REFLECTIVE JOURNAL

Week 4 (22th -26th February 2016)

On this week, I could enter classes for teaching and learning only twice. This is
because my school was conducting an event which was cross-country. A rehearsal for
the event took 2 days in order for the children to get used with the ways of the cross
country. The rehearsal dragged time until it clashes with the English lesson. Thus, the
lesson was postponed.
Other than that, I conducted a preliminary survey for my action research. During
my English lesson, I provided the pupils with a worksheet about vocabulary. I wanted to
test the pupils vocabulary based on the Year 2 syllabus. The test was guided as the
answers were provided. Furthermore, the pupils just need to match the picture with the
words. There was no sentence structure in the worksheet as the pupils are low
proficiency.
During teaching and learning process in the classroom, I find out the pupils were
really guided. When I was teaching reading and asked the pupils to speak
independently, all pupils cannot produce any words. But, when I asked the pupils to
rearrange words into sentences, the pupils can read well. Besides, they learn the
sentence structure and could speak independently after being drilled repeatedly.
In term of discipline, I cannot control the class sometimes. My approach did not
suit the pupils as there are 3 problematic pupils. Those pupils are always being
mentioned by teachers for me to alert during the lesson. I cannot be too friendly as the
pupils will get naughty. But, if I am too serious I could not enjoy teaching the pupils. I am
improving myself to be a better teacher tomorrow than today.
In a nutshell, classroom management is very crucial and need to be controlled
well. The lesson should be focus on activities such as games to arouse the pupils
interest. I am trying to create a game in every lesson. While playing, the pupils could
gather knowledge without they know that they have learn something.