Strategies for effective learning lesson plan (6th reflection)

Hello again my fellow friends. So, I will continue about lesson plan but this time I will explain the strategies for effective learning lesson plan.

Everyone was focused on sir Teo explanation about lesson plan, dont want to miss any information so that we can do it properly in our lesson plan assignments. 

Sir Teo had explained to us about the strategies for effective lesson planning, he told us that there are 6 steps to create our first lesson plan. Which are:-

-         - Outline learning objective

-         - Develop the introduction

-         - Plan the specific learning activities (the main body of the lesson plan)

-         - Plan to check for understanding

-         - Develop a conclusion and preview

-         - Create a realistic timeline

Therefore, to be effective, the lesson plan does not have to been exhaustive document that describes each and every possible classroom scenario. Nor does it have to anticipate each and every student’s response or question. Instead it should provide us with a general outline of our teaching goals, learning objectives, and means to accomplish them. It is a reminder of what we want to do and how we want to do it. A productive lesson is not one in which everything goes exactly as planned, but one in which both students and instructor learn from each other.

What is lesson plan? (5th reflection)

Hello again everyone. These few weeks was a tough week though, there’s assignment, forums and I have to practice and teach my team member a few dance step for our “Hubungan Etnik” performance which is also for our assignment. Besides that, I’m not really good in organizing time that’s why I have to do multitasking on my weekends which is supposed to be my ‘relaxed day’. 😕😭

My Forum and Assignment reminder. 😆

Okay, let start with my 5^th reflection which is about lesson plan.

Sir Teo explain to us about lesson plan. 😉

What is lesson plan?

It is one of the most important activities a teacher must do is to plan lessons.  In order to prepare students for success, lessons must be planned thoroughly and include all components of an essential curriculum.

What are we going to teach, how we will teach it, how will we determined if students ‘get it.

What do we need to know in order to write lesson plan?

-          - Objective to be taught/assessed

-          - Prior knowledge needed

-          - Materials to be used

-          - Learning styles of students

-          - How you will assess student mastery

As a soon teacher to be, I need to set my own philosophy and plan my lesson plan for students, we should not teach students without any objective in their learning because students need to learn step by step. Before planning a lesson, we need to have a clear idea of what the teaching objectives are. What, specifically, the student should be able to do, understand and care about.  

We need to know the type of lesson to be presented, procedures to be followed, and behavioral expectations related to the lesson, what students are expected to do, what knowledge or skills are to be demonstrated and in what manner.  Students should be informed about what is expected of them. 

That’s all. Stay tuned for my next reflection.

School of Thought - Behavioral (4th Reflection)

          Hello everyone. For my 4^th reflection would be the last topic for school of thought. My team member, Fikri and Rezwie will represent our group presentation. 😉✌

The third school of thought is Behavioral school of thought which is also called behaviornism.  As the name implies, it helps us to understand why we behave as we do, scientist finding out how external, environmental stimuli cause overt or observable learner behaviour and how modifying a learner’s environment can change behaviour.

There are four types of behaviourism which are contiguity, classical conditioning, operant conditioning and social learning. I will explain simply so that easier for us to understand.

Contiguity - It proposes that any stimulus and response connected in time and/or space will tend to be associated.

Classcial Conditioning - Classical conditioning is defined as conditioned response to a neutral stimulus after having been paired repeatedly with an unconditioned stimulus.   

Operant Conditioning - Actions that are followed by reinforcement will be strengthened and more likely to occur again in the future. It is also a method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior.  

Social Learning - Bandura's Social Learning Theory posits that people can learn form one another, via observation, imitation, and modelling. The theory has often been called a bridge between behaviorists and cognitive learning theories because it encompasses attention, memory and motivation. 

That's all for the topic school of thought. Hope we all can learn and understand well about the Theories School of Thought. Stay tuned for my next reflection. 😇💁

School of thought – Humanistic (3rd reflection)

Hello again everyone. How you all have been doing? I feel exhausted! HAHA! *kidding*
Our class for Pedagogy is from 5pm until 7pm and I was already feel tired that time because of the afternoon class from 3pm until 5pm, but we as a student should never complain about tired or too many assignments because that is our duty as a student. 💁😉
3^rd reflection is Humanistic school of thought that presented by Sabarinah’s team. 👍

      Humanistic school of thought, a second school of thought about learning and instruction is based upon humanistic education, which borrows heavily from social psychology. Persons who champion humanistic or ‘affective’ education focus on the social and emotional learning and development of students. While the humanistic approach recognizes the importance of cognitive learning, it feels that schools focus too much on accumulating knowledge or skills and too little on helping students learn to become psychologically healthy persons.

      There are some beliefs of the humanistic school that hold several core beliefs; the belief of having a good feelings about one self can create positive personal development and may enhance the academic achievement, school and classroom must satisfy students needs, teachers must have strategies and technique that are suitable for learners and also knowing how to learn is more important than acquiring knowledge.

       In addition, there are two examples humanistic approaches to teaching and learning which is the project method and cooperative learning. The project method encourages kids to pursue their own learning interests, while cooperative learning promotes social and emotional growth in a classroom where children share, accept, and respect. Other than that, there are also other humanistic approaches to teaching and learning which is inviting school success, values clarification, moral education and multiethnic education.  

So, I have uploaded photo for us easier to understand. For the next school of thought is behavioral school of thought that will be present by me and my team members. I think we will do great for the next presentation because my team member was very talk-active, jovial and friendly and also we all have so much in common. 😂👍

School of thought - Cognitive (2nd Reflection)

          My second reflection in Sir Teo class, the first group to present would be Rachel’s team, they will discuss about The Cognitive School of Thought which is one the first topic from the three school of thought.  Before I explain more about the topic, I still remember that time it’s a rainy day and my classmate including myself can already feel the "bed and pillow" (sleepy) 😴 but unfortunately the class must go on and as usual sir Teo will always keep us to stay awake with his joke. 👍😂

           The cognitive school of thought, it is study by the cognitive scientist about how people/student thinks or what goes inside our heads when we are learning. It has been contributed into two types of ideas by the cognitive scientists which is information processing and meaningful learning that helps us to understand how people learn and remember. To easier for us to remember, I will explain in my own words about what is information processing and meaningful learning.

Information processing: it is about how we mentally take in and store information and we retrieve it when we needed. For example, as a tutor if we understand and know about the information processing, we should be able to help our student in become a better at taking in and remembering information. Furthermore, it is also expand into two types of remembering information which are short term memory and long term memory. The following figure is illustrate how the study believes information is process.

Meaningful learning: it is about how information can be made more meaningful so that it can be better understood and used, there are several other recommended ways of teaching that are expansions or elaboration of forms of meaningful learning which is authentic learning, scaffolding, reciprocal teaching (ReT) and problem solving. 

That's all from my simple explanation and visual for us to understand well about cognitive school of thought. 💁😀