Reflection

This class 4 Berlian is the best class in standard 4. Most of the pupils come from families
where their parents speak English. Their command of English Language is good, that is why I had
prepared a lot of activities for this class.
Listening is a skill which needs to be practised, it is not a theory. A lot of listening practical
activities need to be done to harness this skill and to be more effective. I believe in the coming
KSSR year 6 government exam, this listening component will be exercised. This class excel in
everything I give them to do.
Strength
There were lots of encouraging comments that I received from the students on this lesson.
One of the comments that I received is the way I connected the games with listening. The pupils
enjoyed the Think-Pair-Share and Think Pair- Square game. The students seems to like this sort
of group work. Based from what my lecturer use to remind us, group work is when each of the
group members contributes something (synergize). Group work does not mean that merely having
the pupils to work in group, but group work is something which requires every members of the
group to take part and role in the group. As a teacher, we should therefore assign each member in
the group to take a role on doing something. That is why the best group work is pair work. I
believe this is because when we ask the pupils to work in pair, the role of the pair in completing the
task is much more maximized as compared to the group work. Besides that, pair work also may
avoid much noise as compared to group work.
Weakness
During the set induction stage, I failed to organize my time wisely because instead of
printing the stickers onto a sticker sheet, I had printed on to a A4 paper and peeling the double
sided tape had caused many of the stickers to tear. This resulted in the allocation of time exceeded.
I learnt that in order to be an effective teacher, I must know how to manage and organize my time
wisely and use effective shortcut materials.
Apart from that, I should gave recorded the audio tape with my own voice, instead, it was a
recorded voice by a foreigner which complicated the listening to my students. The main reason
why it is more beneficial is because the pupils will understand better. An audio tape is useful in the
sense that we can repeat the audio for as many times as we want. I find that is will be much helpful
for the low ability pupils as they might need more listening practice as compared to intermediate
pupils.

Improvements that can be made

1. The first suggestion is finding a unique approach to the lesson. A need to try and
establish the lesson that will capture the students' attention and hold it while they learn
the necessary skills. Also a need of often looking for new ways to teach the same old
lessons by inventing own innovative ideas, getting ideas from fellow teachers, and
finding great lesson plans on the Internet.


2. The second suggestion is planning the activities for each lesson using scaffolding. This
subject , on scaffolding, was taught in the previous semester 4. The need to tap into the
students' existing knowledge, extend it so that it relates to new knowledge, and keep
building in this way. Students should always be able to see the connections between:
what they already know what they are learning and what they are going
to learn.


3. The third suggestion is a little bit more difficult. The changing composition of Malaysian
classrooms requires teachers to find materials that reflect the diversity of the Malaysian
population. Whether teaching in the primary or secondary finding sources for students to
listen and examples for them to hear are very difficult.


4. And finally KISS it, Keep it Short and Sweet. Lesson plans with objectives that are
achieved and activities that stay with the pupil for life is what every teacher hopes to
achieve We can have all the knowledge and technology but if the lesson had not been
affective, how sad the day would have been.
Evaluation
I use a three-point rubric to evaluate students' work during this lesson which I found on
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/
In the Set Induction, which was 10 minutes I awarded 2 points.
In the Pre Listening stage, which was 10 minutes, 3 points.
The While Listening stage, which was 15 minutes 3 points.
The Post-Listening stage which was 15 minutes 2 points and
The Closure, 10 minutes 3 points. Total points 13 out of 15.
In all these stages I see a smooth flow of teaching with the students. All the students manage
to complete all the stages of the activities, including stage 4, post-listening, which I was not
too sure of implementing it, but it went well.


Rubric from http://www.discoveryeducation.com/

Three points: Students were highly engaged in class and group discussions; enthusiastically
participated in the scavenger hunt; followed the rules of the scavenger hunt without needing
teacher guidance or supervision; and demonstrated a clear understanding of the importance of
having good speaking and listening skills.
Two points: Students generally engaged in class and group discussions; participated in the
scavenger hunt; followed the rules of the scavenger hunt with little teacher supervision or
guidance; and demonstrated a basic understanding of the importance of having good speaking
and listening skills.
One point: Students participated minimally in class and group discussions; were unable to
participate in the scavenger hunt without constant teacher supervision or refused to
participate in the scavenger hunt; and were unable to demonstrate a basic understanding of
the importance of having good speaking and listening skills.