The school that I had chosen is Sekolah Kebangsaan Labu Ulu Batu 8 at Labu, Negeri Sembilan. The head mistress of the school is Puan Suhailah bt. Kasim. There are 423 students in the school include the kinder garden students. Students are dividing into 2 classes in each year namely Bestari and Pintar.
I am request to observe with the science subject teachers and English subject teachers during the 2 weeks ‘school based experience’ programmed. In both subjects, I am observing Cikgu Nurazlin who teaching science for year 4P and English for year 5P, Cikgu Salwa who teaching science for year 5B and English for year 4B and 5B and Cikgu Rohayah who teaching science for year 3B.
Unfortunately, I have 1 week only to do my observation of classroom practices due to the school will have the monthly examination by next week. By that reason, most of the teachers are doing revision or exercises with the students.
I introduced myself to the teachers and students during the assembly. After the assembly, I took the opportunity to observe the school surrounding. The school is very well equipped and there has a science laboratory in the school and also the school has such nice environment surrounding.
By the way, I have a chance to observe a class of year 5 in science subject before end of the school. Teacher had a discussion on the exercise from the exercise book with the students.
Before the discussion was started, teacher was checked whether the exercises were done by the students. The topic that they were discussed is food chain and food web. Students answered the questions that read out by the teacher and copied the answer from the board after they had discussed it.
Some students were show actively during the discussion by put their hands up for answer the questions but there were also had students who not really sure about their answer by guessing it.
Teacher was gave the definition about producer, consumer, increasing and decreasing to the students but I felt that it was much more to a translation on that words because of there was no more any details about the meaning of words.
Students were done the predicting skill based on the questions from the exercise book, for example: prediction on the trend of the number of caterpillars, what is the number of birds in week 5. There was much less to activate the thinking process by the students with discussion more detail or deeply apart from the questions on the exercise book.
Besides, I have a doubt while teacher was gave a wrong answer to the students (I’m sure the answer given by the teacher was incorrect). What should I do? Discuss with the teacher after the class? Should I? Maybe I need an advice from my lecturer.
By the end of the class, teacher was gave a homework to the students. From the discussion was conducted by the teacher, the questioning techniques presented by the teacher seem that it were convergent questions which was a low order convergent question level through recall of information.
So, this is my reflection for my first day of observation in the school. Hope you all can give any comments for my reflection or any suggestions that should I improve while I still looking the right way to do my observation.
Before the discussion was started, teacher was checked whether the exercises were done by the students. The topic that they were discussed is food chain and food web. Students answered the questions that read out by the teacher and copied the answer from the board after they had discussed it.
Some students were show actively during the discussion by put their hands up for answer the questions but there were also had students who not really sure about their answer by guessing it.
Teacher was gave the definition about producer, consumer, increasing and decreasing to the students but I felt that it was much more to a translation on that words because of there was no more any details about the meaning of words.
Students were done the predicting skill based on the questions from the exercise book, for example: prediction on the trend of the number of caterpillars, what is the number of birds in week 5. There was much less to activate the thinking process by the students with discussion more detail or deeply apart from the questions on the exercise book.
Besides, I have a doubt while teacher was gave a wrong answer to the students (I’m sure the answer given by the teacher was incorrect). What should I do? Discuss with the teacher after the class? Should I? Maybe I need an advice from my lecturer.
By the end of the class, teacher was gave a homework to the students. From the discussion was conducted by the teacher, the questioning techniques presented by the teacher seem that it were convergent questions which was a low order convergent question level through recall of information.
So, this is my reflection for my first day of observation in the school. Hope you all can give any comments for my reflection or any suggestions that should I improve while I still looking the right way to do my observation.
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ReplyDeleteIt is good thing that you should reschedule your tasks. You can rearrange the sbe tasks so that it suits the school environment... as long as you complete your tasks.
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well, i just observe the class as much as i could coz next week the whole school will be in exam week. after that i will do matching between the observations and the tasks were given. it is not necessary to follow the steps of tasks.
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