3rd Class Reflection

  Hello there! Im here again, still Wednesday right? i think so. haha. This week's class postponed from Tues to Wed due to some reason. After dropping mum to her office, Aiyak! received msg from lecturer about will be late to class, should have sleep for another 30minutes. Hahahahah. JkJk.

  

   Sent this photo in group to lecturer captioned 'we are still waiting patiently, hahahaha'. My friend scolded me for putting this caption, he say it sounds so sarcastic and rude. I wanted to take the opportunity to say sorry to everyone included friends and lecturer, i didn't meant to be such no manners. I'm sorry, I'm just being over playful.. I'm sorry everyone, i really didn't meant to sound sarcastic and rude to you all T-T. Thank you Bobo friend for 'scolding' me. I'm real sorry. 😖😖😖

  Let's back to our topic of the day. We discussed the article about ' Navigating the bumpy road to student-centered instruction'. This article talks about what is student-centered, the 8 stages students will experience for adapting student-centered education(i actually like the 5th stage, 'surrender and acceptance', hahahaha) and 11 problems from educators and some included the solution. 

 

  When you see the 'R' word. Means it's another task for our blog post. Here comes our 3rd reflection blog post's task-to-do. (yes, the dark shadow inside is our lecturer)

  Our task, which means 4 issues x 2 methods to solve = 8 of them. :D Good luck have fun. hahahha. 

Lets get started.

Issue 1::

Never get through the syllabus.  

Solution::

1. Choose appropriate activity that suit the duration of class, and ofcause suitable for the topic that is going to teach. Sometimes, even asking a short question to students will helps too. Not really must be something very complicated or heavy.

2. Control the duration of activities given, not too long maybe around 10 to 15minutes would be more than enough.

3. Focus on critically important or conceptually difficult part in class while give students task which is requesting them to read themselve for the rest of the notes. (To spotcheck them, maybe you could randomly pick a question and ask them about the notes you ask them to rad themselve.)

Issue 2::

Hitchhikes / sleeping member? In group assignment or activities. Some students will tend to be a leech which not suck blood, but suck marks.

Solution::

1. After students hand in the answer/assignment, educator can pick random group member, pick random question from the answer/assignment given and ask. If the student couldn't answer... Hmmmmmm, maybe try a few more questions before judging him/her is a hitchhiker.

2.  Another way to solve this is, if student's examination result is drastically different from the assignment's/class activity's mark, maybe you should recheck his/her work.  

3. Educators can set a rule in the class, if students themselve allow hitchhikes among them, and if educator found out, maybe punishment for whole group? Such as redo the whole activity? but first, you must give a chance the students to tell you who is the group's leech. Always give them sometime to explain.

 

(little entertainment before continue reading this longggggg passage)

Issue 3::

Lost control of the class. When given group activity and discussion among students is allowed. Students will tend to talk, talk and talk. This make the class is not under controlled.

Solution::

1. If students make noise, it is fine because without noise or talking, the discussion cannot be done. BUT, educators can control by warning or remind them in a gentle way whenever they 'talk' outside the topic. 

2. Allow them to talk for solid 2 or 3minutes. Sometimes, after a 'great' chat of few minutes, student's attention could be drawn back to the classroom. Or maybe students is a bit too tired? Educator can consider to give a 5minutes break to allow students to freshen up a bit before starting the next activity in class. Small tips, remember before you give them a break, make a deal with them for not being noisy after you have given that few minutes break, students will do as what they had promised to. No harm trying?

3. Educators can give them 'special rewards'. For example, the noisiest group or the naughtiest one will have their presentation first. or maybe, they will have extra many questions or a longer Q&A section from other students and educators. I think students themselve will have a little self-control after knowing these 'special rewards' they are going to face? But ofcause, educators must warn them or introduce them to this 'special rewards' to ensure they will be aware of the 'danger' they are going to face soon. hahahaha

Issue 4::

After assign reading, students don't read and many of them couldn't understand independently.

Solution::

1. As suggested before, educator can ask question about the article or the reading materials assigned. This could check whether students did or did not read.

2. At the beginning, lecturer could try to assign a much easier or shorter reading material to students. Allow them to adapt to the changes first before giving a 100pages reading material. This will really Shock them! A short or lighter reading could allow them to understand the passage independently easily than a long one.

3. Educators can run through once for the reading given. Maybe a small discussion in class or a Q&A section for them to ask you about what they do not understand. Do give them some assistant sometimes. =]

Practise makes perfect?

  Everything is hard and tough in the beginning but when we get used to it, It will be fine. Good Luck to you! Future educator!

  Here comes another class photo, Vimaj is not in now. and sorry JemJem, you look 'handsome' here. Hahahahaha.

 

  To add on back, i uploaded this video of you eating orange, specially for you only. Hahahaha. XD 

  Today, Bobo say, 'I realise the class now is much relax and easier compared with the first class?' I do agree. Maybe it's because we used to it already? Or..? I don't know. Today lecturer show us the schedule for our mock teaching and if I'm not mistaken, after all students done their mock teaching, we have no more class after that? I don't know why, i felt a little sad. Lol. Time really FLIES. So fast left another month + of class only? Wao! What had i been doing for the pass... 2months?  Soon, quarter of 2017 is gone? So fast,  really very very fast. Hmmm.. here i stop my typing. Time to accompany my darling-- Bed. Good night everyone. Sleep tight!

  Read 1/3 of Totto-Chan. She's a cute little girl. :) 

  Downloaded a new apps named 'Scratch'. Haven try it, but will play. hahaha

Sweet dreams.