Friday, July 25, 2008

Week 10: In this week, I’m having discussion with my class about the English paper. We discussed the paper one and paper two. It was a shocking as I discovered that mostly my students were very lack in vocabulary and frequent spelling errors occurred not to one person but to almost half of them. They often left the letter ‘Y’ in the ‘THEY’ word and mispelled some the words like ‘FRIEND’, ‘EXTREME’, and ‘EXCURSION’ even though the words are actually have been mentioned in the class and printed in the examination questions. I highlighted the summary section as this section is considered as the easiest to score. Besides, I explained to them (individually) on how I gave marks to their essays. So far, the students were satisfied with the marks that I gave although some of them were begging to me for some extra marks. Before I gave the final marks to them, I met Puan Siti Azibanul and inquired her about my marking. Lucky that Puan Siti Azibanul gave a fine comment; fair and considerable marks. My review on the students essays is: 1)They need to read a lot and double check the spelling with the assistance of dictionary. 2)Double check the spellings every after finish answering the essay or summary. Spelling is considered as the essential part of the language and it will be tested and given marks. This week, I’ll be monitored by my supervisor Puan Nirmala Devi and I needed to prepare for it. On that day, I planned to teach them chapter 11: Looking ahead, a chapter about the famous idol Dr.M Jegathesan. I admitted that I didn’t prepare very well as I’ve promised with my students to discuss the English paper one. What is more, my students were making noise, and unexpectedly one of the students screamed out loud as her friends scared her with the little spider. I was like, ‘what a mess’. For the whole double periods I tried to carry on my teaching although the students were not sporting. Maybe it was my mistake as I never told them that the lecturer will going to come and observe me. I just tried to make the class’ atmosphere looked ‘natural’ and the students didn’t have to pretend innocent. Anyway, I still have one observation by next week and that is the only chance for me to get a better verdict. I need to make some corrections and modifications on my lesson plan and teaching skills for the next observation.

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