Friday, 20 April 2012

WEEK EIGHT REFLECTIONS (16/4/2012 – 20/4/2012)


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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