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The class for today was quite ‘gloomy’, since all the Muslims are still in Hari Raya mood. The most important thing that keeps tapping my head is the assignment. I am still planning what to teach for the lesson plan and it seemed quite unreasonable to say so because it should be handed in next week. But, we cannot put the blame to anyone since we really got abundance of task to be completed lately, in addition with the Hari Raya celebration. Since most of us are still in the process of planning and searching for teaching resources, Puan Foziah has given this class time for us to prepare, continue, and do whatever that we can in order to complete this last, tough assignment. In addition, we has been given a golden opportunity to ask any questions to Puan Foziah regarding our assignment, and there has been quite numbers of us approaching her in order to clarify or get more explanation regarding the assignment.
Since this assignment is the toughest among the all, I really has to put more effort and the brain of a teacher inside my head so that I will manage to complete the task successfully. Besides that, this assignment is challenging in the sense that it test our wisdom in applying all the technological skills that we have learnt throughout the eleventh week in the process of producing the teaching aids for the lesson plan. Skills like picture editing, video editing, and audio editing are some of the fundamental needs that we need to acquire in order to produce a better, practical teaching aids that will help us as the teacher to achieve the objective of our lesson. All this skills cannot be acquired at the same time, (especially for me), hence I need to practice using this skill consistently so that I will manage to explore and improve my skills in it. I am now realize to important of acquiring all this editing skills since most of the teaching resources available in the internet sometimes not suit with the lesson that we want to teach. Why? The most basic reason is because of the target group itself. The uniqueness of young learners especially in their cognitive ability, learning style and attention span required a teacher to be more sensitive in selecting teaching materials in the classroom. We don’t want the real purpose of using teaching aids which is to support the learning in the classroom being distracted by the ignorance of a teacher in suiting the teaching materials with the learners’ needs. Therefore, a good teacher must be the one who are sensitive enough with the learners’ characteristics and are equipped with essential knowledge on how to modify the available teaching aids around them in order to pitch at the right level with the learners’ needs and abilities. There is no need to use such an outstanding, marvelous teaching aids which will add more confusion to students. Be simple and practical in our teaching.
In addition, I really feel that this resources class was a training centre for us as a ‘teacher to be’ to equipped ourselves with all the skills that I have mentioned above so that it will not be a big problem to us when we start our teaching practice next two semester. This assignment is really tough for me, but when it requires me to think a lot, reflect on what I have learnt in the classroom and apply the knowledge into real action, there is a sense of worthiness since it is like a practical work for me as a teacher-trainee who sometimes forget that being a teacher is not just a matter of teaching in the class, but there are many factors to be considered in order to produce a quality teaching.
Since this assignment is the toughest among the all, I really has to put more effort and the brain of a teacher inside my head so that I will manage to complete the task successfully. Besides that, this assignment is challenging in the sense that it test our wisdom in applying all the technological skills that we have learnt throughout the eleventh week in the process of producing the teaching aids for the lesson plan. Skills like picture editing, video editing, and audio editing are some of the fundamental needs that we need to acquire in order to produce a better, practical teaching aids that will help us as the teacher to achieve the objective of our lesson. All this skills cannot be acquired at the same time, (especially for me), hence I need to practice using this skill consistently so that I will manage to explore and improve my skills in it. I am now realize to important of acquiring all this editing skills since most of the teaching resources available in the internet sometimes not suit with the lesson that we want to teach. Why? The most basic reason is because of the target group itself. The uniqueness of young learners especially in their cognitive ability, learning style and attention span required a teacher to be more sensitive in selecting teaching materials in the classroom. We don’t want the real purpose of using teaching aids which is to support the learning in the classroom being distracted by the ignorance of a teacher in suiting the teaching materials with the learners’ needs. Therefore, a good teacher must be the one who are sensitive enough with the learners’ characteristics and are equipped with essential knowledge on how to modify the available teaching aids around them in order to pitch at the right level with the learners’ needs and abilities. There is no need to use such an outstanding, marvelous teaching aids which will add more confusion to students. Be simple and practical in our teaching.
In addition, I really feel that this resources class was a training centre for us as a ‘teacher to be’ to equipped ourselves with all the skills that I have mentioned above so that it will not be a big problem to us when we start our teaching practice next two semester. This assignment is really tough for me, but when it requires me to think a lot, reflect on what I have learnt in the classroom and apply the knowledge into real action, there is a sense of worthiness since it is like a practical work for me as a teacher-trainee who sometimes forget that being a teacher is not just a matter of teaching in the class, but there are many factors to be considered in order to produce a quality teaching.
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