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Assalamualaikum and hye to my audience of this wall..I am Hidayah from course ED247..in this semester we gonna engage in Curriculum and Instruction course.

So,what kind of course is this actually? I bet my audience is full of curiosity right? Curriculum and Instruction course is a fundamental course for whom that study or engage in education field, especially education students. What you learn in this course?
I dont know,since this is my first class for this new semester..But, what im sure is perhaps as a student of education, in the end of this course, I would learned on how to make an effective lesson plan which is the core basic for mosy educators, I would learn about how to teach for real in the classroom, how to be presentable as an educators and how to be an effective instructors or educator. So, this will be an interesting and beneficial course for educators to be.
That will be all for the introduction.

See you in my next entry ☺️

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Article Review Assignment EDU555 (Week 2)

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Article Review Assignment EDU555 (Week 2)

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Hye..so how you all doing for this past week?
Since this is the second week of our lecture for instruction and curriculum course, we’ve been given an assignment,which is article review regarding to Instruction and Curriculum topic. So, everyone has to choose one topic on their area of study such as Biology for instruction and curriculum article. Through this article, we have to make a review or comment on that article.
What is the purpose of article review?
1. People value other opinions, and reading what another person wrote will help them decide if they like the article or if they will consider its information valuable.
2. Article reviews help journalists because they can see what people really think of their work and how they can improve.
3. This project will help improve your writing skills.
4. When an article review is written about a controversial issue or something a lot of people interested in reading about, you can get exposure for your writing and reach many people with your review.

Frankly, writing an article review makes me become a thorough reader and my writing skill is improve.

Thank you my audience.. See you next week.

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Assalamualaikum and hye..welcome to week 3. Im glad to write for this week entry. So, this week we learned how to make a lesson plan, which is a compulsory for every teacher and educators. As a future teacher or educator, I learned that teachers should have a daily lesson plan for every class. This is to make sure that teachers or educators are well prepared  before start teaching.

What is the significance of lesson plan?
Lesson plan will be your guide and map for organizing your materials that content step-by-step guide to provide a structure  essential learning.

What are the components of a lesson plan?
lesson plan comprise of goal or objective of learning, learning outcome, success criteria and the activities that related to the topic on that day.

One of the characteristic of an effective teacher is well prepared and clear in delivering the lesson. Hence, to be a well prepared teacher a lesson plan is a must.

That's all for this week entry. Good bye

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Assalamualaikum and hye my dear audience. How are you?
I bet you all must be in the pink of health as you read my entry.

Curriculum and Instruction?
What do you think about these two words? Does something across your mind?
Well, this week we learned about curriculum and instruction.
Through this class, I came t know what is the actually mean by curriculum. Curriculum is defined as a plan of study. While instruction is a process of giving instruction in a classroom and trough the process of teaching and learning.
Other than that, we also learned about the education system in Malaysian school. As a teacher, I think we should know how our education system works. Ministry of Education (MOE) as a top superior down to Jabatan Pendidikan Negara(JPN), then pass to Pegawai Pendidikan Daerah (PPD) and lastly to school.
Then, I learned the curriculum development model which is The Tyler's / Objectives model whom construct curriculum based on objectives, content, method and evaluation.

Its great to be in this class as it provide many information that useful to me as a future education.

So, this is the end of this week's entry. I hope to see you again in my next entry.

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Models of Curriculum Construction (Week 5)

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Models of Curriculum Construction (Week 5)

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Assalamualaikum and good morning. Today's weather is very sunny and i felt like want  to get an ice cream.

So, this week in the class of EDU555 we learnt about the models of curriculum construction.  We've just learn that there are 4 models of curriculum instructions which are The Tyler's / Objective model, Interaction or dynamic model, Taba's model and contemporary model. These models will be references for us to construct instruction or course design especially in to develop a new programme. The difference between these model is actually the process or the steps of implementation. In Tyler's model the steps of implementation is too rigid because we have to follow the steps in order. Meanwhile, in the interaction or dynamic model which is modified from Tyler's model the sequence of implementation is flexible, we need not to follow the steps in order. In Taba's model it is almost similar to Tyler's model but the difference is there are 7 major of steps. Based on the 3 models, the contemporary model develop 5 mojor steps of implementation that involving the feedback.
So, thats all for my entry this week.. Thank you for your time.

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Curriculum Development Division (CDD) (Week 9)

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Curriculum Development Division (CDD) (Week 9)

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Getting pump up to learn EDU555 this week? Cause this week we learned about a party that essentially crucial to educational development.
So, I bet many of us dont actually know who is the curriculum developer, who design the curriculum, who implement the curriculum.

Ever heard of Curriculum Development Division?
Yes, definitely they are the one who is responsible in design and implement the curriculum of the schools. To get more and precise information about the background of Curriculum Development Division (CDD), you can hit the link here

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I felt exhausted from the hectic week because this week too many events are going on.  A mountain of assignments to submitted and tests to be seated on. Oh yeah this week also we are having the test 1 for EDU555. I admitted that the test is quite confusing for the objective parts. However, for the subjective parts, I thought that the questions were on moderate level. It is not too easy and not too difficult for us.

Anyway, the title for this week lesson is the evaluation for curriculum. In order to know the effectiveness of a particular curriculum, we should get feedback from the outcomes of the curriculum. This could be done by evaluation of the curriculum. Evaluation of curriculum means that making judgement of desirability changes of the students and uses the information to make changes in curriculum or change the method of teaching. There are two types of evaluation which are formative and summative evaluation. the difference between these two evaluation is formative is evaluation of on going program, but for summative evaluation is evaluation at the end of the program to see the effectiveness of the program.
Hence, to make evaluation for these two types, Daniel Stufflebeam has introduced CIPP Model in 1966 for guiding formative and summative evaluation.

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Hye, we meet again.This week, Im preparing for my upcoming microteaching next week. It is quite nervous to know that my turn is number 4 for the first week of microteaching. I feel excited and anxious at the same time.

So, this week we have our consultation of lesson plan with our instructor, Sir Furkhan.  There are many parts that I have to fix. Lesson plan is very crucial to an educator or teacher as a guideline for the teaching and learning session in the class. This is to ensure that a teacher and students can achieve the goal of learning in the meantime.
After my lesson plan has been approved, I start to prepare for my teaching aid material that I will use during my microteaching.

So, thats all fot this week entry. Goodbye
See you next week.

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Now, its finally my turn to teach in front of the class. As I came into the class, my spine has felt cold from nervousness.

During my teaching and learning , I cant quite control my nervousness. My voice is shaking throughout the class. I also felt that I couldnt engage more with the students.
Overall its ok.. But I got some critics from our instructor which is time management, my teaching aid material is too small, my handwriting on the whiteboard and communication with the audiences.

Hence, in my next  microteaching I should improve my weaknesses

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Instructional Materials: Principles, Design, Utilization, and Evaluation (Week 11)

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Instructional Materials: Principles, Design, Utilization, and Evaluation (Week 11)

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Blessed and be thankful to God. This week we gonna have Prophet Muhammad's Birthday... So yeahhhh its holiday again this Tuesday.
But dont ever forget to read your notes.
so this week we learnt about exciting  title which is  instructional materials. Realize or not, back when in your school time, everytime your teacher want to start a lesson she or he will use any reference book whether it is text books, or any eligible references to guide in teaching and learning session.Maybe some teachers will prefer to bring some interesting materials such as diagrams, objects, prototype and etc... This will increase and grab students attention to learn in the class. Why do we need instructional materials?
Because we remember on average:
1) 10% of what we read
2) 20% of what we hear
3)30 % of what we see
4) 50% of what we see and hear
5) 80% of what we say
6) 90% of what we say and do

ASSURE MODEL
This model is intended to as guide to design instructional materials and assure affective use if media and materials in instruction.

A- Analyze Learners
In this context, the teachers or educators need to identify the background of learners (who are they, what knowledge, skills and attitudes )
S- State Objectives
In designing instructional materials we need to steer clear of our aim and objectives to achieve what to be measured. Well stated objectives consist of audience, behavior, conditions and degree.
S- Select methods, media and materials
U- Utilize Media and Materials
involve in teaching students how to make use of learning materials.
E- Evaluate
whether the students are learned what supposed to be learned?
R- Revise
sit back and look at the results of our evaluation and gathering.

From my experience in designing instructional materials for the past microteaching, we should considers in terms of small details, not only about the content of itself, but also need to check the font of the words. Sometimes, we dont realise the fonts are too small to be seen from the distance, this culd be a distraction to the students and loose their motivation in the class to follow your lesson. It also should be in colorful and interesting to attract students in the class to focus.

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Hello Assalamualaikum we right back after 1 week of midsem holiday. So hows your holiday?
I hope everyone enjoy your holiday.
So, Monday blues again this week. However, that is okay because we have EDU55 subject to catch up with. Can't wait to resume our lesson right?

This week, we learned about Instructional Objectives aka goals that teacher sets or want to achieve when you are giving instructions  or in teaching and leaning process. Instructional objectives make definite the direction in which teaching leads and become the focus of instructions, not only for teachers but also for students.  This instructional objectives will help teachers and students so that the process of teaching and learning wont be deviated form the main goals.

There are two format of Instructional objectives which are:
1) Mager format of instructional objectives.
2) Bloom's Instructional Objectives.

1) Mager format of Instructional objectives
Mager format of instructional objectives are said must be OBSERVABLE and MEASURABLE..This means that there are changes in terms of behaviour (using verbs that denote observable action)., testing situation (i.e under what conditions he will able to do it) and performance criteria (indicating correctness, speed, rate of response).
Mager format of instructional objectives should use precise words or specific words that can be measured specifically (i.e list down 3 examples of amphibian). Avoid using vague or general words to write instructional objectives for instances, to understand, to appreciate, to enjoy, to feel, etc..

2) Bloom's Instructional Objectives
Bloom proposed that instructional objectives should be in term of  behaviour classifications. He divided the objectives into 3 domains:
1) Cognitive domain: knowing fact and information.
2) Psychomotor domain: performing physical skills.
3) Affective domain: exhibiting persoanl attitudes.

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Alhamdulillah its finally a wrap week for microteaching. Throughout the 6 weeks of microteaching, I can see that there is a gradual improvement in terms of time manangement, beautiful and attractive instructional material, exciting activities and I want to give a big applause towards their level of confidence. Every week I can see every person's improvemet.

Upon finishing  microteaching, our instructor started to briefing about another assignment that should be done to complete this course  which is course design. Sigh...
Another assignment in this hectic week. Course design is the process and methodology of creating quality learning environments and experiences for students. Through purposeful and structured expose to instructional materials, learning activities, and interaction, students are able to access information, obtain skills, and practice higher levels of thinking.
So, basically we have to design or run our own program as a whole on what we want to achieve. Tylers Model will be a guideline to us to design the course.

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Since starting from this week there will be no class for EDU555, so we use this time to discuss and plan our course design.
Within this week we have so far discuss up to executive summary. The course or title that we will be develop is "Super Adventerous Science". This course will be targetting inland students or in the rural area of Damansara. It will be participated by primary students. One of the objective of this course is to increase student's interest in learning science subjects. There will be more programs embedded in this course

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How time fast flying. Realized or not we are already in week 14. Final exam just around the corner.
Just before we ended this course I want to give my opinion about this course.
Throughout one semester I engaged in this course, I got to learned on how to write a lesson plan properly. I came to know that lesson plan is very important in teaching and learning session as lesson plan serves as a guide to teacher and students so they will not be deviated from the main objective. I learned how to discriminate between learning objectives, learning outcomes and success criteria which is compulsory in the lesson plan.
Upon finishing lesson plan, we put lesson plan in action. Microteaching. Its good to be in this course since that we can practices being as a teacher in front of the class. I actually prefer microteaching rather than presentation in front of the class. Microteaching help me to get the real situation of teaching students as in school. Microteaching also give me chance to practice to teach in front of the class.
Beside that, I also learned to design a course. This helps me to be more like creative and critical thinking.

I recommended that maybe this course can give students more practise for microteaching but not just in the class, but in the real school. So, that we can be more comfortable and more confident in delivering our instruction. Other than that, I would recommend that course design should be done before microteaching so that there will be plenty of time to think for an idea to design the course.

In the nutshell, I enjoy the class of EDU555. Thank you a bunch for our instructor Sir Furkhan Mat Salleh for his dedication.