{"id":5416,"date":"2020-08-04T15:25:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T07:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2020-08-20T09:18:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T01:18:34","slug":"brian-little-you-make-my-day-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/brian-little-you-make-my-day-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Little, you make my day. Thank you"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a short stint of professional training at school in 2018, I determine to change the activities that I do in class.\u00a0 But clearly going to secondary school for professional training does not give me a better idea how to teach university students.\u00a0 It is a fact.<\/p>\n

There are certain things about my teaching that I decided to change.\u00a0 One of it is my class note.\u00a0 No more Powerpoint.\u00a0 So, I use Prezi which I subscribe for USD60 annually.\u00a0 It worth every penny that I spend.\u00a0 Based on feedback that I got from students for the past few semesters, they like Prezi notes as compared to Powerpoint because they can control which part they want to read or focus based on themes that I use as a means to organise my notes.<\/p>\n

Other than my notes, I decided to “upgrade” my class activities.\u00a0 This is challenging.\u00a0 One of it is because I have little idea about how to do it.\u00a0 I don’t want the activities to be a burden to my students and they don’t learn much from such activities.\u00a0 So, what I normally do when I am struggling to get some ideas about the activities that I want to implement in class, I would put everything aside and just focus on reading.\u00a0 I have read and reread the books that I already have.\u00a0 I was a little bit lazy to go to the library to borrow books.\u00a0 So, I went to Popular bookstore (I still prefer to go to the physical bookstore, rather than shopping online).<\/p>\n

As I browsed books on the Psychology section, I saw this book.\u00a0 The title is intriguing.\u00a0 My first thought was “Another autobiography book?” But it is not.\u00a0 As I read the book, I imagine Brian is my mentor.\u00a0 Even though I don’t know him personally, but I have watched his TED Talk.\u00a0 I got some ideas that I think I can try in my own class.\u00a0 In this case, I am thinking about in what way I can make my students enjoy and appreciate what they learn in class.\u00a0 It is not about me, but rather what they learn in class.<\/p>\n

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So, I tried one of the activities that Brian had used in his class.\u00a0 Even though I don’t have any clear idea about how he did it, but based on what I understand reading his book, I gave my students a question.\u00a0 A question that will prompt them to explore about their own selves.\u00a0 But unlike Brian, I gave my students other activities too.\u00a0\u00a0 So, I combine the question based on what I find in Brian’s book with the class activities that I normally do in class.<\/p>\n

Then, COVID-19 happens.\u00a0 Nobody ever thought how challenging teaching and learning would be.\u00a0 I was worried in the middle of the semester.\u00a0 I hope and pray that things will go well despite the challenges that we have to face.\u00a0 To know how my students were coping, I gave them a chance to let their feelings known.\u00a0 So, I asked a simple question “What they want to let me know as their instructor?”\u00a0 The following are some of the feedback that I got from the students.<\/p>\n

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