HARI KEEMPAT

On fourth day, we have learned about multiple intelligences learning style. Different strokes for different folks. There are eight kinds of intelligences that a teacher should know. There are:

Linguistic Intelligences
Spatial Intelligences
Bodily-kinaesthetic Intelligences
Interpersonal Intelligences
Intrapersonal Intelligences
Logical Mathematic Intelligences
Musical Intelligences
Naturalist Intelligences

Let me explain.

Linguistic Intelligences

‘Linguistic intelligences’ is a type of intelligence of student style in their learning process. How are their smart in Linguistic? Most of students in this intelligence category are the students who loved language arts such as poem, tongue-twister activities. It all related to words and languages.

Spatial Intelligences

This type of intelligences can be defined as the ability to visualize objects in different angles, space, face and scenes. They loved when it comes to colors and related to arts activities. They tend to able to estimate distance and judge space.

Bodily Kinaesthetic

Interpersonal Intelligences

Intrapersonal Intelligences

Logical Mathematics Intelligences

Musical Intelligences

Naturalist Intelligences

Class continued at 2 pm. It’s a micro-teaching session. I loved the activities since we have to act as pupils. It’s quite a happening session and havoc sometimes but it runs smoothly with the objective was greatly achieved. There are another 2 groups left as the time unavailable for them to take place and were postponed to tomorrow afternoon.

HARI KETIGA

On the third day, I have learned about attentive listening to an interview’s conversation. Given there is a vacancy in our school. We have been asked to write information we heard based on the professional profile elements stated in the interviewee’s form.

We have asked to discuss and compare the information gained in our group so that all the informations are exactly same. Next, we have to move in pairs with other groups, which also have had their own candidate they heard in their group.

We discussed and compared to get the best candidate with most accurate qualifications to be hired. I argued and sometimes agreed with my partner explanations about his/her candidate.

We came out on one decision of who are the best to fill the vacancy. Later then we were asked to present it.

The objective of this activity is to listen attentively and gauge our understanding of the conversation and also to implement the speaking skills in us.

In the evening, it’s a language analysis in term of grammar in context.

Present simple tense
Present perfect tense
Past simple tense
Past perfect tense
Present continuous tense
Past continuous tense
Present perfect continuous tense
Past perfect continuous tense

We also have been taught about stative and active verb. Statements divided into stative and active. There are rules to bear when building a sentence. First, we should know the verbs either it is stative or active or maybe both. Later I’ll show you the list and few examples of stative and active verbs.

HARI KEDUA

I drove from Pekan around 6.20 am and arrived at BTPN Pahang an hour later. Today’s lesson quite interesting. We were given a piece of blank paper and write our name in the middle. She then asked to pass the paper to the person next on our right hand side 3 times in a row.

As we got other’s paper, she asked us to write the name of the person in our family members that have similarities to us on top left corner. We were asked to pass again in 4 timed in a row.

On top right of the paper, she asked to write what is the most memorable gift we have received in our life. 

Then pass 3 times in a row. On bottom right, our special achievement, pass the paper for 4 times in a row, bottom left a word or phrase about our school and passed 3 times.

Next task, the paper returned to our self. We were asked to find out who actually wrote each of the answer. So we need to get one by one asking for the writer of each answer.

Reflection: To get close and knowing each other.

After the break, we were given 30 minutes to discuss in our group, telling about our experience in school, some sort of information or details about our school and it was more relaxed activity.

After that, we wrote about our school on a piece of paper, with 220 to 250 words length.

We've our lunch and get back in 2.15pm.

We have to sit for APTIS test in the evening at JPN Pahang. The topic covers our 4 language skills. The test held for 3 and half hours. We ended our test on 6.45 pm.

Tomorrow our class starts at 8.30 am.

KURSUS SEBULAN DAAAAA

Yesterday

Tomorrow I will be leaving my school for a month, participating in a program held by Kementerian Pelajaran malaysia with the associates of British Council starting from 1^st until 26^th April 2013 at BTPN Pahang in Beserah, Kuantan. My heart beats fast and I am eager to go there..... lalallaa

Today: 1^st April 2013

I was two and half hour late for the course. It starts at 2pm while I just reached there at 4.30pm. Looking for a seminar room named “Sri Kuantan”, just around the corner to the lot where I parked my car.

I grabbed my note book and a black pen on the passenger’s seat, stepping with speeding up to the room. Just thinking of the reasons I should give to my facilitator.

Oh she is a foreigner. Forgot her name already but remember her country of origin. Hungary is a country in Central Europe. She welcomed me with a smile, introducing herself and vice-versa.

She offered me a seat with 2 guys at the front corner of the class after I filled up a form in her laptop. Without interrupting her, I just fill the form with my eyes looking around the class, identifying who are from them that I have met before.

I have traced two of them are my friends. I was automatically blinking my eyes to them with my hands focusing on the keyboard, typing the information details required.

She told me about the activities going on now. Everybody was asked to get into pair, and gain as much info as we can, getting to know each other by telling some information about self. 5 minutes given was ended. By rotation, each of us ought to stand behind the friend who is sitting next to, and tell the whole class the information got from the previous 5 minutes given in a format which is the person who is standing will tell the story as he is the person who is sitting.

Since I was late, and didn't have partner, so I decided by myself to re-tell two stories about the two guys sitting next to me.

As I've done the task, then the class dismissed. I think it’s only few minutes I’ve been in the class. Well it’s already my responsibility of being that late, and I should bear on my faultiness; the tentative for the whole month, activities, time, and contact number and etc. Getting to know the participants was only I can get in the tea-time-break. Not break actually. The class already ended.

I got the room key after I registered my attendance at the hostel administration, . Harry, my roommate, is from Miri Sarawak, posted to SK Felda New Zealand in Maran Pahang early last year was a very cheerful and informative person. We are in the phase of getting-to-know.

Since there was no activities at night, so i deserved to go back to my hometown in Pekan and should bear in my mind to get up early by 6, so that the last incident won’t happened again; being late to the class. 

Tomorrow class starts at 7.30 am. TQ

Monolog #4 Kene buat Sinopsis

Tomorrow I'll have a class with Miss Tan and we were asked to do the synopsis of a story adapted from a novel. Its 8 pages long and I know that its quite hard for me to get the input from the story. Thanks to few of websites on the net that help me in doing this assignment. Hehehe

The Journey – by Catherine Lim

In her book

 “Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore”

Theme: Appearance versus Reality

Characters:

1. Richard - Main character

2. Mable – Richard’s wife

3. Old folks

Summary

- A man who has risen from his ‘ulu’ village in Malaysia to become a prosperous businessman in Singapore discovers he has cancer. He ends up eschewing expensive treatment overseas to go back to his village, much to the horror of his Westernised wife.

- The effectiveness of traditional medicine might be questionable but the love of the women who raised him is not.

- He is diagnosed with a terminal illness takes time out to reflect on his life.

- He eventually decides to leave his wife who is depicted as materialistic and “westernized” in her capitalist attitude to his life.

- He returns to the village of his birth, into the arms of elderly female relatives who are able to provide him with the emotional and physical support that he needs.

Lesson of the story

·        The modern comforts of luxury and better sanitary standards does not naturally bring about true happiness and prosperity

·        It is sometimes worthwhile to preserve our culture and our past, as antiquated they may seem.

Monolog # 3 Bola

Today’s activity quite bored when it turns no activities in the evening. After woke up from afternoon sleep at 6.00 pm, I have nothing to do besides turn my laptop on and start “facebooking”.

Thony and Nafis ask me whether want to join them have a refreshment at 'warung2000' but I refused to join them. Laziness actually possessed in my body to go outside even from my own room. Today’s morning activities were really tiring my arms. Lanjutan BIG was held this morning at Pre-School garden near Kolej C which is the one that exhausted my body.

I found my friend’s status that talked about a match between Liverpool and Manchester united. The match played at Anfield.  I am not a part of football fans but sometimes when I noticed about it, especially the match between 2 big well-known team, they actually hired me to watch the game by paying moneyless. I’m attracted to it but seem that there is no TV here so I just prefer on let it go. However I still can track along the news by log in www.soccernet.espn.go.com coz they have live cast and commentaries with statistics in every 10 seconds.

Match result: ManU 1(Hernandez) - Liverpool 1(Gerrard)

Monolog #2 Kehidupan Praktikum

For the past 3 months’ practicum, me and my friend, Nicholas has been placed at Sekolah Kebangsaan Saint Ambrose Panchor which is located at Kg Panchor Dayak, 9^th mile, Jalan Kuching- Serian. It’s about 40km from IPGKTAR. I can consider that it was my greatest memory in my life.

On the first day, my friend Nicholas and I reported to Mr Junerason Anyew, Headmaster of this school. We introduced ourselves and gave the identification letter to him. Mr Junerason welcomed us and introduced a little bit about this school that consists of:

1. The history, rules and regulation and school’s disciplinary

2. School administration such as: organization chart, vision and mission, teachers’ responsibilities, GPK, administrators, secretary, head of department, co-curriculum, class teacher, pupils and the school’s environment.

3. Pupils’ background

4. Pupils’ responsibilities

5. Others issues (rapport with villagers, their lifestyles, etc)

After that, weve been introduced to other teachers and staffs. Mr Kelbin Jula is my supervisor and he brought us a tour around this school and I try to build a good rapport with him as I’ll be under his supervision along this three months period.

My heart beat fast and I am eager to see my pupils. He guided me the way to the class I will be placed. Without interrupting the class, Mr Kelbin and I just passed through the class and he told me as much info as he could about this class in term of the pupils, class condition, environment, materials provided and little teaching aids that I can use at the back of the class.

There are many elements of being a teacher in a class I got from the help of him in term of:

• Managing the classroom, pupils and environment
• Handling the teaching aids
• Teacher’s positioning and movement
• Works as planned

My school’s administration really supports me in every activity I planned whenever I need a space or materials for my lessons. Special thanks to the school’s headmaster of being a good leader in this school. Almost every week, he will spent at least 10 minutes with me and my friend, Nicholas to ask about the process of teaching, problems and share together on the issues arose on that particular week. He also welcomed any comments or opinions from us so that he will know the weaknesses that need to be improved on.

As my teacher mentor said, the process of being a good teacher is a time taken. It is an ongoing process and he didn’t expect that I will do excellent in my teaching but as long as I know that I am on my track to the excellence. He add up some more, to make sure that my teaching process get cooperation from the children, I have to give cooperation first to their needs, their feelings, empathy and try to consider with the words of my soul then the successfulness will come to me.

I would like to talk about my class and my pupils.

I took a quote from my friend’s weekly journal:

“I found that action rhymes captivate pupils and help teacher convert their natural energy and enthusiasm into meaningful learning experiences“

I strongly agreed on this. Almost every lesson plan I have conducted, I use this principle in my lesson. In some kind, although it is not stated in the plan, I always make sure my voice intonations, rhyming words, songs, and body gestures and movements with facial expressions attracted their interests. This is important for me to keep the momentum of the pupils’ attention and also it is good for me to boost my energy and enthusiasm.

Another quote from 3^rd week journal:

“My worksheets and questions sometimes did not meet their proficiency level. I have to know what level of my pupils’ proficiency and ability. Some pupils already in the phrase level and some still in letters level. There are multiple intelligence and three proficiency levels in this class.

In the other hands, I will always distribute to all of them the easier one first. I will identify the first 3 persons or in first 5 minutes that can finish the task, consider the high proficiency. While others, I consider in medium proficiency and of course the 2 person that is Andy and Carlos consider in low proficiency level.”

From the issue, it gives me a big problem for the first month of teaching in considering what level of worksheets and tasks should carry on.

Day by day passed. I am able to identify the level of my pupils’ proficiency and my worksheets and tasks’ difficultness.

Thanks to my mentor for his advises. Thanks also to my lecturer mentor Mr Clarence Jerry for guiding me through my practicum period. I still remember that on the first met with him, my friend and I briefed about 2 hours just only discusses on the teaching phases, integrated skills, the principles, skills in context and several theories in educating young learners.

Mr Clarence guiding us in weekly basis although sometimes he was unavailable, he still can spent around 5 to 10 minutes through phone discussing on our problems. He models us on “how busy you are, never ever say no for those who need your helps and guidance because what goes around will come around”. He didn’t mention on this but personally, this is what we learned from his personality.

Along my practicum period, I can say here that there are certain times when my days turn dark and rainy. My teaching process planned well but the outcome really disappointing me. Someday, my pupils’ behaviour turned passive and behind turned hyperactive and gave their commitments to the fullest.

The incident that I cannot take out from my mind when a day I am asking my student about what meals will she has for her lunch and she said that there will be no lunch for her on that day and I asked why, she replied that there are no rice to eat for that afternoon. What should I say? I asked her to eat at least biscuits or whatever food that can be eaten. Today, I am still asking to myself why not I give her money to buy some food on that day.

Quote from my final week’s journal:

“This week is the final week for me and my friend, Nicholas. Start from the first day of this week, I can feel the emptiness in my life later on without my pupils. I’m thinking of their future afterward which is always plays in my mind on what will happen to them. This actually affects to my behavior and my mood in teaching. I feel happy and proud of myself on my feeling now. It shows that I love kids and care about their future”

There are many more to say but little to write. Until we meet again. Bye.