My Nine Reflection

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       Sadly to say, this will be the last blog and reflection for all us in Pedagogy Class. I actually have learn a lot until today mostly from Madam Ng. As today our last topic and reflection. "Which mock teaching I feel is the best? Honestly, everyone have did the best and it was our first mock teaching. Sometimes mistakes do happen but that is the way we can practice and make it perfect for our future mock teaching. From all the mock teaching I find that Yau's mock teaching was good. And it was her last mock teaching and the activity she uses was good. Yau use poerpoint to teach us and she explain it well for topic continuous tense and than she gave us activity on jigsaw. It is not easy to complete jigsaw activity within 30 minutes but she managed to do it. Really proud of her. I have learn that be confident, when we are confident we can managed and complete everything even which is impossible. And then she gave some handout to do when we go back home.Even she have few more minutes she uses it to show is videos which relate with her topic of teaching. So, I think that Yau's mock teaching was the best.

Yau's mock teaching

        It was a great time, seeing all my classmates done with their mock teaching and seeing their long smile on their face. Everyone did great the great job and pass with flying colors. I will just wish all my classmates do well for there examination which will be around the corner next month. Good luck girls and boys.

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My Eight Reflection

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           This have been my eight reflection blog. Today I am going to share my learning experiences in preparing for mock teaching. Preparing mock teaching is really not easy at all because I need to make my lesson plan on which topic I am going to teach to my classmates. Besides preparing 3 lesson plan, 3 teaching approach, timeline, powerpoints and handouts for students is not easy with short time of period even there are other assignment which is still pending yet. But I manage to do it and send my assignment 2 even it was abit late. For my mock teaching I felt so nervous because for the first time I am teaching.

My First time Mock Teaching.

          My topic of choice that I choose was Idiom Expression. Before I presented for my mock teaching I was training myself for few days with all the Idiom Expression with the meaning. As a teacher before I teach my students I have to know what is idiom expression and being prepare with so that I can answer my students questions. But it was a really good experience I had. I manage to answer my friends question and try my best to make the class fun. I did Mime and Gesture activity with students and it went well. But I was abit nervous about the timing and whether i can complete my activity with my students. I  took extra 5 minutes and which I must not do. As a teacher I need to follow the right timing so that I can achieve my lesson plan. Next time, If i have this chance to do mock teaching I will prepare myself more better because I already know how is mock teaching like. I really had a good experience with mock teaching and I will never regret it at all.


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My Seven Reflection

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I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekends. As  for this time, we did something different in the classroom. Madam told us to go through on few article and explain whether beating students who come late to school and breaking school rules is a good method? For me, I find that beating students is not a proper way to discipline students to be good, As a teacher, he or she shall sit and counsel the student who always come late to school or who is having problem. By doing this, students will tend out their problem and teachers can give an advice so that the student can change and improve on his behavior. 

           If I were the classroom teacher, how many rules I am going to enforce? I have to list and explain the purpose of the enforced rule to students. Firstly, is implementing demerit points. When students can not complete their homework they will be given demerit point so that they will be aware and complete their homework before entering the class. Besides that, students have to stay focus in class while teacher is teaching. And they have to respect when teacher is talking. This is important so that students pay attention in classroom and never get distracted by their friends. This is just few rules that I will implement first in the classroom. 

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My Six Reflection

What I have discovered ?

Hello everyone, once again ! Thank you for taking your time going through my Blog. As Madam told us to go through on a article on "Navigating The Bump Road To Student-Centered Instruction". But most of us haven't read that article on that day so Madam gave us for 45 Minutes to read on that article and then we need to find points on " Why student think student- centered instruction will not work for them" and "Why teacher implement student-centered instruction". After going through the article I have list down what i have understand about student-centered instruction. Student-centered instruction is a learning that are known as learner-centered and it is more focus to students by teachers. The article help me to understand the article better in getting more information.

              After completing reading the article and getting some information on the question. Madam told us to list down 5 points on why students think this method will not work for them and why teachers implement this method in classroom. And we need to post it in Uniec as well. In my point of view, this method will not work because students need teachers "to spoon feed them". Students depend on teacher a lot and they need teacher to guide them in everything even to solve the problem. And this is some of the reason why student find that student-centered will not work out. However, teachers will still want to implement this method in the classroom because teachers want students to be more critical thinking in solving problem and being more independent. They want to create a quality student by using this method. This is what I discovered in the classroom.

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My Fifth Reflection

What I have discovered?

Hello everyone ! Nice to meet you again. Okay this time our reflection blog is what I have discovered in classroom today. As this week, we were asked to make handouts with the original handouts that were given by our lecture to us. The handout that was given are English, Economic and Maths subject. We were ask to redesign it back because there were some technical error and some mistakes on the handouts. As a teacher we need to prepare a good handouts for students without having mistakes and error. So, during class we were divided to few groups with just 2 or 3 members. In my group Hema and myself only. So, we was given some time to correct our handout in the classroom and later we have to discuss and show it in front of our classmates and our Madam.

                After correcting some error in the handout  we list it down so that it will be easy to explain later. We have to takes pictures of the handouts and post it in whatsapp. Then madam will put and show it using projector to all the classmates. I have discovered a lot of new information and fact from my friends when they share what they think about the handouts. As we going through  it, we find some mistakes on the handout such as numbering, not enough spacing, not so much example for maths question and more. It actually help me to learn on how to do a good handout and making my students to understand better.

               On the same week itself, I have discovered on how to do a proper powerpoint slides for my students. Madam Ng was teaching us doing the right powerpoint and this can help us when we going to do our practical once we completed our degree. She told us to use less images or cartoon in the slides and it have to be plan and formal. The content in it is the most important things because it will help students to understand better comparing putting images which is not related to the topic that we going to teach. We need to consider the right font, size font, background color of the slides and the right pictures for the slides. And this will help me to make my other powerpoints better and clear with point that can be understood by the student clearly.


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My fourth Reflection

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          Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope all of you have a wonderful day today. As today in pedagogy class I have learn to create my own games and I am really happy about. As today Madam Ng told us to divided to 5 groups with 4 person in a group. Then she ask us to choose a paper for the activity that we going to do. My group members was Premila, Ashwini, Gayathri and myself. We got a topic on Brainrush and we need to create an activity with using brainrush and then we need to present in front of the classroom and teach the students on the activity that we did. Other groups have difference topic as well which is Kahoot, Heads up and some have Brainrush as well. During the brainrush we decide to do topic on idioms expression and we create it with the idioms and the meaning. Students have to choose which idiom is correct with the right meaning. While we present it in the classroom students tend to answer well with question that we prepared.

            After presenting it Madam Ng told us to prepare a new games for students and post it in the blog. I made a game which is the brainrush online game. This online activity are more about past, present and future tense that i created. I find it interesting and I will like everyone to try it out.


The ink is below here :-
http://www.adaptivepractice.com/lesson/past-present-or-future-tense

My Third Reflection

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         I hope everyone of you had a wonderful weekends. This week I have to complete my third reflection because I was given a task in our previous pedagogy class by our lecture. Madam Ng  told us to find 10 effective teaching strategy and explain which one is the right method for our teaching strategy and we need to explain why in the classroom. I actually have learn a lot of teaching method from my friends. I choose discussion strategy as one of the effective teaching strategy.  While I am majoring in Language and Literature, I think discussion strategy can be an effective teaching for English classroom. Students can discuss essays, speaking and doing group activities together. By doing this they can actually get different opinion and idea from everyone. It is a good method of teaching were students will engage with each other and share their knowledge.

             However, during my classmates presenting I did find that there are few teaching method that I found it interesting which is Role-playing and problem solving approach. Role-playing involve students to act out in the classroom and this is an effective teaching method for students. Role-playing helps students to understand the particular subject better. Such and example for history subject. Students have to act out so that they can have a clear understanding on the topic. And this is an interesting method where students will work in the team and create a role-playing activities.
However, for problem solving is also an effective method where students will tend to be more critical thinking and solving the problem that occurs. Such as an example, for maths question we need to solve it to find the examples and we need to use the formula that are given to us. It is also a good teaching method and are interesting and also important for teachers to implement it in the classroom.

             Besides that, we need to list one teaching method that we disagree as a effective teaching method. During presentation by my friends, the teaching method that i disagree which is feedback. I do like feedback but I find that it is not good teaching method for students in classroom. Sometimes feedback will never take place in the classroom because teachers are more focus on students. And students will tend to be shy and scared to ask question to teachers in the classroom. The will prefer asking after class to teacher or to their classmates. So, I find that it can not be an effective teaching method to students.


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My Second Reflection

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               Today I am planning to finish my second reflection which I haven't done yet. Hehehe.  I find that today is very beautiful day because after so long KL is raining and the weather is slightly better than before. I feel less warm today in hostel. Okay ! Lets proceed. Today my reflection two is about the misapplication of group discussion. As we all know group discussion always be done during classes that were given by our teacher to complete a task. It is also an interview process where a set of people are given a topic to present their views on the topic to reach to a conclusion in favor of or against it. But we also know that sometimes we misuse it for other purposed.

          As you can see, this picture above tells everything what really happening in a group discussion. Firstly the misapplication of group discussion is the one person that always dominate the group and never give another members to speak out. By dominating the group they can not tell their points and fear of talking because they feel that their point are in relevant. This dominating group will interrupt the group discussion while others member trying to explain their point. And this will make the discussion uncompleted and maybe they will lose some important information. We shall give other member in the group to talk and give their views. However,  misapplication of group discussion can be gossiping also. They will tend to gossip more than having discussion. Others who find that the discussion  very bored will tend to gossip and never relate to the topic of discussion. This discussion are more in gossiping rather than having group discussion. Poor communication  skills can also be the misapplication group discussion. When our communication is bad we tend to keep quiet and will talk less in group discussion. This will never help us in giving ideas in group discussion and it will never be a successful discussion. We might have little point as well. Having good communication skills in members can help the group discussion to discuss the topic clearly and have many points as possible. This is the few misapplication of group discussion.

That is all from me now, hope to share my next reflection real soon :D

My First Reflection

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               Today I was given a task to do my reflection 1 on our previous discussion with Madam Ng. Our Assignment 1 is our " Blog". So we have to post all the activities in here. As the last discussion we were divided into 3 groups and were given different topics on school of thought. There are three main school of though which is  Cognitive approach, Humanistic approach and Behavioral approach. Our group have to present about humanistic approach and my task was given by my group is to find the theory of the model in humanistic approach. Humanistic approach focused on hidden internal experience and emphasis the role of feelings into learning experience. One of the model is Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of human needs.

Maslow's hierarchy of human needs

                 There are a lot of advantages in humanistic approach for students in school. It increase their achievement in academic and also improve their learning. After presenting on humanistic approach. Our lecture told us to identify  2 negative points of humanistic and I have to suggest how to counter the 2 negative items. Firstly the negative of humanistic approach is groups. In humanist approach, classroom puts emphasis on the individual and students spend much of the time in class working in groups. This tends to lead students to discuss matters unimportant to the topic at hand. Besides that it leads to extroverted students monopolizing the discussion and giving a large disadvantages to more introverted student. And this will discourage the students who are low achievement feel embarrassment in the group and they will tend to keep their talent and performance with them and will not voice out their opinion.

                     However, lack of competitiveness can be the negative point in humanistic approach. It is because humanistic approach focus on individual development, the idea on competition is dis-emphasized. The result is that students learning from humanistic approach are less competitive compared to students learning in traditional schools. And students will not lead to better performance once they graduated and enter into workplace or university.

                     To overcome this negative approach teachers plays a big role in guiding the students. Teachers shall see students performances and also guide the students which is low in academic performances. And she must encourage all students to take part and voice out in the  group activities and not even one students left out. Besides that, Academic competition is a must for students because it can encourage students to work harder on their studies and help them get excited about academic content. They might retain more as they prepare for quiz, spelling and standardized tests. Teachers often use team-based competitions to make academic more interesting and engaging. However, even teachers can method such as rewarding in encouraging students to performance better in the task and  perform more better in the next task.

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About Myself :)

          Hello everyone, Thank you for taking your time viewing my blog. First of all, I will like to introduce myself to all of you. My name is Jasvinder kaur. You can call me as Jasvin. I am 21 years old this year and my hometown is in Ipoh, Perak. To pursue my dream in becoming a teacher I decided to take Bachelor Of Education (Hons) in Unitar International University. Even it is far away from my hometown and my parents almost 2 hours 30 minutes and 183km far. I still determine to study in this university to become a successful and a holistic teacher. Now I am in semester 3 in education course and I have decided to take Language and Literature as my major course. I will like to better my english and my grammar by taking this course.

This is my picture of myself:)

           And I also will like to thank Madam Ng for asking us to make a blog for Pedagogy subject. This is the first time I am making a blogspot for myself. I find it interesting because I can share some reflection topic about what I feel and how much I understand on it. Before taking this course, I was studying in secondary school in Smk Main Convent, Ipoh, It have been almost 11 years I am in girls school. Than later I continue my education in Smk St Michael, Ipoh in Form Six. Even STPM was tough but i find it interesting because of the school environment and also the teachers in the school was great. They was so helpful and always inspire us to be a better students. I always love their advises and motivation that always inspire me to be like them.This give me a good impact to myself to become a teachers and share knowledge like them to students. Below here is a picture when i  am in From Six.

Form Six Art Class 1

           However, I have passion in "Arts". Arts is always connected to my heart and it bring me peace when I am alone, or sad. I always wanted to be an arts teacher because I love arts so much but I find that it is not a good choice. My teacher use to say to us that "Sometimes in life, you can not get what you want" the most important is "What you need ". I find that becoming a Language teacher can open so many chances in job field wider compare to arts. But I will never give up with my talent and arts. Maybe it will be useful to me one day and I am really sure about it. Good luck to me in chasing my dreams !! : D

Here are few drawing pictures that I had drew