Day 314 Task – Master Environmental Class Day 2

Today is the second day of the 9 to 5 MKKH1513 class. In order to plan and prepare for this class, I have to stay up late until 2.30am. I completely prepared a new set of presentation slide for the Sustainability, Sustainable development and also Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) slide. I also rehearsed the slide with my other half to ensure the videos that I wanted to play during class will be smooth, unlike the disaster that I had with Dr. Siti Hajjar during our ITE class presentation on Sunday, 6 days ago.

The tricky part of the preparation for the class is designing how to run the class. I only successfully managed to think and decided the approach at 11.30pm the day before, that’s 9 hours plus before the actual class started. Being a lecturer who have some background experiences on student centered learning kind of induced me to have a different style of teaching and I want it to be very effective for the student. It’s a a long class and if the method of teaching is a conventional style, it will be very difficult to engage with the students and to get them follow through the class.

Alhamdulillah the class, in my opinion was fruitful at the end, eventually. Instead of asking students to key in padlet like yesterday, I asked them to write a reflection on what they have learned from Saturday and Sunday class. I also asked them to prepare a timeline of all the regulations, acts, declaration, summits etc that happen international regarding international laws related to environment. I really hope the student gained new environmental management knowledge from this class. amin.

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Day 313 Task: Master Environmental Management Class Day 1

The Master Environmental Management Class MKKH 1513 went well Alhamdulillah. This was my first time teaching a Pesisir Program on a Saturday  and tomorrow (a Sunday). I got to know there were 19 students altogether from 2 different batches (Semester 1 and Semester 3). All of them are presently working as professionals  and sacrificed their marvelous weekends to pursue their masters degree. The class commenced with getting to know each other, taaruf which took roughly 40 minutes. It’s important to get to know the students and see their faces, because we are conducting the teaching online and I could not see their faces. Subsequently, I explained about the course information.

I would like to thank Prof Zainura and Dr. Tuan Amran because they help me by providing notes and advices/tips, respectively. Thanks to Dr. Norafneeza who asked me to teach this course. Both of them and few more other lecturers have taught this course before, but for me, it’s my first. After the class, I asked the students to type in what they have learned today in Padlet (as per shown in the image above). The reason is simply so they can recall what they have studied today. You can see the content of Padlet here. I’m very delighted because the response from students were very positive after the class. It can be reflected from the Padlet, whatsapp group and personal whatsapp communication.

I just hope to share knowledge and guide the student to learn more about environmental management.

Read all my “1 Official Task Per Day Record Challenge for 2020” —> https://people.utm.my/zakiyamani/category/1-activity-1-day/