4th Reflection

Hello all,


Hope everyone had a great week as much as I had. This week's pedagogy class was really interesting as Madam Ng introduces us to new ways of teaching students in a fun way. There are Kahoot !, Brainrush and Heads up. It was quite fun as we could try it out in class. 

I was playing heads up with Irma....it was really fun as Irma was acting out the words and I was answering all wrongly. 

Within this three-way of teaching, I would prefer Kahoot! as a good teaching method as it's easy to answer and also colorful. Kahoot has a time period of 20 -120 seconds to answer a question and I think having a time frame in doing Maths equation is important. Also, not to brag about myself, I always get the highest mark in class when using Kahoot!. It simply because of just picking an answer blankly (maybe my luck) or sometimes thinking carefully and answering. But its really nice to answer the question in class with my friends as its fun to learn together. 

I did my own Kahoot! This is the link:  https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/206ce244-b47b-4514-9cb4-9736bf83f637 . It's a maths subject topic simultaneous equation for form 4 students. 

The learning objectives are :

a) To solve simultaneous equations by changing both equations. 

b) Algebraic solutions to systems of two equations.

c) To reinforce understanding of how to solve harder simultaneous equations by the elimination method.


I will give you the steps on how to solve it and the formula if you have forgotten. Don't worry, I myself forgot how to solve it then I look back on my maths notes that I have been keeping since my form 4 years. 

Steps......

Solution........

That's all for now, please do check on my link and answer it. And don't forget before answering the questions have with you a calculator, pencil or pen and test pad to answer the question. 

Thank You and Have a nice day :)

3rd Reflection

Hello again,

Hope everyone had a great week with a lot of surprises and happiness. Now let me tell you what had happened during my pedagogy class, we had to present one teaching method that we feel is the most effective teaching strategy based on what subject we teach. 

So I choose the Problem Solving method because I am going to teach Maths. And basically the objective of maths subject is to solve the equation in any way of the method. 

Now comes the part of my task. This week my task is to choose two of my classmate's teaching method that I think is effective and also choose one classmate teaching method which I disagree to be effective. 

Firstly, the Flipped Classroom was a new word for me because that's the first time I have ever heard it. But then after one of my classmates presented this method in detail then I got a rough idea of what this method is all about. I think this method is effective because now the 21st century we are living in a world where the internet and technology are as important as clothes and food for every individual. Honestly, they are people like that, to be honest, I am one of them when my dad bought me a phone when I started college and starting from that day I can't live without the internet and a phone in my hand.
Back to the flipped classroom, its actually the opposite of traditional teaching method wherein flipped classroom, students watch lectures at home at their own pace, communicating with peers and teachers via online discussions. And in class time students spent doing labs or interactive activities to illustrate concepts. This method will actually enhance students to use technology for learning and education-wise and also enable students to voice out their views or opinion during class time.

Secondly, the Socratic Learning method, the reason I think is effective because as I understood my classmate presented is that the method encourages students by asking a question about the topic studied to clear doubt and assumptions. Teachers use Socratic methods in a variety of subjects in order to challenge students to examine both contemporary and historical issues. They are steps in this teaching method that will help students enhance their thinking skills, organizing knowledge and helps them to monitor their own learning.

However, there is one teaching method that I don't think it's effective which is feedback because giving feedback is not really necessary unless they are a presentation in class or role play. It actually takes time if teachers want to give feedback on every student. And also some students may take it in a wrong way or misunderstood the feedback. It's better not to give feedback all the time maybe once or twice in the classroom is fine as well.

I think this comes to the end of my blog for today. Hope you all read my blog and do comment below if you have any doubts. 

Thank You and Have a good day :)

2nd Reflection

HI EVERYONE.


This week has been great as usual with a lot of assignment tasks and paperwork, sense the sarcasm....just kidding. I rather take responsibility now and learn how to solve it than doing it during my working days. Now let me tell you what's my second task is THE MISAPPLICATION OF GROUP DISCUSSION. 

What is group discussion @ GD in short form? Group discussion means a group of people sitting in a round or straight table discussing, sharing, debating or agreeing about a topic. With group discussion, every individual will have the confidence to voice out their ideas and opinion. However, they are some misapplication in group discussion that can be avoided for better discussion.

Group Discussion

Firstly, time-consuming. In a group discussion, it involves many individuals. Getting them organized, planning and coordinating their meetings, explaining to them the purpose of having this discussion and goals and finally reaching a solution can be quite a time. It needs a lot of hard work in doing all the planning and organizing. Also, during discussion hour, all information has to be told and finalized within the timeline. Time is wasted if they are unnecessary to talk among members. 

Besides, common misapplication in a group discussion is individual domination. Quite often, discussions in a group are dominated by a few members. Although group discussion is a collective discussion among everyone in the meeting some people usually manage to avoid because of their personality and style of participation. If their behavior is that, thereby there is no use of having a group discussion.

Furthermore, normally at the end of a discussion, there will be a majority vote for a topic. Reaching an agreement can be difficult. In a group discussion, they will be disagreement and agreement in a meeting, that's how it's supposed to be because everyone has their own opinion and ideas regarding the topic. To actually have everyone's reasons and ideas at the end of the meeting is time-consuming so the leader has to give chance to others to speak out their view and ideas before making the final decision.

In conclusion, there are good and bad in group discussion, to overcome the bad impact, everyone in the group has to work together as a team, being punctual, giving attention and help each other in solving problems. These will enhance teamwork in every individual.

Thank You.