The best lesson I had was the most challenging one I ever had. It was a very interesting one in the sense that students were very excited throughout the whole lesson. But I was raising my voice throughout the whole lesson to keep the noise level down. It Is a Secondary 3 Normal Academic Class and students get very bored if they are given dry lessons. Some will easily fall asleep while a few others will doze off without any regard to the teacher in front. A couple of students tend to fidget around in their seats and chat with the peers beside them. Well, I was surprised to know that the class monitor is the one with serious discipline problems. Nevertheless, I adore the class students because they were nicer compared to some of the Express students I was teaching.
To conduct the particular lesson, I first took their interests into consideration. Basically, anything that doesn’t interest them will not stay in their memory for too long. When I started my practicum, one of the last music legends passed away. Yes, I am referring to Michael Jackson. And out of a sudden MJ was very popular among the students. To make the lesson interesting, I decided to incorporate one of Michael Jackson’s music videos.
The theme of the lesson was preserving the environment and protecting endangered species. According to the scheme of work, I had to cover proposal writing. With consultation from my CT, Mdm Sathiya, I designed a series of lessons, in which students will write a proposal to our school principal to adopt an endangered species from the Singapore Zoological Gardens
The first lesson’s objectives were as follows. Students will be able to understand the structure of proposal writing.
As a trigger, I used the ‘Earth Song’ music video to introduce them to the topic of protecting endangered species. Students took down details from the music video using a worksheet template that I gave them. After the video, students will write what they know and what they need to know about endangered species using a KWL worksheet. After which during the main lesson, I taught them the structure of proposal writing using the model of the burger. These activities took up the 2 periods.
One of the things that went well with the lesson was the music video. Students interests were aroused with the captivating images it presented and it really set them thinking. The KWL worksheet also made it easier for them to know what they had to research on and it was easier to transit to the next lesson, where they will do research on the animal assigned to their group in the computer lab.
As to the structure of the proposal writing, students were able to understand it easily because I made a comparison to letter writing, which I covered in the earlier lesson and the use of burger model once again aided their understanding. The problems according to my CT were that I could have used made good use of the slides as I rushed them slightly. The model that I showed them for proposal writing could have been improved.
To conduct the particular lesson, I first took their interests into consideration. Basically, anything that doesn’t interest them will not stay in their memory for too long. When I started my practicum, one of the last music legends passed away. Yes, I am referring to Michael Jackson. And out of a sudden MJ was very popular among the students. To make the lesson interesting, I decided to incorporate one of Michael Jackson’s music videos.
The theme of the lesson was preserving the environment and protecting endangered species. According to the scheme of work, I had to cover proposal writing. With consultation from my CT, Mdm Sathiya, I designed a series of lessons, in which students will write a proposal to our school principal to adopt an endangered species from the Singapore Zoological Gardens
The first lesson’s objectives were as follows. Students will be able to understand the structure of proposal writing.
As a trigger, I used the ‘Earth Song’ music video to introduce them to the topic of protecting endangered species. Students took down details from the music video using a worksheet template that I gave them. After the video, students will write what they know and what they need to know about endangered species using a KWL worksheet. After which during the main lesson, I taught them the structure of proposal writing using the model of the burger. These activities took up the 2 periods.
One of the things that went well with the lesson was the music video. Students interests were aroused with the captivating images it presented and it really set them thinking. The KWL worksheet also made it easier for them to know what they had to research on and it was easier to transit to the next lesson, where they will do research on the animal assigned to their group in the computer lab.
As to the structure of the proposal writing, students were able to understand it easily because I made a comparison to letter writing, which I covered in the earlier lesson and the use of burger model once again aided their understanding. The problems according to my CT were that I could have used made good use of the slides as I rushed them slightly. The model that I showed them for proposal writing could have been improved.
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