Thursday, March 25, 2010
Reflection on the Simulated Teaching
Saturday, March 20, 2010
"Its Show Time!!" -Maths Simulated Teaching-
As for the first group, they taught about '2D Shapes'-square,triangle,circle, rectangle.Their activities were simply engaging and enthralling especially their shape song-This song indeed trigger a sense of exicetement and fun as well as to remember the names of the 2Dshapes easily.In fact, their creative idea of using plasticines to get the pupils to mould the shapes that they have learnt was indeed effective and practical in which pupils are offered an hands on learning practice to apply what they have learnt regarding 2D shapes through an appealing approach.
Overall, all three simulated teaching were well conducted by each groups and unique in their own ways as well as effective and pertinent to their intended maths topics to be taught.Congrats to all 3 groups.We indeed learnt a lot and had a momentous experience!
Monday, March 8, 2010
Action Research ?? Wondering what is it?
According to Wikipedia, action research is a reflective process of progressive problem solving who led by individuals working with others in teams or as part of a "community of practice" to improve the way they address issues and solve problems in certain aspects. Action research can also be carry out by larger organizations or institutions, assisted or guided by professional researchers, with the aim of improving their strategies, practices, and knowledge of the environments within which they practice. As designers and stakeholders, researchers work with others to propose a new option of action to help their community or country to improve its work practices as being said by Center for Collaborative Action Research.
Kurt Lewin who became a professor at MIT, first introduced the term “action research” in about 1944. Furthermore, in his 1946 paper “Action Research and Minority Problems” he portrayed action research as “a comparative research on the conditions and effects of various forms of social action and research leading to social action” that uses “a spiral of steps, each of which is composed of a circle of planning, action and fact-finding about the result of the action”.
Furthermore, according to (Reason & Bradbury, 2001) action research is an interactive investigation process that balances problem solving actions implemented in a collaborative context with data-driven collaborative analysis or research to understand the underlying causes enabling future predictions about personal and organizational change. After six decades of action research development, many methodologies have evolved that adjust the balance to focus more on the actions taken or more on the research that results from the reflective understanding of the actions.
Our group had been given a task to do an action research about Mathematical problems which we do not decide it yet. Still figured out what topic that our group want to discuss about that can make an interesting Mathematics action research. We hope that everyone will enjoy our topic when we will present it in front of the class and suited with the problems that faced by the teachers in the school. Good luck to my group...=)
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Yahoo..another new input-"Lesson Plan!"
A lesson plan is truly an important asset for a teacher as it allows the teacher to gauge the lesson the teacher is planning for the targeted learners as well as is able to fine tune the lesson as the teacher plans on.
So, just like a Chef needs the best and apt ingredients for his or her own cooking,
a teacher also needs the necessary "ingredients".
Hence, to learn to be the BEST, one must learn from the BEST!
This is a very good model lesson plan as it consists of 7 important elements for a good lesson plan!
Therefore, this is a very good guide for us to base upon when we write our Mathematics Lesson Plan.
Nevertheless, this Madeline Hunter's "7 Step Lesson Plan" is very vital and popular choice for writing a GOOD lesson plan.
The "7 Step Lesson Plan" consist of
For further readings you can refer to The Madeline Hunter Elements of Effective Instruction
We have learnt a lot and definitely today's lesson help us a lot in planning and writing out our own lesson plan!