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Theme Three( Creating Learning Environment)

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Theme Three( Creating Learning Environment)

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At the beginning of the third part, the teacher described the learning environment. What I realized was creating a good learning environment for the learner. It is important to work on it and have a (safe and healthy) environment so that the learner feels part of the group and knows they are connected to them.   The learning environment is very important such as building, classrooms, teachers' interactions with students, students' interactions with each other, and it has to availability of school supplies in the hall. And we discussed about student life outside of school which affected students such as family stability and economic situation. Connect the student to the process. the student and the teacher are together, so that the student does not feel separate from the subject.

Creatin learning environment: creating a classroom community and culture remains as another necessary and essential aspect when fostering a safe learning environment. This theme focuses on
establishing a supportive learning culture. Each member of the learning community
should have the feeling of connectedness.

Learning Outcomes: Allow students to speak and teach, which is very important. Give students an email to keep in touch with the teacher.

Innovative Environment in the Higher Education (HE): Encourages active learning, build bridges between theory and practice, establishes learning communities, and  empowers students and connect them to their education.

Personal Learning Environment (PLE):
It covers everything that leads to learning, and you can assess it at any time, as in technology applications (google classroom). Each application can create a perfect environment for student learning.

Characteristics of Effective Learning Environments: I belive that, all these things affect the environment you create:
Give the students time to ask questions and have questions, get different ideas from different opinions, using different teaching methods, prepare to organize the learning environment, which is very important, the assessment should be natural and student should not be punished, have a small number of students in the class, and how to assess students in exams  that use several different types so that students can succeed.

Teaching strategies to keep the class interesting:
Using technology, connect  lessons to the student's real life li, e take a trip to different location ( lab, factory, and field trip), the other party must have an opinion and the matter must not be one-sided, and it should be interesting and not just talk.

Techniques for Motivating Learners:
Goal setting, individual's needs, a sense of success and achievement, rewards, including grades and praise, establishing good relationship between students and teacher so as not to cause loss of classroom management, repeat the old lesson briefly at the beginning of the new lesson and involving students.

In the last lesson of this module with Dr. Karwan, we learned a lot that every university teacher should have a good background before entering university: there are several committees within the university, there are college committees and departmental committees, which are more important to teachers. These include the Examination, Quality and Scientific Assurance Committee, the Education Development Committee, the Absences Committee and the Health and Safety Committee. Each of these committees governs the affairs of the department. We also learned some information about mini sheet and master sheet.

At the end of this module we received a lot of information to start our future life in the university, and we got a good experience with the students from the beginning to the end of the module was enjoyable, interesting and useful for me.

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In this theme, there are more items that I understood. Why do we assess? It is important to each teaching method should be evaluated to see if the goal has been achieved. Student assessment is generally like feedback and helps students learn. How much information has the student gained. Also, Certificates are awarded on the basis of learning.
What do we assess? Assessment should be based on several main criteria such as (knowing, doing, being).

How well does our assessment work (Characteristics of Assessment Tools)?
(Reliability, Validity, and Educational impact): reliability it mean distinguish between levels, the questions should be difficult, medium and easy. Validity is measures the characteristics (like knowledge, and skills. While educational impact is relation between evaluation and learning.

When do we assess?
Here is the time and type of the assessment has determined. Which, assessment of learning (summative): at the end of the course in order to see how much knowledge and skills the student has acquired. Assessment for learning
(formative) this type is done throughout the course. Assessment as learning
(self and peer) how does the student evaluate himself?

Pedagogical change in assessment:
Assessment in old way was manage and control, exam days were different from school days, just teacher was ability to assess the student. Exam the only method. Teachers plan and decide the assessment. Assessment in classroom.

But in new way it's not, it's in one package (exam and learning). At the same time, student has ability to assess teacher in order to for the teacher receive comments and work on himself. Different method and tools to assess. Student participate in planning their own assessment. Assessment in real life situation.

Good practice: Jobs should not be individual jobs, at start the learning process  should be talk with your student about the learning out come and assessment practice, and say them propose new ways of making evidence.

After all this, the teacher explained the types of assessment. What I understood was that there are many ways to assess such as, (diagnostic, formative, summative, confirmative, norm-referenced, criterion- referenced, ipsative assessment, interim/benchmark.

Assessment Methods/Tools: what are assessment tools is the strategies, techniques, and instruments used for collecting information to determine
learners’ level of achieving the set learning outcomes.

Why is it important to use multiple methods? to help the student for more learning and they don't have stress about the assessment, and student ability to pass in assessment.

What is an assessment (methods)
“map”/matrix? It is a tool used to match the
learner’s learning outcomes with
assessment methods. This process
ensures that all learning outcomes will be
assessed by means of a variety of
methods. Completing such a
“map”/matrix may assist in the
development of comprehensive and
effective assessment plans.

What are direct and indirect methods of assessment?  direct assessment, like quiz, presentation, academic report, project, teamwork, workshop, paper exam.
However, indirect assessment, like questionary.

Guidelines for Selecting Assessment Methods: Is student understand the  general information.
Assessment of Knowledge: it leads to a decision to be made about whether a student is fit to practice or not.  In this way I understood to assess knowledge should be depend on multiple-choice questions,
short answer questions (Fill-in-the-blank ),
single essay questions, modified essay questions, oral presentation, cases and open problems, group projects, poster sessions, direct observation questionnaires, learning logs/report, assay, and knowledge.

Assessment of Performance: this assessment is about student can apply the subject or not? is student can do work? it means ability practically. Assessment for Case studies ( real life case), project based, learning (PBL), field trips,  lab experimentation, and graduation projects.

Assessment of Attitude: does the student like the subject or not? it has two types you assess yourself, for example you assess yourself about one week to know strong point and weak point, which it helps  to the student work on this.

Purposes of self-assessment: it helps student to improve himself.

360-Degree Feedback: if we want to assess my friend, it should be at the beginning assess positive point, the assess negative point in order to do not disturb the student's environment.

GC Assessment: Rubric: what is rubric? it is an evaluation criterion. A rubric is a scoring guide that helps teachers evaluate student
performance, based on a range of criteria. A rubric lists the criteria, or characteristics, that student work should exhibit and describes specific quality levels for those criteria. It has two types are holistic and analytic.

Performance Rubric: I understood the job that exists can be divided into several parts , each parts has own score on several conditions. This method used to graduation project, report, and field trip.

Why rubric: teacher should be tells the students that assess depend on many points, it means teacher can not emotion mix it together with. Student does not say that his grate is low, student performance will be good, it is far from the student's personal opinion, student will be feel opinion received, and it can be easily assessed.

Then the teacher gave us each group type of grading  rubric our group field trip.
field trip is a trip by students to gain firsthand knowledge away from the classroom, as to a museum, factory, geological area, or environment of certain plants and animals. Or a trip by a scholar or researcher to gather data firsthand, as to a geological, archaeological, anthropological, or other site. And at the end of the lesson I learned how to grade students fairly and without mixing my personal opinions if I teach at university in the future.

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We started a new module on 4/6/2023 called Innovative Pedagogical Method and Assessment Tools. Initially M. Miran explained what we are learning in this module. This module consists of three main parts ( Teaching Method, Assessment Tools, and Creating Learning Environment).
Theme one : Teaching Method

At the beginning of the lesson, the teacher illustrated how to make an effective lesson or please let there be no negative feelings so that we can enjoy the time. Then, the teacher  asked about what the pedagogy means to you that we will learn from this module. As a students, we discussed among ourselves and I understood that pedagogy is about think, pair, and share, it means after thinking, I discuss it with my group, then we share common opinions with classmates. In general, I learned that pedagogy is the interaction between teachers and students during the learning process. What happens is that the pedagogy and the classroom become active and the student is responsible for learning. In general, we learned that the old module assessment is exam although it does not have to be bad. But in new module, the assessment supports the learning process.

After that, the teacher explained how to make an effective lesson? I understood from the lesson that there are several reasons for this such as the teacher's movements and voice in the classroom, the teacher's expertise in the subject, using technology in different ways, creating dialogue among students, being able to control his work and class, the teacher should be loud and low, the design of the slides is important, time management, eye contact.
Later, we  discussed about  some of the teaching methods:
Seminar are generally of two types, either general or specific. Specific is more for a specific type of specialty. Some of the topic are new and are meant to introduce new ideas. But in universities, they are more updated. And, it is presented between 15 to 20 minutes. Seminars are not like lectures, they must be within your field, and you will discuss a topic. It must be stated in general terms, and you must not go into details.

Assignment: to write assignment, Students must be given a topic, generally a student guide on what to write, and reference be given to students.

Graduation project: content by the topic, this is an independent model, an independent work, it takes a lot of time, for these reasons it needs good evaluation.

Workshop: before the workshop, the goal should be defined, there is a practical section in which participants participate, which is more educational. In order to reach a conclusion participants must be relevant to the topic. Some times it is to raise awareness among those working on the subject, to set guideline for a  a disaster in the future.  On the day of the workshop, people gather and questions are raised, discussions are held.

Fish-bowel learning: there are two groups in this teaching method the inner circle and outer circle, also there is moderator who manages the groups. Inner circle discuss the topic, while the second group  only a listener and does not argue. This method involves four students entering the debate and the students around them only writing notes. After a while, one student leaves and a new one enters. In my opinion,  this teaching method is very interested because it is completely student-centered and the student's role is very active, also  it forces the students to listen carefully and participate in the discussion.

Authentic Learning: this learning means practicing the information in real life, which means that the student crates a real reality for the student for instance a field trip or scientific trip. The students sees things with his own eyes and learns more.

Gamification and Game Based Learning: Studying is not fun but it can be made fun, different packages can be used.

Flipped Learning: if the teacher gives the subject to the student to next lesson, it leads  to   students play role of the teachers, also students will consider themselves the owner of the job, then learn team work and team study. In this way students can demonstrate personal abilities in expression and search by the things.

Traditional Learning: it tell us what we learn and it learn how to solve the problem.

FLIPPED:  problem Based Learning: problem is given to the student but before must be essential about the topic given to the student, next day each student find different ways it leads to student different in thinking and innovation.

Guide Line for PBL: what is questions? what is the problems? why is problem? make a plan by different way (what have people done, why do not they successful). Resources are important and giving resources to student. It is important that the teacher tells the student what he  is want.

After the teacher explained each of these methods, each group discussion a teaching method that we liked through seminars.

We held a presentation on Tuesday, June 13, 2023, on teaching methods in the innovative pedagogy model and several presentations were presented by students.

Jigsaw method in teaching: this approach about collection of various pieces that come together to make  a complete picture, and its learning strategy allows individuals or small groups to become responsible for subcategory of large topic. Then each group or individual has responsibility to teach it to rest the class.

Class Discussion of Teaching Method:  This approach was important to me because students build on each other’s ideas
and provide suggestions to each other.
They usually involve dividing learners into groups of 3-5 and providing 1 or more
questions or topics to discuss. And,  discussion topics should not be too specific or too broad. Also, an excellent method of connecting with others in the class.
However, it helps students see different perspectives on topics. this approach has
disadvantages are that it can be hard to stay on task and keep up with the
discussion. Furthermore, some students may not have time to contribute.

Problem Solving and Case Study Method in Teaching: both methods have their strengths and weaknesses and are useful for different learning objectives. Problem-solving focuses more on creating solutions, while the case study method is more focused on understanding the problem's context and learning from others who have solved similar problems. Choosing the right approach requires a deep understanding of the material and a clear definition of learning objectives. Effective teaching requires a balance of both methods properly leveraged for the right learning objectives.

Blended Learning:
Using blended learning models keep in mind that its aim is to combines the strategies of both traditional and online learning methods in order to give your students are more engaging learning experience this method useful for teaching, but it is not interested for me.

Academic Field Trip: this method of teaching is effective, in groups, students take a trip to learn something. This approach was effective for me because the student has direct contact with the subjects, strengthens social skills, activates learning skills. There are two types (nature, culture). The advantages are that students love to study more because they see things realistically and are able to understand more. The disadvantages are that it is expensive and difficult to control so many students.

Field Exercises: This presentation was my group. I think we were successful in most aspects of the presentation. And our teaching method is successful method and the student can be the center. This approach was effective for me because the student has direct contact with the subjects, strengthens social skills, activates learning skills

Developing of Low Cost and Free Materials: It is an effective way to provide students with the opportunity to learn new things through acting. The teacher's role here is to set a number for the students to play. It is an enjoyable approach because it is playful and can be used by adults and children  This presentation was generally suitable for primary school children, more an educational teaching method, less of student center.