Week 5 in MRSMBPJ

Hi, fifth week in MRSMBPJ! Fuh! it's been a month since I first came here. Time flies....not.. Not bad experience at all. This week has an unexpected task and day. Yesterday, Sunday the 24th , I had took 2B class for because Kak Arfah went to UNGA in KL. So I had promised her to take both 2B and 4B classes. The funny part begin here, one of 2B member asked me where the class should be. They were always in the PSP, unfortunately this week form 3 is having their trial, so no students were allowed to use PSP. They went to class, but 4B were there. One student suggestS to have class at the main foyer in front of the office. I felt funny but continue with the lesson there, but one of the teacher had adviced the boys not to damage the plant in the cubicle there, so we had to move to Dewan Selera. We finish our class there quite early. That was my first time experience with students who had no class to learn. Its quite funny and made me felt nervous at the same time. In form 4B, almost all students were sleepy, one student asked me if they can finish chemistry class notes during the lesson. As I made some consideration, I agreed to teach only one lesson and another lesson is their free time. Most of the students were asleep. On Tuesday, at 9 in the morning, my mentor and I had conducted the oral speaking trial for form three students. It ends at almost 1 p.m.. Before we went back, I had my preparation for the next observation. On Wednesday, the first half before recess just involved with lesson preparation. I had my formative assessment at 10.40 a.m. teaching 4B for two periods. They had fun doing running dictation activity. I had also asked them to suggest what they expect in English class with me. I received lots of funny request and as summary I knew they hate boring task which made them feel sleepy. As on the last day of the week, I taught 2B , picture dictation, they seems bored. Maybe I should do something else like games or anything which did not involve with only pen and paper. The class was also being observed  by my mentor and I received lots of feedback. I'm going to use different template next time. for now, I'm excited to go back for Merdeka holiday :D. bubye.

week 4

The activity week entry. It was very busy and hectic week for all students. They were so busy doing all the activities planned for them. I can still see their tired faces. But I knew they were having fun. As for me, the first day of the week, I became the audience for form 2 drama before they went to Baraan (Marhaban) at Kampong Separap. I had assisted form two Berlian homeroom as their homeroom teacher was absence. They would go from house to house in the village assisted by one of the villagers. We ride bus to the village and as we came back, we went to the opening ceremony of the activity week held at the village centre. The next day, I had become one of the panels for mock interview with form five students. I had the account stream students. I realized they have lots to improve especially in English vocabularies. Me and the other panel En. Fairul was a bit shocked with form five students’ level of English, they found it quite hard to understand what had been asked by the interviewer as asked few time for question to be simplified. Later that night, me and my other friends had become the judges for ‘Malam Kesenian Islam’.  On Tuesday, we had our main activity, remember I told you about the ‘Minion Rush’ we planned for form one and two students? We had that activity until noon before they start their mini business as their next activities of the day. At night my friends and I went to Palestin awareness night called ‘Shoutul Ghazza’, the school had invited Maulana AF as one of the guest who had been to Ghazza and give students some inspirational talk.  The next day form one, two and four students had their activity called ‘Sosial Prihatin’, sort of Explore race involved with outside campus checkpoints. Later at night, we had the ‘Maktab Eid Celebration’ as well as performances from both teachers and students. The highlight of the night was the fireworks outside the main hall as a signal to the end of activity week and celebration for Independence month.  Last day of the week involved with prize giving ceremony in the morning and motivational talk with Dr. Sheikh Muzaffar Shukor until noon. The activity week had been tiring for students and some teachers. Hence, it was really fun to be part of it. This week will involve with trial exam for form three and five students and normal learning process for other forms. Looking forward for this upcoming week before Independence day J. I will update you more next week. Tata 

week 3 in MRSMBPJ

This will be the third week blog since I first came here to MRSMBPJ. Last week was a relax week since the school was having monthly test for all forms. The first two days of the week were just the AB (Academic Buddy) days, where peers help each other in their learning process. During these two days, I was not much involved with the learning process but spending my time more in the stuffs room and helping other teachers with their work. The test started on Tuesday. Early morning,  I was assigned by one of the teacher together with my friend to do the PGG for form five and later I was assigned to look after a class for their test by my mentor. On Tuesday night, I had experienced different way of celebrating Eid. In Johor, they were having this tradition called Baraan (Marhaban) where in one session, there would be around six or seven houses involved with the celebration. I had never experience this kind of Eid before. This was a great opportunity to realize that despite I had experienced cross culture in NZ, there are lots more of culture in my own country that I have not had chance to experience yet. It was really fun. On Wednesday, I was once again assigned to look after a test at the main hall. I took this chance to get to know other teacher who was also assigned to look after the test. On the last day of the week, I was assigned to help the students’ culture event exhibition next Friday at UniKL. I was hoping to see how the exhibition goes. This week will be the activity week, and my friends and I had helped the teachers to do some activities for form 1 and 2 students. We planned to do The Amazing Race concept game, but named it as ‘Minion Rush’ as the students were so little and cute. There would be fun staff such as blow the balloon until it burst and they will find a piece of idiom where they have to match the given idioms with its meaning. The activities had been approved and I am so excited to see how it goes this Tuesday. I had also assigned to be the panel for mock interview for form five students. This is such a good exposure for me to see how it is done. I am looking forward for that, as we were given a file contains questions for students as well as a guideline for the interviewer. That is all about last week. Things went through pretty smooth for me here without any hassle.

Week 2 practicum

Hi, so this is my second week in MRSMBPJ after 10 days of Raya break. On 4/8/2014, I had observed class 3E. They worked on their ELSA model for their PT3 paper. I had observed that while maintaining to assist my mentor's students in their work, she was also able to maintain her good rapport with her students. On the very same day, i was assigned to teach 4D just 5 minutes before class, without any preparation, I asked my mentor for a little help, and she asked me to do some speech writing. The class did  not go well entirely, but manageable. In the end of the day, I've been assigned to take 2B with prepared lesson by my mentor. It was about MH17, I had tried to figure out their thought about the tragedy, it was obvious that form 2 students could not critically comment on a tragedy. It is possibly because limited knowledge and they are not trained enough to think critically compared to upper forms. On the next day, I was focusing on the preparation for observe class on the 6th August until noon. I had also observed my mentor how she conducted her form five class. In the evening, I had chance to see how the teachers conduct their PGG (Program Gerak Gemilang ) with form three students. It was surprised to see some of them were so eager in finishing their work, while some just sleep.  With all the preparation prepared for 6th August class, I went to school that morning with bulk of enthusiasm to teach 4B, but it was ruined when my mentor said that I would not be observed in that class, instead she asked to take the form 2B class in the end of the schedule. I discovered that my lesson plan for form 4 class will not work on form 2, so I remade the lesson plan, according to this patriotic month, the Independence Day topic. It was really fun to discovered that I have to improve my control in the class, as well as my time management. I have tendency to pity the students who works slow in discussion group, and I had also discovered that , it was not easy to be a firm teacher with those 14 years old students, while maintaining their respect to you. So the week went on to my observation day and it went smooth with 4B. Amazingly. I still did not receive my feedback from my mentor, so I was hoping she would say something before I teach again next week :D. Thats all for now. Daaaaa

First week summary

This blog is about my daily experience as student teacher in MRSM BP. Supposedly I should post this blog daily, since it was only four days, I decided to sum up my four days experience in one shot. On Sunday afternoon (20/7), I met the principal, my mentor Nur Arfah Jelani and also all the stuffs in the school. I went to school tour before settled in teacher's quarters. The house allocated was really comfy and spacious. Since it was Ramadhan, we (with other two friends who is also students teacher) had chance to have iftar with all students in Dewan Selera. On second day (21/7), all three of us were asked to looked and have chit chat with form 3 students in their quarantine room (Dewan Seri Mahkota) before they take their trial PT3 oral test. We also had meeting John Hope at 10 a.m.. We briefly talked about the assignment and how things going on with us. Shortly after the meeting, we met with Dr. Hamzan (the principal) talked about the expectation, and if we need any assistant on anything don't hesitate to ask, this include any monetary budget needed. Third day of this practicum (22/7) is quite interesting since this was the first time I met my mentor's class 4B (Bergonia) . I was thinking to make this as my first observation, but since they were only made Raya card, I decided not to. My mentor acknowledged my present in the classroom. On that day, I also met with 5E (Vanda), as my mentor's asked me to meet the students without her presents. The students were nice and we had some ice breaking session, their level of proficiency is slightly above average. They were not afraid to talk in English, but shy. Maybe because this the first time we meet. I shared some experience as a NZ student, hoping it will inspire them to study oversea as well. the original idea before entering this class was to make them design Raya card, but they refuse because they had been doing this for the past four years. so decided to play a game. We played truth or dare. Just before we finish the game, there was one boy who teased his classmate till she cried, the other classmates demand him to apologize, and he did, although when i asked that girl, she still did not forgive her classmate. In this class I also knew about the SPMRM, the certificate that allow them to fly oversea before the official SPM result is out. on the very last day before we had our raya holiday, I met with form 2B. They watched Despicable Me with Kak Arfah (my mentor). I also met with 3B and have chit chat with them, since I entered the class 10 minutes before the class end i have not got chance to do ice breaking session with them. Last day (24/7)  I had chance to enter 4B class and made them to remade Raya song and they had to sing their remade Raya song in front of the class. The four days experience in MRSM before Raya ended well. Looking forward for classes after Raya.