Working With Young Learners

This was the third week and the third lesson for this course. This time, Pn. Foziah had used Constructivist approach to teach my class, whereby we were told to construct our own learning with the guidance of lecturer as a facilitator. Well, today’s lesson started with a short introduction by our beloved lecturer. After that, we were asked to form into seven groups, whereby each group was given a subtopic, based on the main topic of ‘Working with Young Learners’. This was introduced to my class because we would be future-teachers, and sooner or later, we would have to deal with children in classroom. So, this topic was actually a preparation given by Pn. Foziah to build our foundation. Hence, every lesson in this course was really vital in shaping our lives in becoming good, creative and innovative teachers in future.

Thus, the task for today was to discuss the topic given, explain explain it in a powerpoint show and then present the knowledge that we knew to the class. Each group was given one hour to do the task and members were each assigned with different roles. For example, for my group, my leader had assigned three of my friends to find the information on the internet after our discussion, while one would type out the powerpoint slides and another became the helper of the typer and lastly, the leader guided and controlled the situation to make sure that everything was organized and in their place.

Through this type of group works, I felt that I could learn better. During the discussion with my member about the subtopic, ‘1.3: Children’s Capacity in Indirect Learning’, I could feel the bondage between my members and I while we were doing our work. I learnt that in a group discussion, team work and cooperation were very important. With good team work, we were able to produce a good piece of presentation. This of course came with a rule, whereby no member should be a passenger as it would delay the progress of work. But this did not happen in my group as everyone was eager to participate and excited in making the slides presentation a successful one.

Through my presentation, I had learnt that there were many methods in conducting indirect learning. My group had presented this subtopic based on 3 questions, which were ‘Why children need to have indirect learning?’, ‘What are the types of indirect learning activities?’ and lastly, ‘How children indulge into indirect learning?’. Based on these questions, we came to know that children love and learn better through guessing game like Charade, Hangman, Blind Game and also not to forget, language games like Broken telephone, Scrabble, Crossword Puzzles and many more exciting activities. As a future teacher, I had to know the existence of indirect learning so as to be able to promote students’ learning and also to bring them into independent learning through discussion and full involvement in throughout the activities or lessons.

Today I had learnt not only from my group but as well on other group’s presentation. Through presentations, I was able to absorb more information into my brain through the main points being pointed out by my friends from other groups. Besides that, we had feedbacks from the listener on how well we did our part. Their feedbacks showed on how well they had grasped on what we had been presenting.

Hence, all in all, this lesson was a meaningful one as it taught me things that I should have known as a future teacher. The feedbacks given also helped me to improve on my presentation and skills in becoming a good, systematic leader in future. So, I am here looking forward to the next class. That was all for today.

Introduction of the Course

Today’s lesson gave me an introduction on what this course was all about. With a fresh mind, I learnt that in order to become a good teacher, I needed to be resourceful in not only finding information online but also learning to search for exciting learning materials for my future lesson. Through this lesson, I gained an insight on the importance of being a media-saturated person by always keeping myself updated with the latest information and ideas.

The purpose of this course was to teach me on how to get resources from the media and the application of different types of software to obtain materials for teaching and learning in pupils’ classroom. Besides, in this lesson, I was required to have a blog, which helped me to keep a list of my own reflections and also keep a public view to others on what I have been doing and achieved throughout this course.

I personally believed that this was indeed a great idea as I believed that the education world today needed to be collaborated with the advancement of technology. So, in order to equip myself, firstly Pn. Foziah taught my class on touch typing. Have you heard about it? Well, it was my first time to hear about touch typing. So, you could imagine how ‘out-dated’ I was. It was actually learning how to type using the keyboard, by placing the fingers at the correct keys.

Then, I also needed to have the correct sitting posture in order to type well.


Well, it was a good start for me as after all the years, now I realized that I was typing the wrong way. So, I would like to give a big applause to Pn. Foziah. Then, I was again introduced to Window Sky Drive. Well, not to mention of the knowledge that I had, it was again a new thing to me. So, particularly, in this lesson, I had learnt many things. So, I believed that this course would be able to help me to become a techno-savvy future teacher.

Moreover, Pn. Foziah had also briefed my class on the five modules that we would be doing this semester. The five modules were internet and computing skill, photo editing, audio editing, video editing and lastly software for ELT (English language teaching). Pn Foziah mentioned that it would be useful to equip myself well with this course as it could help me in my future teaching and lesson planning. She said that we should not only view ourselves as normal teachers but must always update ourselves and have the initiative to go into higher learning like Master or PHD in order to have more knowledge in life.

All in all, it was indeed an eye-opener for me as this course could help me to become a better, globalised teacher in future. Today’s lesson had indeed ignited a passion in me to explore more about this course.

First Day of Class

Today was the first week and the first day of my ‘Using and Developing Resources in Primary Classroom’ course. Well, by looking at the title of the course had already brightened my curiosity on what this course might bring. As this was the first day in class, the anxious feeling came to my nerves even before the lecture started. Well, it was not because I was scared but it was because I was excited on what the lesson may bring me. The lecturer for this course was Puan Foziah. I was greeted by her smile and warmth when she first spoke. She was indeed a person of the intelligence as this course was not an easy course. It involved using the modern technology of this globalization era to find and search for the best resources and materials for school teaching and learning.

Well, first day in class was not much a burden as I was not given any homework except three tasks that needed to be completed during the weekend. The three tasks were :

1) Create a blog





2) Get a 8gb pendrive





3) Install Photoshop CS3 in laptop




One last thing was that I was told to think about my own expectations for this course. After much thinking, my expectations for this course were to learn as much knowledge as I could so that I could be a techno-savvy future teacher and I also hoped that I would be able to master the use of technology that was available and be able to be creative and innovative in searching and creating new resources for my teaching materials in future.