INSTITUT PENDIDIKAN GURU

KAMPUS GAYA, KOTA KINABALU.

PROGRAM IJAZAH SARJANA MUDA PERGURUAN

DENGAN KEPUJIAN (PISMP)

TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (TESL)

(AMBILAN JUN 2019)

KERJA KURSUS PELAJAR

NAMA PELAJAR HO CHIT FOOK

NO KAD PENGENALAN 000716-12-1941

KAD MATRIK 2019072340008

KUMPULAN/OPSYEN PISMP, TESL SK1 (AMBILAN JUN 2019)

TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
(TESL)

NAMA KURSUS BEHAVIOURAL AND DISCIPLINE MANAGEMENT

KOD EDUP 3043

KREDIT 3

SESI AUGUST-DECEMBER 2020

TUGASAN TASK 2: ACADEMIC WRITING

TARIKH HANTAR 27 NOVEMBER 2020

NAMA PENSYARAH DR. DOREN RUAYAH HERMAN

AKADEMIK
NAMA PENYELARAS KURSUS DR. DOREN RUAYAH HERMAN

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RECEIVING LECTURER’S FEEDBACK

I hereby acknowledge that I have received feedback from the lecturer and I have also referred it
and understood it.

…………………………………..
(HO CHIT FOOK)
Date:
1.0 Introductions

Classroom management is one of the issues to ensure students’ high academic

achievements. According to Abdul et. Al (2014), classroom management is one of teacher’s
daunting tasks. Most teachers have difficulty to maintain the harmonious atmosphere in the
classroom. Based on Ron Clark’s movie, Mr. Ron Clark took the challenge to teach the most
problematic in the school. He tried his best to control the students but to no avail. He gave
up but advices given by his friend motivated him to give it another try. Initially, he has some
difficulties in managing the students’ discipline. After that, he tried his best to adapt to his
students’ life, understood his students’ life’s problems and overcame it. At the end of the
story, he managed to control his classroom and his students achieved outstanding academic
performances.

2.0 Strategies used to develop positive teacher-student relationship

One of the strategies used by Mr. Ron Clark to develop positive teacher-student
relationship is greeting. He always greeted his students whenever he entered the classroom.
This strategy is very effective to develop positive relationships with the students as teacher
who always greets their students is considered friendly. Students are feeling more
welcoming when the teachers always greet them as it is deemed as a friendly action to
them. According to Varga (2017), teachers who are friendly and positive develop better
relationships with their students. This demonstrates that one of the keys to develop positive
teacher- student relationship is relying on the teachers’ friendliness attitude.

Furthermore, another strategy used by him is having appointment with the students’
parents before teaching them. He did this to understand students’ family background. He
also wanted collaboration from their parents like support to aid in their students’ studies. This
is crucial to prevent misunderstandings. Example, when the teachers know the students
experienced family abuse, instead of insulting them, teachers understand the root of the
discipline problems caused by the students. Based on this example, it can be related to
Dreikurs’ logical consequences model (1968), where the causes of students’ misbehaviors in
the classroom is to gain attention. Teachers’ understanding towards students’ root of
discipline problem enable them to find solution in overcoming students’ personal problems. It
is more challenging for teachers to form positive and supportive relationships with
problematic students (Varga, 2017). However, it is still possible for students to form positive
relationship with teachers if the teachers are caring, supportive them in solving their personal
issues.

3.0 Classroom dynamic techniques used to capture students heart

One of the classroom dynamic techniques that he used to capture students’ heart is
drinking milk deal. The deal is that if the students are quiet and paying attention to him while
he is teaching, he will drink a box of chocolate milk every fifteen seconds. This gives
students the opportunity to see him puking out chocolate milk. The students found this deal
very fascinating and fun. Students love challenges and deals like this. This is really effective
in teaching students as it really excites them to learn new knowledge. This is not just
hooking students’ attention but also capturing their heart. Jason is also assigned by the
teacher to hit the jar with a stick to indicate that 15 seconds has passed. This also
encourages students’ participation in the Teaching and Learning (T&L) session. The
incorporation of fun in the lessons can motivate students to engage in the T&L session
(Dorothy, 2014). The method used by Mr. Ron Clark is a big success as he taught the
students regarding grammar knowledge in a more entertaining and fun way.

Moreover, another technique used by the teacher is humor. During the last part of the
drinking milk challenge, Mr. Ron Clark was about to puke out, the students thought that he
was really going to puke out, but it was just jokes. This made the students laughed out loud.
Although it was just a simple act of humor but it affected students’ perception towards the
teacher. They considered Mr. Ron Clark as someone who is not just hardworking, fun but
also funny. Humor sense is indeed one of the personalities that teachers must possess in
order to capture students’ heart. Students love lessons that contained various elements and
one of it is humor. Humor and fun have a major impact towards us as human beings
(Dorothy, 2014). This claimed that human nature of admiring humors is biological and wired
neurologically to our brain.

Other than that, Mr. Ron Clark also involved himself with the students’ lives. He visited
each students’ home to understand thoroughly the students’ actual situation. For instance,
Shamieka, she is 12 years old but taking care of three kids of her own. Her mother worked
hard to sustain their lives. It is really difficult for Shamieka to focus fully on her studies as she
carries the responsibility of not just as a student but mother as well. The teacher took the
initiative to go to her house just to cook dinner for her family so that she can focus on making
corrections on her English homework. He was caring to Shamieka, although her mom
reported him for intruding the house to the principal, he managed to convince her mom to
give cooperation to him for the sake of Shamieka’s studies and future. He told her mom that
Shamieka has potentials which opened her mom’s eyes and believed in his words. The
exam’s result is the evidence of Mr. Clark’s words to her mom. Shamieka scored the best
scores for English and Math. These are the reason why Shamieka trusts Mr. Clark because
of his undivided commitment, sacrifices and time that captured her heart.

4.0 Problem and solution towards overcoming students discipline problem in

Malaysia

One of the therapies that is applied by Mr. Clark is counselling. Based on New Straits
Times news, there is an increased of domestic violence cases due to the MCO. This might
somehow affect students’ psychology if their parents are abusive and harm them. Example,
like in the movie, Tay Shawn expressed aggression attitude towards Julio. He had a fight
with Julio and punched him really hard. This is a form of aggression. Mr. Clark conducted a
personal counselling with Tay Shawn to remind him that he has potentials too. He taught
Tay Shawn mathematics. At the end of the story, he was awarded the best in arts. This
counselling can be proved efficient in handling aggressive or violent students. Bernard
(2015), stated that meaningful counselling can undoubtedly prevent discipline problems in
school life. It also influences students’ discipline in a positive way. This shows that
counselling can be implemented to solve discipline problems even aggression etc.
Counselling helps a teacher to understand students’ life better. The more they understand,
the closer they are between teacher and student. This also builds students’ trust towards the
teacher. Thus this create positive relationship between teacher and students.

5.0 Role of a teacher in managing a conducive learning environment

Mr. Clark created a conducive learning environment by changing the wall color of the
classroom, filled up the classroom with rules. He painted the classroom to produce a fresh
and new feeling towards the students. Students love something that is new and fresh. The
rules are crucial to students to remind them all the time about the rules set up by Mr. Clark.
These changes helped to create a conducive learning environment. Lynch (2016), stated the
importance of getting students cooperation in creating conducive learning environment. Mr.
Clark set up rules and set up consequences of breaking the rules so that students will be
cooperating in following the classroom rules. The rules set up by Mr. Clark are we are family,
we respect each other etc and the punishments of violating the rules such as the name will
go on board.

6.0 Conclusion

To conclude, classroom management is very vital to determine the students’ academic

achievement and also to form positive disciplines within the students. There are various
disciplines problems that occurred daily but it can be overcame with successful classroom
management.
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