assoc. prof. ir. ts. DR. MUHAMMAD HANIF RAMLEE

Well, this is a little bit late for me to update my web on what I have done last February. Fuh, looks like I am very busy person or maybe lazy to update???

So, A-Step workshop for the month of February was held at T02, FBME. The same thing we did from the first meeting in January, we played LEGO!!!!!

There were two sessions in this workshop. For the first session, we designed a metaphor to describe our own attitudes and characters. Later, we explained to everyone. For the second session, we were given a name of someone in this workshop, then we designed a metaphor of that person to describe his/her personality based on what we already know about him/her.

Last 18 January 2017, I have attended A-STEP (Academic Staff Experience) workshop at Dean’s meeting room, Level 3, Block A, Faculty of Biosciences and Medical Engineering. The main purpose of such workshop is to engage all new young researchers and lecturers who are still under 4 years serving as UTM staff. The workshop was handled by our ‘otai’ in the faculty, Prof. Dato’ Ir. Dr. Mohammed Rafiq Bin Abdul Kadir. Tentatively, we will be having this kind of workshop every month.

For the first two hours workshop, we used LEGO to describe our own characters!!!!!! Later, we then used LEGO as well to describe the characters among our participants!!!! Meaning that we played LEGO for just two hours!!!

Let see what we did last time.

On 1st and 2nd of February 2017, I attended an academic workshop entitled Constructive Alignment. The workshop was held at Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL), UTM Johor Bahru. During two days of workshop, there were two lecturers from Faculty of Education; Dr. Adibah and Dr. Rohaya, who are delivered a great technique on how to construct Course Learning Outcome (CLO) before the class begin. In brief, the constructive alignment is a principle used for devising teaching and learning activities, and assessment tasks, that directly address the intended learning outcomes (ILOs) in a way not typically achieved in traditional lectures, tutorial classes and examinations (Biggs and Tang, 2011).

The first speaker was Dr. Adibah

The second speaker was Dr. Rohaya

In the end of the workshop, I personally realised that all lecturers need to have a concrete plan to cover the syllabus and assessment method before any class begin. We must put a higher priority at the started plan especially for CLO, to ensure all students could have a good learning process and correct assessment method. Otherwise, we will persecute students.