Seventh week of practicum in MRSM Balik Pulau

This week is all about examination, which is Standardised test II for Form 1, Form 2 and Form 4 while Form 3 and Form 5 are having PT3 and SPM  Trial exam respectively. I spent the week to prepare lesson plan and materials for next week lesson and to mark test paper for my class. 

sixth week of practicum in MRSM Balik Pulau

Day 1 – It was Independence Day for Malaysia, so it was school holiday for everyone.

Day 2 – I was so happy in the morning since I thought that I have no class on that day. However, it ended up that my students told me that I have class with them. There was a lighting and storm of nervousness coming to me. Luckily, I have prepared some materials since last week, so, I ended up using them. A remainder for me next time, I need to plan ahead, always the timetable and always have back up plan for my future lesson.

On the other notes, I got some reimbursement money from the school in relation to the stealing phone cases.

Day 3 – I was planning to play ‘poison box’ game to check student understands on Tenses with 1 Farabi. However, we ended up spending time to check school homework and providing new worksheet. I guessed one period lesson wont be enough to do much activity.

Since my 1K students’ learning were ahead of 1F, I ended up spent one period lesson to play ‘poison box’ game with them. At least, the student were having fun playing the games and revising the tenses along with it.

I had two meetings for the day. The evening meeting was to discuss on the students’ co curriculum achievement and how to key in data for them. The other meeting was at night time. The night meeting was monthly hostel warden meeting to update every warden on the event that was happening around the hostel and to find out alternative to overcome students’ discipline problem in hostel.

Day 4 – For today’s lesson, I had problem with deciding on the punishment needed for my students. This is because even when I have reminds them the day and the night before the class, some of them ended up didn’t bring any materials for the lesson. It was supposed to be their learning aids for the day. So, I think I need to find the alternative to ensure that they do provide the materials needed for my future lesson with them. However, at least, I have the backup plan of sharing some music to them to give some idea to them.

I found out that there is a weak student in my 1K. He cant even understand or comprehension my simple instruction which was “prepare your favourite song lyrics” or “just write any lyrics of the song that you can remember”. He said he cant think of my sentences at all for the whole lesson. I tried to help him by providing some song such as the simple song as ABC song and guide him to write a few sentences about the song. However, he said that he don’t know what the ABC song is about, which showed to me that he have problem with English and he needs extra help with it.

At the night time, I have extra class with 1F to dicuss about some homework exercise that I gave to them. This extra class was intended to ensure that they can catch up with other class and prepare them for next week standardized test.

Day 5 – I have class with 1F only for today. I did the same activities with 1K, which was “my favourite song”. It tooks them only one period of the lesson to complete the task, compared to 1K students that needs 2 period. Therefore, they were allowing me to do some game to discuss and revise about some tenses that I couldn’t finish in previous lesson.