5th week~~~~

Hola and salam~~~

5th week, 5th week, 5th week. This week’s class started with a good deed I should say. The whole class helped a PhD student to answer his questionnaires. Hope that questionnaire really helps him with his research.

After that, Pn. Foziah showed us on how to use Moyea to download videos. Although Moyea was already introduced in the previous week, this week’s demonstration was really useful.

Next, Pn.Foziah assigned us a task. For the task we need to work in pairs and the pair should be from different gender. My partner and I were assigned the topics Places in school, Animals and pets and Liza’s Family. The task is basically to find resources or teaching aids which matches the topics given. To simplify our work, Pn. Foziah created a template in which we have to include the stages, the kind of teaching aids, rationale for choosing the teaching aids and final column is for comments. The template served as a very useful guide for us to complete the task. Thanks Pn. Foziah.

Talking about resources or teaching aids, it is actually a part of our life. Why do I say so? because as future teachers, we will be collecting, creating and using different types of teaching aids in our lesson. Teaching aids is actually a very good resource to enable the pupils to understand the lesson taught. It actually helps the pupils to learn in a fun and enjoyable way. For example, young kids will be excited and interested to see colourful pictures, videos, catchy songs and language games. When the pupils are excited and interested, it would create a warm environment for them to learn. The pupils will actually learn indirectly by playing the games, singing songs, watching videos and many more.

Young learners cannot be separated from fun and play. Therefore, the only way for a teacher to bring in fun and play in the classroom is through teaching aids. As future teachers, teaching aids is very important to carry out our lessons successfully. The task assigned to us will be a stepping stone for us to have a compilation of various teaching aids in the future.

That’s all for this week, see you all in the next entry. Bye....