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Thinking Out of The Box But Working Along

The document describes an innovation implemented during a teacher training practicum to improve trainee teacher confidence and skills. The innovation involved designing lesson plans incorporating teaching aids and hands-on activities. This helped the trainee teachers gain experience and receive immediate feedback. As a result, the trainee teachers felt more confident and competent in their teaching abilities by the end of the practicum. The pupils also benefited from the interactive lessons and engaged well with the new activities.

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Thinking Out of The Box But Working Along

The document describes an innovation implemented during a teacher training practicum to improve trainee teacher confidence and skills. The innovation involved designing lesson plans incorporating teaching aids and hands-on activities. This helped the trainee teachers gain experience and receive immediate feedback. As a result, the trainee teachers felt more confident and competent in their teaching abilities by the end of the practicum. The pupils also benefited from the interactive lessons and engaged well with the new activities.

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Thinking Out of the Box but Working Along the Parameter

JENNY KWONG SHUK WAH (Individual Category)

INTRODUCTION

Practicum is the single most powerful intervention in a teachers professional preparation. Turney et. al (1982:47)

The aim was to maximize the 12-week practicum to enhance the pedagogical knowledge and competence among the KPLI TESL trainee teachers and instil the passion of teaching English in primary school.

The Trigger Point

I still remembered during the second week of the practicum, Miss Mercy come to me almost in tears telling me that she was stressed and had no confidence in her own teaching as the pupils corrected her English in the class. Both of them expressed concern that they could not teach, no ideas how to plan activities and carry out the activities effectively in the class. RFCT/R/1

The Implementation principles


Thinking out of the box : practicum as an Action Research. Working along the parameter : still adhere to the Clinical Supervision guidelines

1st : The Teaching of Reading Using Stick Puppets


Set induction : Jazz Chant Use stick puppets to introduce the characters of the story teacher read the story, pupils acted out by holding the stick puppets answered comprehension questions which were constructed based on the Blooms Taxonomy the reinforcement and production stage would be for the pupils to work in groups, read, act and decide the ending of the story.

1st: The Teaching of Reading Using Stick Puppets

SMART Attainable, objectives.

(Specific, Measurable, Realistic and Tangible)

2nd: The Teaching of Writing Group Writing & Immediate Feedback

set induction : Rain, Rain Go Away song Journalist Method : Wh questions the cooperative learning strategies the open marking and immediate feedback I macro-taught with them as my pupils I also did the corrections of the writing

3rd: The Teaching of Vocabulary Mind Map

set induction : Hangman game Pictures to name the four types of weather: sunny, windy, cloudy and rainy. the three adjectives associated with each type of weather the use of synonyms and antonyms the use of mind map Multi-level worksheets for exercise the construction of four sentences using four different adjectives from four different types of weather

4th: The Teaching of Listening & Speaking The Guessing Game & Public Speaking

set induction ; Listen and Draw listen to ten descriptions of various places of interest in Malaysia and guess the names of these landmarks taught the important features of describing places of interest the pupils to describe pictures of landmarks

5th: The Teaching of Grammar Using Table


Set induction : real objects word cards with colour codes on the suffixes of er and est to indicate the change of spelling to form a table, the covert method the irregular comparison of adjectives, the overt method Word Search Puzzle and multilevel proficiency worksheets

Post Implementation of the Innovation

The trainee teachers gained tremendous confidence, improved in their pedagogical knowledge and became competence in teaching. They were passionate about their teaching and learning activities. Interesting teaching aids Pupils learnt how to fish instead of eating the fish I, as lecturer supervisor constantly reflected and tried to improve my supervision skills

The Materials Needed

The materials needed for this innovation are minimum and involved mainly stationery.

Cost

This innovation did not incur any cost on my part as the materials needed were either provided for by the institute or purchased by the trainee teachers themselves.

Reduced Operational Cost

It did not incur any operation cost as this innovation was incorporated into the practicum.

Time Saving

The initial two supervisions took hours as I had to look through the lesson plans, guide them to prepare teaching aids, and macro-teach. However, the subsequent supervisions were shorter and lasted less than half an hour each. This innovation has proven to help save time in the long run in helping the trainee teachers to become autonomous effective teachers

The Effectiveness of the Teaching and Learning

Now Im not afraid to teach writing anymore. I even teach my other housemates how to do the marking. I give them more writing, cant wait to mark, bring home to mark, so interesting, a lot of ideas. ITW/TT1 If you want to know how to mark composition, you can come to me. PPR/TT1 At the end of my practicum,I felt more confident compare to the first day teaching..(u knew me..im always nervous =)..) the experience during practicum made me feel really enjoy teaching..and its totally change my view of teaching where b4 I thought is only deliver whatever in the text book. And practicum taught me how to make my lesson enjoyable-of course by using teaching aids =) love to do it till now. The lesson that I thnk most successful when I taught them about listening..do u still remember I ask them to draw an alien by listening to my instruction? I thnk they enjoyed it frm the beginning of the lesson till the end. SMS/TT2

Lecturers / pupils satisfactions


They are really good. Not using BM (Malay language) to teach difficult words like scorching, glaring. ITW/TS When they first came in, they spoke softly in the class. Now they speak louder. I can say that this is a sign of gaining confidence. ITW/TS I like to write now. but I dont like to write in groups, I want to write my own. I remember Hangman, Chicken Dance, we sing song ITW/P I like teacher Mercy because teacher is very kind get many activiti. I like aktiviti. . ITW/P before this, I so Boring because dont have game. After teacher Mercy come to school, I so very happy because can play game and can I very clever. pleas teacher become to my teache inglish. TQC/P

Other Benefits

This innovation is applicable on other options such as Science, Mathematics, Physical Education etc. I have developed a new approach in teaching. conduct a research on my own teaching which is currently underway

Other Benefits (Success Story)

Miss Ros who is currently teaching in a remote school SK Merting, 45-minute drive away from Jerantut, Pahang. She proudly told me that she has helped to break the school record by producing 7 all As pupils in UPSR last year because they scored A in English which was always a problematic subject.

Conclusion

In my own small way, I did contribute and help to realise the fifth and fourth thrusts of the Education Development Master Plan.

Contribution towards PIPP

The fifth thrust : Strengthening the Teaching Profession (Memartabatkan Profesion Keguruan). The fourth thrust : Bridging of the Education Gap (Merapatkan Jurang Pendidikan).

Thank you.

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