METHODOLOGY IN TEACHING

METHODOLOGY IN TEACHING

Lesson Plan

Group of students              : Form 2 (A class of 25 students, 4 males and 21 females).

Learning Objective           : Students should be able to apply Subject-Verb agreement in       making clauses and sentences.

Teaching Procedures        :

1.      Teacher will give some introduction to students about the topic on the day.

2.      Teacher will distribute paper strips (verbs) to students.

3.      Teacher will explain the relation between pronouns and verbs by using the whiteboard and marker pen.

4.      Students are encouraged to read out the words one by one and try to fit the verbs into the correct Pronounce column while the teacher writes them on the board.

5.      Those who got the blank paper strips will need to give some examples of verbs.

6.      Next, teacher will give opportunity to students to pick three of the verbs and form sentences verbally by using the verbs given.

7.      Teacher will give feedback to make correction for the grammatical errors.

8.      Finally, the teacher will summarize the rule of Subject and Verb agreement in English.

Teaching Materials          : 1. White board and marker pen
2. Paper strips

REFLECTION ON CLASSROOM TEACHING

From my previous micro teaching class, I decided to give more information about subject and verb agreement to my students. From my point of view, subject and verb agreement is an important rule in English to ensure the forming of grammatical and syntactical sentences. In the teaching process, I enjoyed the interaction between me and my students because my students were able to give good feedback and response when I asked questions or asked about their opinion. I think I am quite success with my teaching method because I can evaluate my teaching based on the response from my students. They can understand about the relationship between singular and plural pronouns with verbs. They were able to participate actively in the classroom activities. For the example, they tried to form simple sentences by using verbs or pronouns given. So, I can evaluate my teaching performance based on my students’ responses and feedback given in the classroom.

            The strength of my teaching method is I provided clear explanation about the relation between singular and plural pronouns and verbs. I delivered the information based on variety of verbs which were verbs with and without ‘s’. I provided variety of verbs in paper strips and distributed to students. Next, my students will categorize the verbs into the column that I have drawn on the whiteboard. As a result, they can identify the difference between singular and plural pronouns. Furthermore, I encouraged them to make simple sentences by joining either the singular or the plural pronouns with verbs. They saw how the verbs work with the pronouns and understood the meaning and the function of the verbs. However, I realized a weakness in my teaching method. I should write the verbs in two different situations. For the examples, the verb ‘go’ for singular pronouns he and she is ‘goes’ while for plural pronouns we, they and you, the verb for ‘go’ will remain as ‘go’. But I just categorized verbs with ‘s’ under singular pronouns and verbs without ‘s’ under plural pronouns. So students probably will recognize the verb ‘goes’ just for singular pronouns and go cannot use for plural pronouns. Then, they will easily confused for certain verbs and misunderstand by memorizing ‘goes’ can be use only for he and she but not for Ali or Lim.

            In my class, I think I managed the classroom well because I did not divide them in group. If I formed theme into group, I will have problem to manage the classroom because every student is moving around and the classroom will likely to be noisy. My purpose of my teaching method was to raise the participation of the students in the classroom by saying out their verbs with confidence and encouraged them to make sentences spontaneously. Besides on input, I hope they can give output too, by create their own sentences and share their sentences or thinking in the classroom. However, there were some students that did not pay much attention to the classroom activities and kept talking to their friends. As a teacher, I need to handle the obstacles to make sure the teaching and learning process was under control. I would call them by names to let them know I need their attention for my teaching session and asked them to give some information that related to my teaching lesson on that day. I would also likely to encourage some problematic students to give more examples of verbs to make sure that they were still engaged with the classroom activities. The classroom is not difficult to control if we approached the students with nice and polite way.

           My previous teaching method on Subject-Verb agreement was teaching about basic rules in making sentences. For clearer explanation, I hope every students can make their own sentences based on the verbs given in their note book. Moreover, students can suggest more verbs that can we use in their daily life and classify them into singular and plural pronouns by using the same verbs. For the second stage in learning to make sentences, maybe the students need to divide themselves into groups and give opinion in creating new sentences. After they present their ideas in front of the class, they can join the sentences into essay form. By this learning method, create ideas in group, do presentation of ideas in front of the classroom by the guidance of teacher and form the sentence into essay, they can learn more about the rules in forming grammatical sentences during the learning process. In addition, teacher can also encourage the students to look up for more verbs and adjectives in the dictionary and try to build more sentences based on the words. As the time going, students will be able to identify the grammatical and ungrammatical sentences.

            Micro teaching is a very useful activity for students who study in educational field. For me, I think it is a form of preparation for teaching the students in the future. Through micro teaching, teacher knows the importance of planning before teaching, observation during teaching and learning process in the classroom and reflection towards our teaching method. Before teaching, teacher needs to plan the detail of teaching schedule to make sure the teaching and learning process in the classroom will going on smoothly. During the teaching and learning process, teacher needs to observe the students and the classroom. Teacher needs to ensure the environment is suitable for students to learn comfortably. Furthermore, the feedback from the students also important and teacher need to avoid one way teaching method or teacher-centered learning. Next, micro teaching also sharpens teachers’ skills on how to deliver knowledge through the right path or with the right approaches. For the example, every subject has different approach in delivering the information or the knowledge to the students effectively. For science subject, maybe the teacher needs to deliver the content of the knowledge by carrying out experiments to show the evidence to the students. While in language classroom such as English or Malay, teachers need to enhance students’ language skills in four basic aspects such as listening, speaking, reading and writing. Thus, language teaching can be considered as hard and time consuming task. In other words, all the teachers need to do is prepare.