them earlier, the day they must come...They still absent...Some students can’t speak one complete sentence. Puan Nik was so angry, she scolded them and questioned them “have they practice before??Students even replied back “YES”…       Puan Nik told them if they want to this way, it would be fine by her...she said that’s the only mark they would get. For students who were absent, they will not get any marks for their oral-test.

After class, they came to see me. Because they want to get another chance to do their oral-test. I discussed with Puan Nik, she said “NO”. I told students they learnt a big lesson if they have not prepare.

Then, for the following weeks, I have been teaching as usual and preparing g my students with their final exams...Form 4 has their exam. I will monitor them when they are having their exam. Furthermore, me and Sophie are helping school to key in marks and assist graduation day in form 5.

Warmest Regards

Ma FeiHui