INSTITUT PENDIDIKAN GURU MALAYSIA KAMPUS BATU LINTANG KUCHING, SARAWAK

PROGRAM PENSISWAZAHAN GURU AMBILAN JUN 2011

SUBJECT: MANAGING THE PRIMARY ESL CLASSROOM ( TSL3109 ) PART A TASK 3 : Individual Reflection ( INDIVIDUAL ) PREPARED BY : NORLIZZA BINTI ISMAIL IC NO MATRICS NO GROUP DATE SUBMITT : : : : 770302135906 201106255 PPG TESL 2 SEMESTER 5 2013 24 AUGUST 2013

PREPARED FOR : LECTURER MR TOH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT INSTITUT PERGURUAN MALAYSIA KAMPUS BATU LINTANG

Part A : Reflection

Task 3 : Individual Reflection

Based on this course and the task I have done, there are many things and new knowledge that I gained and learnt in order to improve and enhance myself to be a goo teacher towards the new era of education. Firstly, through this course and the task given, I have learnt about many theories that can be apply during the teaching and learning process or in my own daily life activities. The theories are Democratic Teaching by Rudolf Dreikurf, Theories of Instructional Management by Jacob Kounin, Theories of Congruent Communication by HaimGinott, Building the Foundation by Skinner, William Glasser, Grodon and Theories of Assertive Tactics by Lee and Marlene Canter. By learningabout all these theories, I have learnt on how to manage the classroom effectively in order to promote a conducive classroom environment that deal for the teaching and learning process to occur. Besides, I also realized that the roles of the teachers nowadays become more challenging. It is not talking about the teachers roles in the classroom but also to produce the young generations of the country to become more responsibility and to mould the individuals with good values. Meanwhile, finishing the task in this course teach me,how difficult for me to complete the task together with other commitments and I learnt that teaching also is not an easy task. There are a lots of distractions and challenges that waiting for me in the future as a new era teacher. In addition, through this course, I learnt many difference approaches and strategies in managing the classroom and how teacher can handle the misbehavior pupils in the classroom. For example, based on the Theory of Instructional Management by Jacob Kounin, I have learnt that many difference strategies such as withitness, ripple effect,group focus, satiation, overlapping and effective transitions. These approaches and strategies can be applied during my own teaching and learning activities. Furthermore, the theory itself highlights more on teachers roles and responsibilities. Through this course, I also realized that I have learnt so many types of misbehaviours that can or ever occur in my previous lesson. As a teacher, I need to be wellprepared by knowing my pupils backgrounds and also their interest. It can be done by giving them appropriate solutions to correct their misbehaviours. Moreover, I also learnt the skill on how to control the situations by looking into the main causes and effects of their misbehaviours. I have learnt that in promoting a good classroom management for teaching and learning to take place, as a teacher, I need to consider the physical and socioemotional aspects in the classroom. Teacher should take pupils individual differences as each pupil 2

are differs from one another. Teacher need to fulfill all their needs in the classroom. Thus,the teaching and learning session can take place smoothly and meaningful. And for that I would like to suggest some ideas to improve this course. The first that glance through my mind is to conduct peer-teaching session among the teacher in the school just to share some ideas from other teacher on how they apply the theories into their teaching and learning session. Hence, the teacher can understand how each of the strategies and the approaches works in their own lesson. Besides, teacher also can conduct a trip to other nearby school to observe the school environment and how the teachers handle and manage their classroom with the difference strategies used. This will helps the teacher to see beyond their circle about the new ideas of teaching the new generation of her pupils and how the theories are applied in real life situation. Moreover, it helps the teacher to be more prepared in any situation occur. As a conclusion, there are many new knowledge and experiences that I have learnt and gained through this course. It is very beneficial for me as the teacher and I will practices the theories and knowledge learnt during my teaching in the future. I believe that by creating a cohesive, respectful and positive learning environment for the pupils, teacher will be able to better prepare her or his pupils for life after primary, secondary schooling and after graduated from university.