I have not been writing my reflections for quite a while, sigh! I'm quite busy with so many administrative stuff- especially the asset verification matter! Anyway, here are some of the things I'd like to write down here for me to reflect...
1) Background of study: This semester I tried a different approach to teaching Background of Study. I asked the students (in their respective teams) to choose a picture from the Internet. Then I asked them to describe and write down what they see. It is interesting to see the different pictures the students chose. One particularly interesting picture was 'a graph on eight high rise buildings in the world', and this picture was chosen by an all male team :) . That seems to illustrate that a man is inclined to choose 'facts & figures' because all other teams with both genders or only female students chose pictures related to for example poverty, birds and facebook logo. Anyway, when asked to describe the picture, interestingly, the rep from each team began with what they saw in the center of the picture! FYI my intention was for them to start describing the picture they chose from the background, then narrow the description towards the center of the picture, and finally focus the description to the center of the picture-- to illustrate how the background of study should be written-- from general, to middle to the focus! Well, when the students responded the other way round, then I can see why the students I taught in the previous semester could not really understand clearly the concept of the background of the study. So, I explained to the students how to approach the writing of the background of the study. At the end I think most of the students could understand the concept-- phew that is a relief!
2) APA style: In the previous teaching assessment, a couple of students suggested that I should give more exercises on the APA style, and so I did last week for the students I'm teaching this semester. I introduced the APA style in class and asked the students to do some homework. We discussed the answers in the next class meeting. It was surprising to see that they actually got it! Well, there was one question which I did not expect the students to get it because I waited for the answer for approx 3-5 minutes, and I announced that at a countdown of 5 seconds, whoever could answer, would be given RM50! And surprise surprise, Afifa got it!!! OMG! Good on you girl! So I owe her RM50 until the end of the semester hahahahah. Ok I think I should not bet in class hahahah... but it was fun! Anyway I will find more exercises for the coming semester-- if I were assigned again!
3) On March 6, I started to introduce the concept of Literature review to the students. Looking at their faces, I know they did not quite get it. That's alright students, I will find ways to make it clearer to you in our next class, i.e. tomorrow ok!
1) Background of study: This semester I tried a different approach to teaching Background of Study. I asked the students (in their respective teams) to choose a picture from the Internet. Then I asked them to describe and write down what they see. It is interesting to see the different pictures the students chose. One particularly interesting picture was 'a graph on eight high rise buildings in the world', and this picture was chosen by an all male team :) . That seems to illustrate that a man is inclined to choose 'facts & figures' because all other teams with both genders or only female students chose pictures related to for example poverty, birds and facebook logo. Anyway, when asked to describe the picture, interestingly, the rep from each team began with what they saw in the center of the picture! FYI my intention was for them to start describing the picture they chose from the background, then narrow the description towards the center of the picture, and finally focus the description to the center of the picture-- to illustrate how the background of study should be written-- from general, to middle to the focus! Well, when the students responded the other way round, then I can see why the students I taught in the previous semester could not really understand clearly the concept of the background of the study. So, I explained to the students how to approach the writing of the background of the study. At the end I think most of the students could understand the concept-- phew that is a relief!
2) APA style: In the previous teaching assessment, a couple of students suggested that I should give more exercises on the APA style, and so I did last week for the students I'm teaching this semester. I introduced the APA style in class and asked the students to do some homework. We discussed the answers in the next class meeting. It was surprising to see that they actually got it! Well, there was one question which I did not expect the students to get it because I waited for the answer for approx 3-5 minutes, and I announced that at a countdown of 5 seconds, whoever could answer, would be given RM50! And surprise surprise, Afifa got it!!! OMG! Good on you girl! So I owe her RM50 until the end of the semester hahahahah. Ok I think I should not bet in class hahahah... but it was fun! Anyway I will find more exercises for the coming semester-- if I were assigned again!
3) On March 6, I started to introduce the concept of Literature review to the students. Looking at their faces, I know they did not quite get it. That's alright students, I will find ways to make it clearer to you in our next class, i.e. tomorrow ok!