Assalamualaikum.
This reflection is on our first graded task for this course :)
Our first graded course required us
to plan a teaching lesson which incorporates the use of computer. We had to
make a lesson plan and choose any website or software to be used in teaching the language skill that we
had been assigned. Our group was the lucky one as we had been assigned the
language skill of writing. Yeaayy!!
There are many things that we have
learned from this task. The most
important thing that we learn is on how to create a lesson plan. Creating a
lesson is a new experience for all of our group members and even for majority
of our classmates. At first, we had no idea on how to create a lesson plan.
However, we managed to overcome the problem by having consultations with our
beloved lecturer, Dr. Rozina :)
We drafted our first lesson plan
and showed it to Dr. Rozina. We also asked Dr. Rozina's
opinion on the relevance between the activities that we planned and level of
students we decided to focus on. There were many things that we needed to be
revised in the lesson plan. We learned that these three elements are among the
crucial things to be considered in creating a lesson plan:
•Level
of students
•Time
•Language
focus
Our had our final decision on the
level of students in which we decided to choose Form 5 students as our target
group. Our language focus are: Adjectives, simple present tense, simple future
tense, modal verbs, hypothetical sentences, conditional clauses and if-clauses.
The website that we used for our teaching
session is websta.me. It is a website version of Instagram which is an
application that hosts social networking through short videos and photos. We
decided to use this website because of its intriguing characteristic. As our
topic is “My Dream Vacation”,
the website provides suitable, easy access data and first hand experience point
of view for the students to write about their dream vacation.
Other than creating the lesson plan, we
also had to present and demonstrate on how to use the website in our classroom.
Surprisingly, a lot of questions were being thrown to us. Mostly, our
classmates asked about the concern of large photo and video database that might
contain inappropriate content for our intended students. However, since we
explained that we will filter the hashtags and search keywords for the website,
our classmates understood the precaution that we will take. We got positive
responses from our lecturer and classmates as our the website that wanted to
use is up-to-date and new.
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