I had a blast with this group of students. Few of them took my Personality Psychology class before. When I asked them why they took my Human Development class, they said that they want to learn from me. They enjoy taking my class. What a bluff! That is my first impression. I know that I should trust my students but due to previous experiences, I still have some reservation when they give me sugar-coated compliment.
One of them suggested that we took a class picture. This is not what I normally do in class. I feel cringed (you can see it from my face). But for the sake of group dynamics, I played along with their request.
9 December 2019 (Monday). It was the final day for our Free Meal and Free Market programme for this semester. It has been 48 weeks since it was launched back in 2016 (errr, not officially launched though :D) and around 5000 students were benefited with the free meal. How time flies!
Harian Metro, 10 Disember 2019
But this time around, we ended it with a bang. Yup. The newly elected Dean, Prof Zaidatun Tasir invited the press to come and you can know more about our programme HERE.
Two of the grandkids were in town last week. Since their Embah was busy with other things, I took a leave to entertain them. So, I sent them for horse back riding session at Equine Park, UTM.
She went first. She asked me if I want to ride the horse too. Nope. No, thank youHe went second. He looked anxious but looking at his sister who rode the horse safely, he was less hesitant to ride the horse.
Other than horse riding session, I want them to have a hands-on activity. Mind you. These two kids know how to play online games (I don’t even know how to play online games and I am older than them). Their Embah was not around. So, to keep them occupied, we baked brownie cookies. The recipe is HERE. But I improvised a bit by adding dark chocolate and left-over Whittard hot chocolate. I used some nearly expired stuff. Alhamdulillah it turned out ok
He tasted his own cookies. The face tells everythingI managed to have 6 jars of these cookies. Different sizes thoughThis is not child labour.
I am a novice in active learning. I have tried jigsaw, think-pair-share, 2 minutes paper and STAD (student-teams achievement division). I challenge myself to learn a new cooperative learning strategy this semester. I choose Gallery Walk (well, I also use Carousel but that one is for poster evaluation).
When I google about Carousel , I find so many versions of it. But the bottom line is, Carousel is a strategy that you use WHEN you want to “semi-force” each individual student to take turn in giving their opinion/answer/response and they “have” to share it with others. Ideally, 4 to 5 students per group.
But in my case, I used Gallery Walk for my PG class. They are more matured students so the whole class is considered as one group. But in this case, I increase the number of questions (each question is position in one station) so they can move around to answer the questions at their own pace and preference. There is no compulsion or assignment of which station would be their first station. They can start at any station to give their response.
There were 7 questions (7 stations) and 11 students. There were few students who absent so, the class seems bigger.Some of them were waiting their turn. These two stations have two “controversial” questions. So, many students were eager to answer the questions.Not so popular station. But, since I instructed them to go to ALL stations, some of them visited this station later than the other stations.
I had a queasy feeling every time I was invited by the group to have a sharing session with them. I feel like an impostor. But, I just took my chance to give my best.
So, there were about 20+ academic staff attended this session. I could see familiar faces. I have high regards towards these people. I salute them for having unwavering passion in teaching especially to those who are “otai” with so many years of teaching experience under their belt. I am supposed to learn from them, not the other way around.
Nevertheless, I shared my experience in using Round Robin in my class. Apparently, some of them have already used it but they don’t know it is Round Robin. Indeed. I learn more from them.
Some of them already left when we took this picture
Nota: Bahan adalah dalam bentuk nota Prezi dan tiada dalam bentuk powerpoint.
Pssst… nota ini pun boleh digunakan untuk kursus yang ada tajuk yang lebih kurang sama seperti kursus SPPP 2032 Pengukuran dan Penilaian dalam Pendidikan
It was a brain-child by one of my colleagues, Assoc Prof Dr Fatin Aliah Phang few years back. At that time, I didn’t involve too much in the activity. Then it all started when we had an idea plus extra budget to give special meal due to Chinese New Year in 2018. So, she asked me to make some preparation i.e. get enough Ang Pau packets (which I still have some left-overs) and buy oranges (which I change into Ferrero Rocher instead because there were on sales).
See the wide smiles on their faces! It really made our day.
Fast forward. It is 2019. Late 2019. Some of the coupons are worn out. But, I replace that with new ones. While doing that, I found out that some of the students wrote some notes of Thank You.
Some of the things they wrote “Thanks for providing to someone in need.” “May Allah bless all always.” “Good job guys” “Thank you”, “Semoga Tuhan merahmati kalian” “Thank you. Next!” “Terima kasih”100 pax seems not enough. But, alhamdulillah, it seems enough for all. We also have free market (free stationery booth)
I taught some of them last year. Those were the times when I felt “I need to do something”. Fast forward. They are taking their SPM now. Today is the English paper.
