Assignment LTP
Assignment LTP
Setting up rules is important for the students. This is ensuring that they do not
misbehave later throughout the lesson. I should have set simple rules first after they
have entered the classroom. Rules such as those who are misbehaving should
answer my questions about the pictures in the set induction could be beneficial in
controlling the classroom but only for a limited amount of time. Speaking about time,
there are 15 minutes lost because they entered the class late, therefore the stress on
setting up rules in such classroom is not practical but can be done if there are
enough amount of time given.
Some of the students in classroom year 4 Nilam also do not understand
simple English. This is because they are used to communicate in their mother tongue
and does not practice English language in their conversations. However, there are
some that can understand English well but they need to hear instructions twice and
added body gestures to make them understand better. Repetitions and clear
pronunciations of the instructions given to the students is a must so that they could
understand what the teacher asks them to do.
After the students have settled down, our lesson plan was supposed to be a
one hour lesson. However, due to the 15 minutes loss, we have to make an
adjustment which is to shorten each stage in our microteaching session. The time set
for the set induction stage was supposed to be 5 minutes, due to the lack of time, I
have shorten it to 3 minutes instead. The set induction was very simple as I use two
pictures of the effects of sea pollution towards sea animals, specifically jellyfish and
seagulls but it does make the students aware on the effects as they could answer my
questions of what could happen if these animals of the sea eat the garbage thrown in
the sea.
Next, for the pre-listening stage, I point the students about the 3R: Reduce,
Reuse & Recycle. Children learn effectively through scaffolding by adults. (Bruner,
1983) At first, the students could not guess what the meaning of each R is but as I
progress and scaffold them, I relate it with the old newspaper that I have and show it
to the students so that they could relate it with their previous knowledge. They do
know that by Reduce or using fewer papers, fewer trees are cut off. They can save
trees by Reusing the papers and by Recycling, they could make new items using the
papers. To make the students more aware, I should have brought more items that
can be recycled to show the students that not only papers can be recycled, but other
items as well. But due to time constrain, I have to shorten the time and progress
immediately for Alvin to continue his lesson.
I should have not wiped off the 3R concept on the white board because the
students have a very limited attention span and can lose their memory towards what
have been thought to them. To solve this, I should be reminding the students about
the 3R concept by not erasing the concept on the whiteboard for the students to refer
to when the lesson progresses. I should also learn the effective whiteboard
management because I wrote about the 3R concept that took most of the space on
the whiteboard. This will lead me to wipe off the concept that the students are
referring to because I wanted to use the white board to write new content. Teachers
should be expert at whiteboard management because by forming a linkage of content
on the whiteboard, the students would be able to grasp the knowledge immediately. I
should have write the concept of 3R on the left or right side of the whiteboard and
using smaller fonts allowing more space for new content of the lesson to be written.
As a conclusion, I have successfully delivered the set induction stage and prelistening stage. However, due to time constrains and excessive amount of energy
generated from the students from their previous class, it was not smooth as I hope it
would be and technical errors such as poor whiteboard management should be
improved in order to tackle the interest of the students from class 4 Nilam.