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My First Class of EDU555 (Curriculum and Instruction)

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My First Class of EDU555 (Curriculum and Instruction)

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In this semester, we take a course name Curriculum and Instruction. Our first class is on Monday, 3 September 2018 at DKF2, Faculty of Pharmacy. Together with students from other class and course, we were given the introduction about this course from our instructor which is Sir Muhamad Furkan Bin Mat Salleh. We do not have final exam for this course but we have a few assignment to get an A for this course. We will have 2 test, microteaching, article review, e-portfolio and course design. Sir Furkan and Sir Hisyam give us a copy of assessment guideline and evaluation rubric for our assignment through out this semester. They also remind us that we need to give back the evaluation rubric. We were given first task which is we need to find an article that relate to curriculum and instruction and make an article review. Our title of the article must be not the same with our classmate and we have to do it for 3 pages. The due date of this assignment is on third week. We need to check the article with our instructor on the first week to make sure we choose the right article and does not have the same title as our classmate. Sir Furkan also give a briefing about our group project which is course design project. During the class, Sir Furkan asked about the characteristic of effective teacher and taught us about how to become and effective teacher. Last but not least, Sir Furkan had showed us quotes and he asked what we understand about the quotes. I will share the quotes in the picture below and maybe you can think and share about what you understand form the quotes.

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On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 is our second class. The class was quite different this time because its only our class and it was called tutorial class. It was more fun because we can interact more effectively. Firstly, sir Furkan taught us about Blooms Taxonomy. There are 6 level in cognitive domain of Blooms Taxonomy which is knowledge, understand, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Next, our instructor show us DSKP and curriculum specification for form 1 until form 5. We have to print it out for our guideline and reference. There are learning outcome in the DSKP and we discussed about the time management to achieve the learning outcome. We also learned the term 'Rancangan Pengajaran Tahunan' and 'Rancangan Pengajaran Harian'. Sir Furkan also shared his teaching experience and how he handled his student. Before end the class, Sir Furkan showed us on how to find a good article and he also check our article that we have choose for the article review. My article that I have choose had been approved. Lastly, he remind us to think about the topic that we want to teach during our microteaching.

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On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 our class was postponed because our instructor had a curriculum review workshop. I was so sad because I have get ready for the class early and suddenly our instructor inform us that he had to postponed the class. Therefore, I have decided to write this entry and read the article that I have choose before. I am planning to do article review because the due date is next week. Besides, I was looking for the topic for microteaching and do some research about the topic. I had decide to teach on understanding Inheritance and go through the learning outcome. I am also doing research about other topic that may be more interesting for me.

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This week is already week 3. We do not have class on Monday because of public holiday to celebrate Hari Malaysia. Hence, we only have class on Wednesday,19 September 2018. We have learn  on how to planning the lesson plan. Sir Furkan told us that the lesson plan at school may be more simpler and vary depends on the school. We are given the soft copy of RPH(lesson plan) and sir taught us how to complete the lesson plan step by step. He remind us to always write the day,date and title of the topic that we want to teach our student every time after we have done our induction set or after the introduction. This is to make sure the students can focus on the topic and are on the right track. He also told us to divide the whiteboard into several section to make sure the notes that we write on the whiteboard is organize and easy for our students to understand. Furthermore, sir show us some example on how to do set induction to grab student's interest. Next, we learn about new things which is success criteria. It was almost the same with learning outcome but it actually have some differences. Success criteria is more detailed than the lesson plan. its must be show to the student and it can be used as a guideline to assess our students. Lastly, he show us on how to wrap up the class. Before end the class, he gave us a tasks which is we must fill up our lesson plan. Here is the example of the lesson plan.

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Qualities of an Effective Teacher (Week 4)

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Qualities of an Effective Teacher (Week 4)

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On Monday, 24 September 2018. Sir Furkan give a lecture about the qualities of an effective teacher. One of the qualities of an effective teachers is teacher need to be prepared and have clear goals for teaching. Since we have start doing our lesson plan, i can see that lesson plan was one of the preparation to be an effective teacher. This is because we can see a clear goal of teaching and we know what we want to teach and how the class will be conducted. Besides, we have to physically and mentally prepared. Hence, the classroom will be well-organised, ordered and attractive. We also learn about curriculum and instruction more detail. We also get to understand the flow of education system in Malaysia and we know the aim of Curriculum Development Division(CDD). Next, we study about curriculum development that consist of 3 main stages which is planning, implementation and evaluation. In this course, there are 4 models of curriculum construction will be discussed and we have go through 1 of the curriculum construction which is The Tyler's or Objective model. On Wednesday, Sir Furkan explain to us again about development set of our lesson plan and he checked our progress of lesson plan to make sure we follow the instruction correctly.

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On October 1, Sir Furkan continue the lecture about Taba's Model and instruction model. Those model was a little bit difference with the Tyler's model. Instructional model is more flexible than Tyler's model because it allows the curriculum developer to change the order of planning, and thus, not restricted by a fixed procedure. Next, Taba's consist of 7 steps that begin with diagnosis of needs. in Taba's model, it not start with the objective. As she believe that the demand for education in a particular society should be study first while Tyler's model lays the main stress on aims, evaluation and control. One of the strength of Taba's model that i like is the one who teaching the curriculum will develop it. therefore, it was easier for them to understand and implement the curriculum. Besides, we learn about contemporary model that consist of 5 steps. During tutorial class on the Wednesday, sir taught us on how to complete our lesson plan for the micro-teaching. We need to refer the DSKP to fill up the Elemen Merentas Kurikulum that suitable to our topic and subtopic.

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Mega Scitech 2018 and Motivational Talk (Week 6)

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Mega Scitech 2018 and Motivational Talk (Week 6)

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On October 8, we do not have lecture because we have Mega Scitech. All science student was given task to handle the program. Its involve many school around Malaysia and there are many type of event such as Science Drama, school lab, solar car and solar boat, paper plane and others. On Wednsday, October 10, sir Furkan gave us some motivational talk. He start by asking us whether we still have desire to be a teacher or not and the reason why. As for me, i still want to be a teacher because i think i like teaching even though sometimes i am not feeling confident because of my grammar. Therefore, i think i have to practice to try use English language when talking to my friends. Sir Furkan share his experience and he remind us not to give up and always keep trying. i feel inspired with him. even my classmates said they was touched when they hear what sir has said. Last but not least, Sir Furkan give some tips to the students that had to do micro-teaching on week 7

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First lecture with Sir Hisyam and First week of Microteaching (Week 7)

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First lecture with Sir Hisyam and First week of Microteaching (Week 7)

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On October 15, was our first lecture with Sir Hisyam. He had cover 2 chapter which is curriculum evaluation and curriculum development division. Curriculum evaluation is importance to review and revise the existed curriculum based on its strength and weakness. These help to maintain and sustain the quality and quantity of the program. Next, we also study about the CIPP model. On Wednesday, our class start our first microteaching, there are many things that i learn during the process of microteaching. For example, i think that well preparation is most important things before doing the microteahing and we need to be flexible by vary the teaching delivery method and activities. Furthermore, time management i also important. i can see that some of my classmate are exceed from the time given for us and some of them are too fast. The important things that we need to do during that was happen is we need to think of other plan to make sure the class is run smoothly. Besides, the teaching aid plays an important role. It helps to attract students. Next, Sir Furkan told us to move a a little bit to decrease the nervous feelings.

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On Monday, October 22 we had our very first test for this course. it contains 15 MCQ question and 4 structure question. It covers 4 chapters. The test is quite confusing for me. For the MCQ question, i think the stem is quite long and it was so hard for me to understand what is the question about. Besides, the multiple choice for the answer is so tricky. For the structure question, i think it was just nice and demand our critical thinking. The time allocate for the test is sufficient.

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On Wednesday, October 25 we had our microteaching in Laboratory 2 in the morning. I think it was quite challenging for my fellow friends that have microteaching on that day. surprisingly, they manage to do their microteaching excellently. They have shown their characteristic of effective teacher which is flexible. The voice projection also has improved than last week but still need to practice more. As for the teaching aid, they have a very creative and interesting teaching aid especially Zafri. I think we can teach better in the future with a good teaching aid because it really helps students to understand more and see clearly the process. Besides, their time management is quite good and i think we need to learn it from them how to manage to settle the microteaching within 20 minutes smoothly. At the end of the session,Sir Furkan give some comments about their presentation. Hence, we have to improved it in the future. Sir Furkan also give chance to our classmates to give some comments for them. Sir also asked everyone to write a comment for each individual that have done their microteaching to help them improve their teaching method and what so on. Zafri also personally advise that we need to really prepared and be flexible. He said that he plan for a new set induction just in the morning to make it more related and easier to understand.

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On Monday, 12 September is our last lecture with Sir Hisyam. We had learn 2 topics which is Instructional Objective and Instructional Materials: Principles, Design and Utilization. Objective must be observable and measurable. Robert Mager emphasized that objectives of learning need to be specific in term of student behavior, testing situation and performance criteria. We also cover on Bloom's Instructional Objective that have been divided into 3 domains which is cognitive domain, psychomotor domain and affective domain. Sir explain to us on every domain. Next, we learn on the need of using instructional material that will help effective learning by providing students the opportunity to see, hear and do. We need to learn and practice using technologies nowadays to make our class more interesting and grab students attention to learn. It also helps to promote a better understanding on what they have learned. Besides, we learn about ASSURE MODEL that can be guidance for teacher to utilize and use instructional material and assure effective use of audiovisual aids in instruction. Lastly, he remind us about test 2 and he want to make a microteaching starting from Monday next week.

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On Wednesday, 14 September is my turn for microteaching. I teach Biology Form 5 on the topic of Inheritance. On that day, I am so nervous but I managed to calm down myself. During the set induction, I feel like I cannot control my nervous and I feel like always preventing from making eye contact with everyone. I just look at some people that I comfortable with to help me relax. Next I start give my introduction and start put up my teaching aid and, write the day and date and the topic. Then I start teach about the ABO Blood group system. I choose to teach on how to identify the characteristic of every blood and I asks my students to give me the answer. Therefore, I can see how far their understanding on what I have taught them. Some of them are getting the answer and some of them are still blur. I am getting comfortable in the class and forget my nervous. All off my plan running smoothly from set induction to the conclusion. During the students asks question, Sir Furkan mention that I look not confident to answer the question. I think its true because I am trying to recall what I remember and I always think is it true or not. But I manage to answer the question with the right answer. On the supervisor's comment it states that I have a commendable teaching aid and my conclusion were going thoroughly. Unfortunately, Sir Furkan want me to improve in term of voice projection and enthusiasm in my delivery. I also need to give equal attention to audience. I admit that sometimes I forgot to make engagement with the students that seat and the back but I had try to make engagement during the game to make sure they are truly understand on what I am teaching. I think I can do better and I will improve my teaching skills in the future.

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On Monday, we have the microteaching at lab 2. There are 4 teachers which is izzati, Wan, Syafiqa and Leona. We also see the microteaching of Hawa from class A. They are very good and have done better then the week before. i love Izzati's teaching aid so much and how she delivered it. It's so enjoyable. As for Leona, i think she need to improve her teaching skills because she talk to fast and sometimes i even do not understand whether she ask question or she teach the fact. On Wednesday, we have another 6 people for microteaching. I can see that there have common characteristic and learned a lot from the past microteaching. and i love their teaching aid because it was interesting and help us to more easy to understand. at the end of class, we have the feedback sharing. some of my classmate give review about the goods and what to improved. lastly, sir Furkan give the briefing on our course design project.

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On Monday, November 26 There are 5 of my classmate doing their micro teaching. They looks so presentable and look so confident and enjoy their teaching process. I love all of their topic because it it easy to understand and how they delivered it was so interesting with their own way. But i think that they can do more than that especially Saiful. It seems that he repeat the same subtopic again and again and he said that he does not have enough time to do his activity. As for me, i think he do have time but he do not know how to manage the time. At the end of the session, our classmates and Sir Furkan give comment that really help to improved their self also our self. Next, Sir Furkan give a briefing and explaination about the Course Design from A to Z.

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On Wednesday, November 28 we start to discuss about our course design. We make a company name Mitahara.CO. We decided to make a program name '' Healthy Food Swaps''. Our target is an adult because nowadays take a healthy diet have been a phenomenon in the world. Our objectives is to help people lose their weight, take a healthy diet with true foods and know their calories and portion of their food intake. Those really help people from disease and lose weight. There are 4 syllabus in our program. We also discuss on the questionnaire and others. We were doing the draft and divided task to do among us.