Thursday, November 13, 2008

Online discussion

Dear everyone,

Thank you for participating in this Online Continuing Professional Development project. We appreciate your participation and commitment. We assure you that this blog is private, therefore nobody from 'outside' the group will be allowed to view the entries in this site. So, please do not hesitate to share your views here.Now, please look at the questions below and answer them as best as you can.


Task 1

1. Describe one of your lessons that went very well. For this lesson, explain what you were teaching, how you were teaching and how you knew it went well. In your description of your lesson consider the following:

a. Where did your ideas for this lesson come from?

b. How was this different from other lessons?

c. What do you think made the lesson successful?

d. Did you learn anything from the experience?

e. If you want to improve this lesson how would you do it?

f. Have you shared your experience with anyone else?



Task 2

All teachers experience challenges. Could you describe one that was very challenging. Where did your ideas for this lesson come from?

a. Where did your ideas for this lesson come from?

b. How was this different from other lessons?

c. What do you think made the lesson challenging?

d. Did you learn anything from the experience?

e If you want to improve this lesson how would you do it?

f. Have you shared your experience with anyone else?


Now read the other entries posted by your online community and discuss them.You might consider what you have learnt from reading each others’ entries.


Deadline for submission of blog entry: 8 December 2008

Discussion from 9 December 2008 until 31 December 2008

12 comments:

miss anniza said...

hi, i'm annyza

liza said...

hai, i'm liza..

Ilani said...

Quite excited with the idea of blogging since this is my first time blogging so any help?

Evelyn Soon said...

Hi, I am Evelyn from SMK(P)Sri Aman. I am a physics teacher, I have been teaching Physics since 1997. I am looking forward to get to know all of you, to share our experience and problems.

liza said...

hopefully i can learn fast..i'm so interested with this vip session..

hayati said...

hi..i'm hayati from Sekolah Sultan Alam Shah..hopefully this blog will give me so many advantages and good experiences..

Ilani said...

Forgot to introduce myself just now. Hi I'm Ilani Ibrahim from SMK(P) Sri Aman,Petaling Jaya,Selangor teaching chemistry and additional maths ever since l started teaching in 1979,a bit late to start blogging right? Anyway need help from all of you about blogging

liza said...

i'm liza from alam shah.

pramela said...

Hi, I am Pramela. I hope this blogging
session will be a successful journey .....

nani said...

hi.. i'm hasnani from SMK Victoria, KL.. I'm a biology teacher and have been teaching since 1998. I am looking forward to get to know all of you, hopefully this project make us close to each others, share the experience etc

miss anniza said...

i'm annyza from smk taman tun dr. ismail.
i'm teaching lower form.....

Ilani said...

Task 1
"Manufactured Substance in industry" is the last topic in form four Chemistry syllabus. By that time students have enough of doing experiments and taking notes.Students wanted something different.I decided to exchange role where students got into groups of four and presented me with powerpoint while l sat at the back and listened. They came out with colourful, well prepared powerpoint presentation and took pride in explaining their presentation.In fact one of the students brought a digital camera to video taped their presentation.There were so much fun as the students were free to question the group that did the presentation.After the presentation i replayed the video for students to see them in action.I believe that at times we must break monotony and let the students show their talent

Task 2
Teaching chemistry to rural students back in the nineties was a real challenge to me because most students were not interested to come to school.It was a chore and chemistry seemed alien to them. So what i did then was to focus on being friendly and most of the time end up telling them stories instead of chemistry. As i gained their trust and confidence i mastered the subject, demonstrated experiments, let them do the experiments again exactly as what i did. At first they were playful but eventually with patience and a lot of advice and coaching students began to see chemistry as a subject that they can excelled.That took me about half a year to realised but it was worth it.Well i think we must also have that human touch in order to attract our students.

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