REALITY OF EDUCATION by Ammar Shafiq

The Beginning

ammar_shafiq29 — 2018-11-21 14:24:44 UTC

Never in my life thinking that one day I would want to become a teacher. In fact, I used to see teaching profession is lower than being a doctor. Little did I realised, if there is no teacher, there will be no doctor. But don't get me wrong, doesn't mean I don't really look up onto them that I loose my respect towards them. I respect teacher as a person who willingly to share their knowledge and have the courage to face all the hardship to educate people. Despite of being students secondary parents in school, they taught us a lot about many things including our curriculum. My journey in teaching profession or in educating people has just begun.

Mandarin As Third Language

ammar_shafiq29 — 2018-11-22 04:49:46 UTC

As a student who never learnt mandarin during childhood, it is quite difficult to actually master it. Nevertherless it is not impossible to master it. Mandarin as third language taught us about how to understand mandarin, their sentence structure, alphabet, and also their pronunciation. There are 4 test we need to complete which is listening, writting, role play and, simulation

Evaluation In Life

ammar_shafiq29 — 2018-11-22 14:49:27 UTC

In life, we need to evaluate almost everything including ourselves. Humans aren't perfect, day by day we need to evaluate ourselves of what we've done in our lives. Evaluation can be made qualitatively or quantitatively. In curriculum provided by the education faculty, we learnt to do evaluation quantitatively. There are many ways to measure it and one of it of course by conducting a survey. The curriculum also thought us on how to handle those information or raw data. Calculating mode, mean, and median are one of the way to handle the raw data to make it meaningful. In brief, mode is the data that have the highest frequency. Mean simply said as the average of the data. And median is the data that is located in the middle of an organised data.

Instructions In Life

ammar_shafiq29 — 2018-11-23 14:09:30 UTC

According to Merriam-Webster, instruction is define as a statement that describes how to do something. It is also defined as order or command. In teaching, we need instructions to deliver the information or to do something related to the information. In our daily, instruction is needed in order for us to do something that met the needs of something. As an example we need instruction to draw, we need instruction of safety in laboratory. Instruction guide us towards something that we want to achieve. During a lesson, instruction is important to keep track of our lesson, and also to well-organised our class.

Curriculum

ammar_shafiq29 — 2018-11-25 14:27:43 UTC

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, CURRICULUM is defined as the courses offered by an educational institution. It also means a set of courses constituting an area of specialization. In school, the curriculum had been set by the educational society. All the curriculum had been set according to the level of knowledge that is suitable for the generation. For sure, the curriculum is differ throughout the age. As an example, the curriculum or syllabus would be different in primary school and secondary school. Even on the higher institution, every educational institution offer different kinds of curriculum. To know more, I'll provide the link for you to dig deeper into our Malaysia curriculum system.

Aspects In Curriculum

ammar_shafiq29 — 2018-11-27 14:52:47 UTC

First of all, some people might not notice that, curriculum is not just about academic. There are things we called as hidden curriculum. What is hidden curriculum? It is a curriculum based on moral values, informal learning, and unwritten. As an example;manners. Manners is a kind of hidden curriculum where it is undocumented. The application of it could be every where. Manners should be taught in class informally because it is the way of life. We don't need any syllabus to teach them. What we need is to be the role model for them to follow.

Curriculum Development

ammar_shafiq29 — 2018-12-07 12:37:14 UTC

Based on previous post where we talk about curriculum, we know that in order for the curriculum to exist we need to construct them. Before that, teaching profession play important role in constructing the curriculum. Teachers need to have the knowledge of curriculum development, they also need to be involve in daily curriculum development such as implementing the curriculum through teaching and learning process. In curriculum development, it involves 3 elements which is: planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Models Of Curriculum Construction

ammar_shafiq29 — 2018-12-07 13:23:46 UTC

In education, we cannot deny that there are a lot of models curriculum construction that we can refer to. But then, we can say that the best among best are these four models.

1) The Tyler's / Objective Model

2) The Interaction / Dynamic Model

3) Taba's Model

4) Contemporary Model

On today's post, we are going to look at what Tyler's Model offered us as reference for us to develop curriculum. In Tyler's Model he emphasized on 4 elements which is OBJECTIVE, CONTENT, METHOD, and EVALUATION. In METHOD, he introduce us with 3 more principle which is continuity, sequence, and intergrationg

A Good Teacher

ammar_shafiq29 — 2018-12-08 09:09:18 UTC

To be a good teacher is not as easy as you might think. What does it take to be a good teacher? In order to be good teacher, they need so much sacrifices. They need to sacrifice their time, money, energy and many more to be be better. So what are the qualities on being a good teacher?

First of all, teacher need to have knowledge. As a teacher, they need to prepare well and have goals in their life. During teaching session, a good teacher must have equal contact with all of his or her students. Use the time given to give the best you could give to students.

Then, a good teacher must have high expectation towards our students. Even though they have different levels of cognitive development, they must be fair towards every single person of them. A good teacher also need to remind students to always do their best and have goals in their life.

Despite all of the hardship, teacher need to be flexible in varying teaching behaviour and activities. During the assessment and evaluation, teacher should be able to give students higher order questions to enhance their thinking ability. If they succeed, give them praise as reward for their hard work. For those who don't, give them feedback so that they can improve themselves.

Last but certainly not least, a good teacher must be able to evaluate themselves towards achieving the goals. They also need to manage their classroom very well and make it interesting.

Interaction / Dynamic Model

ammar_shafiq29 — 2018-12-09 02:33:30 UTC

Today we are going to discuss about what is Interaction / Dynamic model that were proposed by Taba and Cohen. Well of course in previous we have learnt about Models Of Curriculum Construction and this is one of the models.

Interaction / Dynamic Model is actually a modification of the previous Tyler's Model. To be highlighted, this models have the same elements as the Tyler's Model, but the application of it is quite different.

This model proposed that all the elements can be follow in sequence OR it also can be applied in random sequence, in example, you may want to start the construction of curriculum by contents first and continue with other element.

One thing that we could say, this models are flexible. Which is good in certain situation. But then, it does not have fixed objectives. Thus in the process of constructing the curriculum you might stray far from the initial objectives. And the direction is not fixed, this might lead to a unorganized curriculum structure.

Taba's Model

ammar_shafiq29 — 2018-12-09 03:00:13 UTC

On 1962, the educational world have been introduced by Taba's Model proposed by Hilda Taba. This model is so effective that until this year 2018, this model is still widely use by scholars to construct a curriculum. This model is also known as "Grass-roots approach".

There are 7 steps in Taba's Model:
1) Diagnosis of needs
2) Selection of objectives
3) Selection of content
4) Organization of content
5) Selection of learning experience
6) Organizing of learning experience
7) Determining of what to evaluate and how to evaluate it

The structure if this model is quite the same as the Tyler's Model but there are some addition into it. Plus Taba proposed that this model must be apply through the right sequence

Contemporary Model

ammar_shafiq29 — 2018-12-09 10:06:13 UTC

You guys might think that this will be another long and boring posting about curriculum construction model. Well I tell you this, IT IS. Nevertheless, you guys just bare with me because one day you might fight useful.

Contemporary Model is basically the improvised version of model from all 3 previous models that I told you guys before. Research after research had been done, thus producing this model.

There are 5 elements all together in the model and must be follow with the right sequence.

Elements Of Contemporary Model:
1) Needs analysis
2) Formulating objectives
3) Selecting and organizing content
4) Implementing the curriculum
5) Evaluating the curriculum

Open Windows of Knowledge

ammar_shafiq29 — 2018-12-09 10:26:43 UTC

We always thought that internet is one of the dangerous place because we can access almost anything inside it. It could be hell for people who intend to something bad. But for scholars, other than library, internet also is considered as heaven for us. We can access almost all information that we want with good intention.

Thus I make use the internet to find any article about curriculum and instruction that can be useful for me. And I found one. I'll attach the article in this post. The title of the article is,

Primary Teachers’ Instructional Behaviour as Related to Students’ Engagement in Science Learning.

I found this article interesting for me as I am going to be a teacher one day.

Micro-teaching

ammar_shafiq29 — 2018-12-09 11:31:48 UTC

Warning!!! This could be the longest post, so feel free to skip this one if you DON'T CARE about what I feel.

November 14, 2018 is date that maybe marked as the date that I will remember through out my entire life. It is the date where I had to do my micro-teaching. For those who don't have any idea what micro-teaching is. It is a session where I have to do a mock teaching in front of my class.

The thing is, teaching is not easy. If you think that teaching only involve delivering the knowledge you have, it is totally wrong. In teaching, you need to have the skills to attract people's attention especially your students. One of it is by preparing a teaching aid.

To be honest I'm not fully prepared because the only thing that I'm afraid of is my time management. Since I need to finish my teaching in just 20 minutes, I find it hard for me. Why do I feel so? Because I'm the type of person who hardly stop when I start to speak.Yeah it can be consider as gift and also a curse.

To do the micro-teaching well, one must be prepared physically and mentally. As I said before, it's not easy. I already did my best in delivering the lesson with my teaching aid, and as I expected, I reach beyond the time limit. In this particular moment, a gift turned to a curse.

A lot of things I learned from this session. People keep on saying "Ammar you did great", can't deny that I feel happy, but little deep inside, I still think that I can do better. Despite of all the hardship, I manage to go through it, and special thanks to Mr. Furkan for all knowledge that had been given to me.