WHAT I HAVE DISCOVERED

                    During this course, I have discovered about the School Of Thought which divided into 3 such as The Cognitive School Of Thought, The Humanistic School Of Thought and The Behavioral School Of Thought. Each School Of The Thought has its own teaching model. Madam Ng has taught us on how to open a Blogger and a Window Writer that can help us to improve our writing and indirectly help us in the examination. I'm not sure about others but Padlet was a new for me as we all required to give our own response on spot and we able to see what others are typing as well.

                     Madam Ng also taught us about the Lesson Plan.She taught u what is a lesson plan, what are the elements should be in a lesson plan that are effective and how the lesson plan can help us in  our teaching. She made us to create our own lesson plan according to the majoring that we are taking and will be guiding us if we made mistake.

                      She even taught us on how to do good power point slides that are effective for our teaching and learning. To make sure that we understand what she has taught us and we are able to use it, she made us to come up with our own power point slides to evaluate us. Madam Ng taught us on the classroom management. She taught us on how to manage a classroom, what are the rules and regulations should a teacher set in a classroom whether the teacher is a classroom teacher or only a subject - matter teacher, how to approach the students that are weak, naught and has a discipline problems and how to conduct the classroom well.

                      She made the mock teaching as the second assignment for us. This assignment is not to make the students' lives difficult but to reveal them a clear picture about a live of a teacher. By doing the lesson plans, our own notes and worksheets, we have learned that life of a teacher is not as easy as how we thought, To become a teacher, we really must committed. I'm sure that due to our interest to become a teacher, we able to adapt it. All of us manage to do the lesson plans. Most of us have done the mock teaching according to the schedule that Madam Ng has prepared and we realize that the mock teaching creates fear and nervous but at the same time we were enjoying the mock teaching. We gained new experience through it.

                       Madam Ng is a person who doesn't like power point slides. That is the reason why we don't have any power point notes. The only notes that we receive from Madam Ng is about the School Of Thought. During her class, she will be giving the notes as she teaches where the notes indirectly came from the discussion that she had with us. It is up to us whether we want to wrote it or not. Therefore, if you missed her class means you have missed her notes as well. It is then depends to your friends whether they want to give it to you or not.

                         As a conclusion, Madam Ng has taught us everything and it is up to us now how we going to apply the knowledge that we have learned during our practicum or in our real teaching live. Lastly, I would like to wish all the best to my classmates for the upcoming examinations until that have fun during the Christmas holidays.  

                       

                       

                     

About Mock Teaching

THE MOCK TEACHING THAT I PREFER

                  So far 4 classes of mock teaching are done and most of us have done our best. From the mock teaching that I have seen, I prefer Sir Denslee. He taught Ekonomi that day. This is because he came up with different kind of ways to attract the students to pay attention on what he going to teach. When he went in front of the class with his sugar papers, I realize that everyone was paying attention as he was sticking them on the board. Students who happen to be us feel curious as there are 5 sugar papers and all of them were close. Therefore, to find out what was inside, we tend to give our attention to Sir Denslee. Before he starts his lesson, he gave us notes in the form of booklet so that we are on track with him and not left behind. This is because there are empty spaces in the notes that require us to fill up as Sir Denslee is teaching. The words in the sugar papers wasn't big enough as those who were sitting at the behind unable to read it. So, he makes the students to involve in his class as he chooses the students randomly to read what was in the sugar paper. The materials in the sugar papers were attracting and interesting. In the notes itself there were worksheets to be done as homework. We can see that he really put a lot of effort to prepare the sugar papers and the notes. I like the way Sir Denslee speaks. Even he was struggling a little with his words but I guess Sir Denslee done his best.

WHAT THINGS SHOULD BE AVOIDED DURING MOCK TEACHING?

                       Since this is the first time most of us teaching in front of the a number of students, so definitely each of us make mistakes as we were nervous and worry on how we going to do the mock teaching. There will be so many questions playing in our mind but no matter what we have to overcome the fear and just do it. It is better for us to do the mistakes here rather than doing it during our practicum. So, from the mock teaching that I have seen, there are few things that should be avoided during the mock teaching. 

                       Firstly, as a teacher, you shouldn't just read the slides. You should remember that the slides are only as a guidance for you to conduct your lesson. By you reading the slides, students tend to get bored as they able to read it by themselves too and you for sure not going to get the attention from your students. Therefore, as a teacher, try to minimize on reading the slides and use the points  to help you to explain using your own words.

                        Secondly, as a teacher, you shouldn't keep looking at the watch as you are teaching. That might create negative impressions from your students such as they might think that you are rushing until they won't be asking you questions if they don't understand and they might think that you can not wait to go out from the classroom. I'm sure that punctually is important but it shouldn't affect your lesson and your students.

                           Next, as a teacher, you should speak louder so that all your students can understand what you are saying, asking and teaching. If you have a soft voice, students will not understand what you are saying and this might lend them not to participate in your class.

                           Lastly, as a teacher, you must make sure that you are well prepared before entering the classroom. This is to ensure that you know what you going to teach and what worksheets to be given to your students on that particular period of your class. If not, you don't exactly know what to do during your class. This indirectly gives negative impression to the students as they think that the teacher is not good enough and they tend to do their own work in the class.  

Mock Teaching

                  Mock teaching is the 2nd Assignment for Pedagogy subject. My lecturer has made a schedule for us indicating the date and time for each of us to follow. I guess I was lucky because I'm in the first group for the mock teaching.

                        Since, I already know my date and time for mock teaching, I was busy doing my assignment. I was asked to prepare 3 lesson plans regarding the major subject that I took which is Mathematics. It wasn't easy to prepare a lesson plan because we need to consider many aspects before planning it.

                         Somehow I manage to do the lesson plan. Each lesson plan that I have done, I will e-mail it to my friend to go through whether my lesson plan is correct or not. I am thankful to her for helping me out. Once I have done the 3 sets of the lesson plan including the worksheets and notes, I have choose one of the lesson plan to conduct my mock teaching. I was preparing for my mock teaching as I plan to teach on Form 2 Directed Number.

                             I was really worried and nervous for the mock teaching because I only have experience giving tuition to individual students and not in front of a big group so I am sure that it s going to be a great challenge for me. I am a type of person who gets nervous easily if I had to stand in front of a big crowd whether to give a speech or presenting anything. Therefore, to overcome my nervous and fear, I guess I need to practice teaching at home before I teach on the date and time schedule by my lecturer.

                                 I have to photocopy 10 notes and 6 worksheets to distribute it to my students who happen to be my own classmates on that particular day. I hope that they will be giving response to me by asking questions and answering my questions. I will make sure that I will also give full support to my friends when they are doing their mock teaching. We need to help each other to ensure that everyone does well.

                                   I hope that the mock teaching goes well according to the schedule and I wish my entire classmates ALL THE BEST and hope they will do well. 

                   

                        

RULES AND REGULATIONS

                               When there are rules and regulations everyone know that there is a limit on the particular things that they are doing. Everyone dislikes rules and some tend to just break it without caring about the consequences. Everyone should realize that following rules and regulations ensure that they are discipline person.

                              If I become a classroom teacher for Form 1 students,I definitely will set few rules for the students to follow to ensure the effectiveness of my classroom. Below are the rules and regulations I would like to set for my students.

                                   PUNCTUALITY. Students must be punctual to school and class. This is to ensure that they are not missing any notes and lessons taught by the teachers. Practicing to be punctual will be a good for their future because they will be on time for their appointments, meetings or work.

                                   BE NEAT. Students must make sure that they are wearing their tie and the name tag as they are in the school. This is to show others the identity of the school. Students also must make sure that their nails are short. Boy students should keep their hair short and neat and as for the girl students who have long hair, they must always tie the hair neatly. This is to ensure the students' hygiene and neatness. 

                   

                                       KEEP THE CLASSROOM CLEAN. There should be a daily duty roster and students must make sure that they are following it. This is to ensure the classroom is clean, hygiene and it will create a good environment for them.

                                         RESPECT THE TEACHERS. When the class is going on all the students should listen to what the teachers are teaching, saying and explaining. Respect the teachers as teachers are older than them. Know your limit as student and behavior well.

                                              DO NOT FIGHT OR RUN AROUND THE CLASSROOM. This is to ensure the safety of the students. It also prevents them for getting injured in the classroom. 

                                      

                                               The above rules and regulations that I have set for the students are easy to follow as it gives benefit to them. Complicated rules make the students not to follow the rules. As a conclusion, rules and regulations are compulsory for everyone to ensure they are on right track for their present and future lives.