History
The
focus of this week’s tutorials was to provide relevant feedback to students on
how to improve their skills in writing essay paragraphs, as well as to teach
them how to write introductions and conclusions. Since essay writing
constitutes the bread-and-butter of History, I found it necessary to place a
strong emphasis in this area, having already devoted four tutorial sessions for
this purpose. While students demonstrated their ability to construct the basic
essay structure, it was clear that they still needed much hands-on practice in
order to improve. As such, students are required to sit for their first essay
test in Southeast Asian history next week to motivate them to consolidate and
synthesise what they have learnt thus far. This will serve as a timely
assessment of the extent to which they have gleaned useful learning points from
my lessons and, at the same time, provide critical feedback for the efficacy of
my teaching pedagogies to date.
Project Work
For
this week’s PW lessons, the focus was on guiding students in refining their
research methodology as well as teach them the importance of research
etiquette. Students were taught key pointers about the conduct of interviews,
such as identifying the appropriate candidates and also the need to come up
with well-thought and well-crafted questions. Students were also reminded of
the importance of the pre-interview preparation, which included doing a
thorough background research on their interviewees and taking relevant safety
precautions in the process of conducting the actual interviews. Ultimately,
students had to comprehend the need for good impression management and its
applicability to their future lives as working adults.
Ten-Pin Bowling
This
was my second observation of the ten-pin bowling CCA and it proved to be as
uneventful as last week. Basically, the basic administrative work of the
teacher-in-charge was clear cut, which would make the job of running this CCA a relatively smooth and hassle-free process.
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