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Yes, welcome back to UiTM and welcome new semester. On our very first class of EDU555 that will be teach by Sir Furkan and Sir Hisham.I am so excited about this class because of:
1) NO FINAL!!! I REPEAT! NO FINAL!
2) we're all gonna do our micro teaching
3) we're all gonna play 'cikgu-cikgu' in the class.
As usual, Sir started the very first class with briefing what's EDU555 all about, the objectives, learning outcomes and the scheme of work. On the first day of this class, i know that this subject will helping me to prepare myself to be a good teacher and i feel fire up! to learn this subject
The class is divided into two, two hours each on monday and tuesday.

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On the first lecture, we learned about what is curriculum and instruction. We go deeper study their definition.
Curriculum refers to the plan and document. While instruction, refers to the methods of presenting or implementing the curriculum content or plan. Curriculum can be subdivided into 4; lesson plan, scheme of work, syllabus and curriculum as for the purpose of instruction. We'd also learned about lesson plan a bit. Sir guided us about choosing the topic to be teach in the class. And so how to write the lesson plan

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We've been taught about teacher's role in curriculum development and Tyler's model as the models of the curriculum construction. Basically we had 4 models of curriculum construction  but in this chapter we only learn about the Tyler's model. Tyler's model is propose by Ralph Tyler during 1950. The model involves 4 stages; objectives, content, method and evaluation. The last part of this chapter is about qualities of an effective teacher that propose by Joan Dean, 2000.

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Interaction model is been introduced. Or other name for interaction model is dynamic model. We study about the strength and weaknesses of this model. Next model is Taba's model. There are 7 steps in Taba's model. The last model is contemporary model. This contemporary model is consists of 5 steps. On the other class, we've been discussing about the learning outcomes. Which one need to select and is it enough due to the time presenting.

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In this week, we had learned about the curriculum evaluation. We studied about the definition, types and so the evaluation in the curriculum development. CIPP model is introduced for evaluation. There are 4 types of evaluation in the framework model in curriculum evaluation. The 4 types are context evaluation, input evaluation, process evaluation and product evaluation. Then, we learned the chapter 5 also as the chapter 4 finished earlier. Another 1 week ahead before the micro teaching session begin and lots of us having trouble with the set induction. We do not know how to be compact but meaningful. So sir shown us the example of the set induction.

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In the lecture, we learned about the curriculum development division (CDD). In this chapter, we were discussing about the roles and function, national education philosophy, curriculum cycle, curriculum structure and emphases, and curriculum review- moving forward. We learned about the syllabus. The syllabus content, types, and format

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We were having a test 1. The micro teaching started this week with Qamarul, Dayah, Syaza and Teha. These group did a good job for the starter micro teaching even tho they were the first group.

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As i will be teaching in the week 9, i've met sir Furkan for the consultant about the lesson plan. Alhamdulillah everything is fine, just need a little touch up for that. A lot of eyes opening words from sir that make me realize how to perform a good teaching.

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This is the week! my turn on doing micro teaching. I was so nervous till i forgot some of my words and i did not do engagement a lot with the students.

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This week, chapter lesson plan. Lesson plan consists of 4 elements; the objectives and the intended learning outcomes, the contents, the methods of organizing the content and the activities, and lastly, the conclusion and follow up activities.

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This week, thinking skills is divided into two which are creative thinking skills and critical thinking skills. Next, learning how to learn is to acquire the habit of independent learning. Moreover, iformation and communications technology (ICT) skills, values and citizenship and multiple intelligneces.

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The chapter instructional objectives is what we had learned. It is important because it helping the teachers, administrators and society to assess the products of the system. Rober Mager (1962) propose "preparing instructional objectives" and objectives need to be specific in terms of student behavior, testing situation and performance criteria. Grondlund (1970) suggested that there are 2 levels of objectives; general and specific. Next, Benjamin Bloom (1956) proposed the most helpful guide for the behavior classification

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The last chapter we learned is instructional materials. In this chapter, there is ASSURE model. ASSURE is stand for
A- Analyze learners
S- State objectives
S- Select methods, media and materials
U- Utilize media and materials
R-  Require learner participation
E- Evaluate and revise

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In the last class, we were doing a recap of what we had been learning in the class. And an open session for those who wanna share about what the feel about this class. Lots of them shared that this class have been changing them into a better person and having more confidence talking in front. The very last of micro teaching is ended.