Week 5 | 26 - 30 September | Improvements!

Monday was started with morning assembly. There was also a short skit in conjunction to Anti - Rasuah program. It was a program to ban corruptions.

 

a peak from the skit

 

I had tried taking pictures of my pupils before, but they were usually shy. This time, they showed improvements.

 Improvement - pupils were smiling when I took their pictures

SWOT ANALYSIS FOR WEEK 5

STRENGTH

• Students showed improvements. More pupils were volunteering when I asked them to volunteer to answer some questions.

WEAKNESS

• A weakness that I discovered this week was, pupils tend to take too much time to complete the groupwork they were working on.

OBSERVATION

• As kids, I understand that they can still be struggling to distribute work among them. This then result to consuming more time than they actually could.

THREAT

• Time management is the most important thing. I had to be more stern in order to make pupils finish their work in allocated time.

Week 4 | 19 - 23 September | Hari Pameran Hasil Kerja Murid

This week, quite a lot had happened. Besides teaching as usual, us, practicum teachers along with other senior teachers were assigned to do the booths for pupils' exhibitions.

This week, I taught 5 UIAM about food blog and how to order at restaurants or cafes.

On 23rd September, Hari Pameran Hasil Kerja Murid was held at Dewan Kecil SK Taman Melawati 2.

SWOT ANALYSIS OF WEEK 6

STRENGTH

• Pupils were able to engage actively and almost all pupils managed to complete the worksheet without any mistake.

WEAKNESS

• Few pupils made minor mistakes like spelling errors and decimal point placements for price.

OBSERVATION

• After observing, I realized that I need to make sure to focus on spelling and emphasize to pupils about the decimal points.

THREAT

• To boost students' motivation to learn, a variety of changes may be made. I could, for instance, recognize each of their top performers. Along with adopting fun teaching strategies, parents may help their children learn by providing them with materials like colorful paper and pencils that stimulate their imaginations.

Week 3 | 12 - 16 September | First time teaching

I started my week on Monday by finally teaching. My classes are on Monday at 11:30 am - 1 pm, Wednesday at 11:30 am - 1 pm and on Thursday at 10 am - 11 am.

Monday - 12th September

The very first lesson I taught was countable and uncountable nouns. It could be seen that some of the pupils were still trying to adapt with a new teacher teaching them. 

These are some appendix I used to teach my class

Tuesday - 13th September

In the next class, I taught my pupils the next subtopic of Unit 5 - Food and Health. In this subtopic, I taught them the adjectives that are related to food. Firstly, I explained what is adjective and what makes it different from noun. After that, I showed them examples of adjectives and how to use them.

shape of the glasses - cylinder

thickness of the burger - thick

thickness of the burger - thin

shape of the bread - square

shape of the bread - round/circle

the origin of Nasi Lemak - Malaysia

the origin of Kimchi - Korea

After making sure the pupils have understood adjectives well, I gave them a simple worksheet to test their understanding.

Wednesday - 14th September

I didn't have any classes and only had to go to other classes for relief.

Thursday - 15th September

Due to school activity, my class on Thursday was postponed to the next time.

Friday - 16th September

I didn't have any classes and only had to go to other classes for relief.

SWOT ANALYSIS OF WEEK 3

STRENGTH 

• Almost all students can cooperate well in class. All the tasks are completed as planned.

WEAKNESS

• I discovered some flaws in both pupils and myself. I was still nervous to teach and some pupils were not taking my lesson seriously. Therefore, not all pupils were 100% focusing on me. 

OBSERVATION 

• Instead of being soft and smiley all the time, I changed my way of teaching by being more stern. I also made sure I sound more confident while talking and explaining.

THREAT 

• If I don't get this weakness fixed, pupils will never respect me as their teacher and my lesson will not be fully effective.

Week 2 | 29 - 2 September | First time entering 5 UIAM

This week was started on Monday by celebrating Hari Ambang Kemerdekaan in conjunction to Independence Day. The celebration was really lively. There were montage show, performances by each year pupils and also simple singing performances by some teachers.

Since this week was still busy with a lot of other activities, my timetable kept clashing with the activities. Therefore, I didn't get to enter my class - 5 UIAM to teach. Instead, I got to enter the class just to relief other absent teacher.

I took this opportunity to do some ice breaking to get to know them

 

Week 1 | 22 - 26th and 28th August | HELLO SK TAMAN MELAWATI 2 | ROS & Sport Week

 

Monday - 22nd August 2022

Today was my first day at SK Taman Melawati 2. Along with another 7 friends from KUPTM, we went to report for duty as practicum teachers at the school office. We were welcomed warmly by Puan Salwati, the Guru Penolong Kanan Pentadbiran, or shortly GPK Pentadbiran. 

After assigning 4 of us in the morning session and 4 of us in the evening session, we were brought to see around the school and meet our mentors. The mentors are the senior teachers who would guide and help us on how to apply the theories we have learned to become a teacher, at school. 

Throughout the practicum period, I will be teaching year 5 students from class 5UIAM. But of course, my responsibility is not only in that class. Just like every other teachers, as a practicum teacher, I am also responsible to relief classes with absent teachers and join co-curriculum activities.

Tuesday - 23rd August 2022

The first week we came, we had to go through ROS, which is Rancangan Orientasi Sekolah. It means we don't have to start teaching right away. Instead, we were given a week to observe how and what teachers do to handle events at school aside from teaching. It also happened to be Sukantara Week so we didn't have to start teaching right away yet. I was assigned to be a teacher under Purple Clubhouse.

Today, I was given a task to be the time recorder of running category. The other 5 teachers as time keepers recorded the time for the first until fifth place and I had to record the time they took to arrive at the finishing line.

Wednesday - 24th August 2022

Since there were a lot of pupils to filter for each category of Sukantara, it was continued to the next day. For today, I was one of the time keepers for hurdles category.

Thursday - 25th August 2022

We had finished with Sukantara. For today, all teachers were assigned to train pupils for marching according to out clubhouse. Since my clubhouse is purple, I helped to train pupils in purple clubhouse and also with the decorations. The marching training was held at the school hall, while the decoration session was held at different venues according to each clubhouse.

Friday - 26th August 2022

After training and doing decoration yesterday, today we had a full rehearsal for the marching. The marching will be presented during the Hari Sukan Tahunan before they proceed with all categories.

Sunday - 28th August 2022

Today was the Hari Sukan Tahunan. The marching from every clubhouse was successfully performed. After that, it was followed by all final level for all sports' categories. Me and some of my friends helped with the finishing touch of the marching and then went to the emergency tent, in case there were injured students. There were, but fortunately not a lot. After the event ended including the gift giving session ended, all teachers took pictures together and went home.