Role Play

Assalamualaikum readers! 

Today our group make a role play in the class. Dr Lihanna had assign each group to role play in class with different scenario written in small paper. Our group got :

Form 2

Fighting and name calling

These are our detail from the role play.

Actor and actress;

Aizat : a soft guy

Asyran, Hannan & Zana : bullies

Shazreen : soft guy's friend

Hafizah : teacher

Situation:

During class time. There is no teacher in the class.

Zana shows to Hannan and Asyran some photo of Aizat she found in the Net. They were gossiping about Aizat (the soft guys) in which he wearing girls stuff. 

*for display only*

They call Aizat 'Sutun', awww, and tease him a lot until Reen (as Aizat's backup aka Bonzer) come and they had fighting with them. The class become chaos and suddenly teacher came. Teacher stopped the fighting students and asked them what happened. Later on, teacher give advises to each of them and promised this will not happened again.

in order  to explain what teacher should do, they must follow these steps:

• emphasize the harm done to others. 

in the role play, the teacher emphasize the consequences of name calling. In the Islamic view, name is a du'a. thus, when we call someone with any bad name, it is as if we are praying for them to be bad. for example, aizat is called as "sutun". he might be a real softy if he was called as "sutun" lots of time.

other than that, name calling may leave the feeling of grudge. it may be prolonged until the end of life. who knows one's heart.

lastly, it may affect one's self-esteem. Calling with bad name can hurt someone's pride and make him or her feel less than anyone.

• encourage perspective -taking
• restate the rule
• command

the teacher should give a clear command of what student should and should'n do. teachers should provide a punishment if the matter happen again. for example, the teacher warns the student if the things happen again they might get punishment. 

The end.

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Actually our role play not going smoothly as planned but its ok. We done our best to be part of the learning process in class :D

Teaching Project #4

Assalamualaikum

Hye readers! Today is our forth day teaching in Tadika PASTI which is the second last class before we ended our teaching project.

Today we teach about How to write, pronounce and read arabic letters. At first we wrote letter Alif until Ya on the white board. Then pronounce with them together with rhythm. Then we distribute to them a printed paper of Alif until Ya and they need to colored them. After they finished colored the arabic letters, teacher will help them cut the paper and together with all student, they will glue the piece of letter on the wall. Then, they sing together the arabic letter :D

Seems easy right ? But yeah. Teaching kindergarten kids is not really easy unless you enjoyed it. :)

Just want to shared. The kids quite active after the eating time. Thus we need to do all the teaching before eating hour. pheww~

So stay tuned for our last teaching project :D
Wassalam.

Norm related assessment is better than criterion related assessment

Assalamualaikum readers!

As we promised that we gonna share the point of our debate yesterday. So here it are :D

Definition of Norm related assessment :

According to the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory site the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (1996); an assessment where student performance are compared to a larger group. Usually the larger group/ norm group is a national sample representing a wide and diverse cross-section of students.

Purposes :

According to Huitt (1996), 

1) To rank each student with respect to the achievement of others in broad areas of knowledge.

2) To discriminate between high and low achievers

Other purposes:

3)To measure how well an individual does relative to other people who have taken the same test.

4)To classify students so that decisions about their opportunity for success (e.g: college entrance) can be made.

Advantages:

# can be generalize and measure a student's performance by comparing it to the performance of other students taking the same test.

#can measure how a school is performing against other school. 

# Reducing time and easy to develop.

#No need to find time to develop new assessments for the students, since they can use the already built assessments.

#Avoid complexity for the teacher and staffs that are already have full workload to write new assessments in order to evaluate students’ performances and achievements. 

# Does not cost a lot of money.

#School authority can just only order the teacher to assess their students and evaluate them based on the assessment provided rather than hiring new teacher or staff who is professional in specific skill which can cost a lot of money in term of paying their salary.

#Make the process of curriculum going smoothly.

Since the test are similar in every school, so it is easy for the curriculum developers to know what is working and what is not working. Hence, the developers would know the suitable curriculum for a particular level of students.

With all these points, it is crystal clear that Norm related assessment is better than criterion related assessment. 

Thank you :)

Debate

Assalamualaikum readers!

This time in class activity, Dr. Lihanna had gave us a shocking task to do which is DEBATE! oh my ! There are 4 topics and each topic contain of two groups in class ; preposition and opposition team. Madam ask the representative of each group to pick randomly the topic and guess what ? Our group get the topic that we really hope we didnt get it. 

The topic is 

"Norm related assessment is better than criterion related assessment" 

Among all the four topic that madam had shown, we really blur with this topic although some of us had learned it in Psychometric Principle class. But its ok. It is the challenge for us and we accept it. So presenting our debater for this Debate Championship! *ok just kidding* :P

Hannan (as 1st speaker)

Shazreen (as 2nd speaker)

Syazana (as 3rd speaker)

Actually we had imagine that our group will be present on Thursday, 25 April (due to the topic that we get was the third one in the list). BUT (yes there is a big BUT there), madam make a random assignment again to us on Tuesday and our group will be the SECOND DEBATE. phew~ at least not the first one. BUT (again.. with the big BUT), the first group which supposedly debate first is not willingly to go first! And our group need to do it FIRST ! Our heartbeat was like dupdapdupdap rapidly. We're not really prepare for our text actually, just some point that we had highlighted before. 

And ALHAMDULILLAH, we managed to do it! Thanks teammates! Although at first we're really nerve wrecking but syukur alhamdulillah its over. YEAH ! :D

Later we will share to you our main points in our debate. Thanks for reading. :)

Wassalam.

Teaching Project #3

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Hye readers! Yesterday is our 3rd time teaching at Tadika PASTI, Gombak. We still getting nervous each time we are entering the kindergarten. However, the feeling gone when our cute students greeted us happily and being excited when they saw us coming.

This time our module is focusing on the do'a.
do'a is also known as a weapon for Muslims. Muslims make do'a to wish something from Allah.

A set of do'a had been provided to teach the students. Well, we as the teacher were hoping to teach them four do'a.

1. before going to sleep.
2. wake up from the sleep.
3. before entering toilet.
4. after getting out from toilet.

However, it is not an easy task to complete teach one do'a. At the beginning, we teach them how to recite the do'a. The students knew the do'a because but cannot read it properly and they cannot read it by themselves. especially for four years old student, they were being taught one by one to ensure the can read and memorize the do'a.

apart from only recite the do'a. they also needed to write back the do'a and coloring the pictures.

At the end of the class, we were successful teach them a do'a. when we asked the to recite, they can memorized the do'a even though some pronunciation might not be correct. It was a good feeling to see the students able to at least memorized the do'a. 

Stay tuned with us for our next teaching project. :)

Wassalam.

cute teacher with the cute students :D

Teaching project #2

Assalamualaikum.

Hye readers! Today is our 2nd time in doing teaching project at Tadika PASTI. Although we still nervous to teach those adorable little creature (the students) but it getting better because when we enter the classes, they greet us happily and acknowledge us. This is a good sign thou. :D

So, our second module is about AKHLAQ. 

We prepare the students with a story of a shepherd and a fox. We print out doodles of the shepherd, the villagers, a fox, and goats that they can colored and a stick to attach the doodles. Before we begin the story telling, the student need to color the doodles and teacher will help them to attach the doodle at the stick. 

By the end of the story, teachers will ask the student to come up with their moral of the story and teachers will explain in detail about the value they can get in the story. 

It was a fun experience for us in giving an exciting story telling to them. We have to move and talk exaggeratedly in order to capture their attention. And some of them want us to tell the story again and again. It is tiring but really enjoyable! :D

Stay tuned with us for our next teaching project. :)

Wassalam.

Teaching project #1

Assalamualaikum..

Hye readers ! This is our first update about our teaching project. We got Tadika PASTI at Gombak, near the road before LRT Gombak. :)

Alhamdulillah we managed to get the nearest kindergarten to do our project. This Tadika PASTI consists of 3 classes. There is class for 4 years old, 5 years old and 6 years old. Thus, the six of us divided by two teacher in one class and get our own students.

4 y/o = Aizat and Hannan

5 y/o = Asyran and Hafizah

6 y/o =  Syazana and Syazreen

Our first day teaching was on 5th April, Friday. And we plan to do it every Friday 8.30 am until 11.30 am. This is due to the students has a recess at 9.30 am. That is why we proceed until 11.30 am. 

Our 1st module is story telling and singing together. 

We tell a story about Prophet Muhammad S.A.W to the students and attract them with the Sirah Nabawi. Lastly, we end up singing a song "25 Rasul" together with them.

Actually its not an easy task to calm the students especially 4 year old students. It is a new challenge for us to overcome with. Basically for the first time teaching, we try to build rapport with the students and know them better. As what we observe, they love when we recognize and call their name correctly. 

This is Hannan with her students during our first class teaching :)

InsyaAllah we will do better in our Teaching Project #2. Wait for our updates ! 

Wassalam.. 

Lesson Plan on Hadith Teaching

Assalamualaikum w.b.t!

Next class we are going to act like a teacher and teach about a hadith. The main focused is student cetred instruction which means students need to do most of the activities. Dr. Lihanna had brief to us in what way we need to teach *as for to improve our Halaqah session in IIUM*.

Our group get the number 3 Hadith ; Hadith about PERMISSION.

"Kaladah ibn Hanbal reported that Safwaan ibn Umayyah sent him to the Prophet SAW with some milk and cucumber when the Prophet SAW was staying in the upper part of the Makkan valley. He said, "I entered (his house) without seeking permission or giving Salaams, so the Prophet SAW said to me, 'Go back out and say : as-Salaam 'alaykum, may I enter? "

- Collected by Abu Dawood and at-Tirmidhee-

So, our lesson plans are:


# share a video regarding the hadith
    ~consists of three scenes: in a jungle + in a house + a man propose a woman

# ask students to discuss in group about what the video is all about.
 -We will not give any topic for this video. We will ask the student to sit in group and discuss the possible topic today.

# explain the hadith and relate with the video.

#Conclusion

May Allah ease our teaching. InsyaAllah~ :)

Bloom's Taxonomy

Assalamualaikum readers!

Today in class Dr. Lihanna had lecture about Bloom's Taxonomy. Do you know what is blooms taxonomy is?

Bloom's Taxonomy was created in 1956 under the leadership of educational psychologist Dr Benjamin Bloom in order to promote higher forms of thinking in education, such as analyzing and evaluating, rather than just remembering facts (rote learning).

The Three Types of Learning

The committee identified three domains of educational activities or learning (Bloom, 1956):

• Cognitive: mental skills (Knowledge)
• Affective: growth in feelings or emotional areas (Attitude or self)
• Psychomotor: manual or physical skills (Skills)

Sources : HERE

Bloom's taxonomy contain of six domain. There are as below : 

what?! i have many intelligence!!

assalamualaikum readers,
what a pleasant day isn't it? (it's raining outside)

have you ever heard about multiple intelligence?? usually we heard multitasking, multiple and so on. hehe.
before we begin our class, dr. Lihanna had told us to do a test before entering the class. here is the link to the test (http://www.literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html). this test is developed to measure what intelligence does one's usually use. the test will listed from the most intelligence used to the least one.

there are 8 types of intelligence.

Learning Theories: Behaviourism #Day 8

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Dear readers,

a most-played-game had been randomly assigned to our group today by our instructor, Dr. Lihanna. There are four most-played-games by people nowadays. Guess what are the games?

FRUIT NINJA

WHERE'S MY WATER

TEMPLE RUN

ANGRY BIRD

What is the link between all the games above with our post title today? So, here is our class activity for today. We need to use behavioural principles of learning and explain why people spend a lot of time on the game that have been assigned to us. Hmph. Quite tough task we guess. At first, our group got 2nd game which is Where's My Water game. But suprisingly, none of us had ever played that game. So, our instructor asked the whole class who have had played that game to willingly exchange their game with our group. Alhamdulillah, there is one group willingly to exchange their game. Thanks guys! 

So, we got 3rd game which is Temple Run game. Oh sadly, same as before. We never play that game too. Oh how innocent we are. Haha. But we try our best to explain using behavioural principles of learning of why people spend a lot of their time on this game. We try to get some overview of this game from others too so that it is easy for us to explain. Thanks again guys for helping!

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This game is about an explorer attempt to steal an idol from a temple. After the explorer stole the idol, the guardian or the ‘demonic monkeys’ chase the explorer. The aim of this game is to run as far as they can by avoid from any obstacles. Sometimes in order to avoid from the obstacles, the players need to jump, duck and turn left or right. 

There are positive reinforcement for the players to keep playing this game such as material reinforces. As they run from the demonic monkeys, the player will collect some coins. This coin is somehow being the material reinforce for the players to keep playing this game. For each coin it has own color and value. With this will motivate the players to collect the high value of coin. The game itself also encourage players to continue play because the coin that been collected by the players can be spent in the game’s “store”. Through the store, the players were able to purchase upgrades to many types of bonuses.

There are also negative reinforcement while playing temple run game. Players will only be given one life at the beginning. While playing this game, players need to be alert and fast. Wrong turn or late jump will eventually end the game which means the players are lose. So, players may feel unsatisfied and feel like they can do much better for new game. The need to remove the feeling of unsatisfied is the negative reinforcement which increase the behavior to play this game again and again until they reach higher level.

These game also shaping players to be obsess to play it. At the first stage of this game, the task was easy and simple. Moreover the obstacles also were not very much. Somehow if the players survive to go to the next stage, the character in the game will running faster and will face lots of obstacles. This kind of element makes the players to keep going playing this game if they not have been caught by the demonic monkeys.

Last but not least, this game also includes social reinforces when the players get higher score in this game, they will feel brag to their friends. Their friends might praise them with words, and this might increase their spirit to play in order to get higher marks and get praises from their friends.

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That's our class activity for today. Wait for another updates! Fi amanillah :)

Islamic Education and Muslim Educator #Day 7

Assalamualaikum!

Dear readers,

class activity for today is so much related to our previous update which is about Islamic Education. Our instructor, Dr. Lihanna added the roles of Muslim Educator which are:

• Mursyid: leading/showing the way
• Murabbi: nurturing
• Mudarris: teaching (facts)
• Mu'alim: developing thinkers
• Muaddib: role model for cultured person vis-a-vis relationship with Allah.

(Source: Al-Attas, 1980)

There are some Q & A session with our instructor regarding the articles that we have mentioned in previous update. And our instructor provide some questions to evaluate our understanding of this Islamic Education topic. 

Oh the best part for today is our instructor mentioned about our team project work! Finally! This is what we waiting for since the very beginning of the semester. Yeay! So, the project is about COMMUNITY EDUCATOR. 

1. We need to come up with a programme that is in line with the principles of Islamic Education.
2. We need to identify a community that we would like to work in.
3. We need to plan strategies and modules.
4. Each of us need to complete at least 10 contact hours as educator.
5. We need to assess the effectiveness of our programme and our teaching.
6. We need to do a report.

Hmph. Do you think we can do it? Well, wait and see what we can do for our programme. May Allah help us, makes everything easy for us, and makes our programme run smoothly. Allahumma Amiin Ya Rabbal 'Alamiin! Pray for us :')

Wait for our team project work updates okay! Fi amanillah :)

Discussion. #Day 6

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Dear readers,

our instructor, Dr. Lihanna did not come to class today for certain reasons. But she already asked us to sit in expert group (refer to previous update) and make some discussions regarding the articles that we got. Then, back to our former group and explained to the group members what have been discussed.

Let's highlight on what we (BnW group) had discussed in general. To make it clear, let we list which articles belong to whom (who expert on that article):

• The Perception and Method in Teaching and Learning Islamic Education (Hafizah)
• The Tarbiyah Project: A Renewed Vision of Islamic Education (Hannan)
• A New Approach in Islamic Education: Mosque Based Teaching and Learning (Shazreen)
• Teaching Islam: A Look Inside an Islamic Preschool in Malaysia (Aizat)
• Towards the Development of a Murabbi (Acan)
• The Integrated Islamic Education: Principles and Needs for Thematic Approaches (Syazana)

Oh unfortunately, we could only discussed four articles only because of the time.

Generally, 

Hafizah's article explained about the perception and the method in teaching Islamic education from the African teachers’opinion. The article also explained about pedagogical modification of teaching methods of Islamic religious teachers in West Africa.The respondent agreed that the implementation of teaching the Islamic education had improved in West African education systems. 

Shazreen's article discussed about how Islamic Education very effective in mosque based teaching compared to school. The learning performance of students shown clear distinction in the study where mosque contribute to great achievement of students in Islamic Education subject. The discussion focuses on the role of mosques in Islamic Education in Malaysia and mosque based teaching and learning module. Therefore, the implementation of Islamic Education should be taken by collaboration between schools, mosque and Muslim communities, not school alone.

Aizat's article highlighted on Islamic preschool in Malaysia. The article provide some description of activities and schooling experience of children in Islamic preschool to educate other people who might not having in depth knowledge of what and how the children learns with regards to religious curriculum. In our understanding, there are some comparison in this Islamic preschool daily activities which common school does not have. 

Syazana's article studied about why Islamic Education is really important to be implemented. The article discussed what education really means in Islam and what are the aims of and objectives of Islamic Education. There are twelve principles of Islamic Education which includes Oneness of Allah, Fardhu 'Ain & Fardhu Kifayah, religious obligatory (act of worship), education is life-time process, important elements of human body (mind & 'aql), equal education for society's members, holistic Islamic foundation and perspective, combination of knowledge of science and faith in Allah, dealing with individuals personality, akhlak & virtue, various area of subject specialization that have been highlighted in Quran, and the research (exploration, experimentation, and invention). 

So, Islamic Education is seriously important and need to be applied in each level of education, isn't it? In our point of view, we need Islamic Education so that our life and our knowledge are in line with Quran, Sunnah, and Islamic basic principles so that what we really gain is not rewards or benefits us in this temporary world only, but for our eternal life in Hereafter too. InsyaAllah.

What do you think of Islamic Education? Have some opinion? Don't hesitate to leave comments! 

We are still in the beginning of the semester. So many things to update! Keep us on track okay? Fi amanillah :)

Jigsaw Method. #Day 5

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Dear readers,

what do you understands about our post title today? JIGSAW METHOD. Generally, Jigsaw Method is a cooperative learning technique. Truth to be told, at first, we also do not even know what jigsaw method is all about. But, proudly, our instructor, Dr. Lihanna had chose our group to do the demonstration. Yeay! And proudly too, we had shown our blur and awkward facial expression. Haha us! Okay cut the crap.

The demonstration was like this, our instructor randomly gave each of us six different articles. And what we need to do is to become an expert for the articles that we have got and explained it to group members. But surely, we are not able to master the article by ourselves alone in the time given. And we cannot discuss with each other since all of us got six different articles with different contents and information. So what to do?

The thing is we need to form new groups for each article and scan through the article together, then become an expert for an article. We split into six new groups according to the number of the articles. In this new group (expert group), we need to discuss what the article is all about. We need to fully understands the article because later we will back to our former group and combine the information that we have got with other members. Just like playing a jigsaw puzzle. Every part is important, so everyone needs to be responsible.

These are the title of six articles that we are talking about:

• The Perception and Method in Teaching and Learning Islamic Education
• The Tarbiyah Project: A Renewed Vision of Islamic Education
• A New Approach in Islamic Education: Mosque Based Teaching and Learning
• Teaching Islam: A Look Inside an Islamic Preschool in Malaysia
• Towards the Development of a Murabbi
• The Integrated Islamic Education: Principles and Needs for Thematic Approaches

Basically, all articles are about Islamic Education. We have fully used the time to understands the article until the class end. So, the discussion of the articles would be in the next class! What else? Wait for our updates about those articles! Fi amanillah :)

More information about Jigsaw Method? Click HERE.

Articles Review.

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Dear readers,
as we promised in previous update, these are three articles that we have reviewed. Oh, our instructor, Dr. Lihanna assigned us to do some short write up for each article. Enjoy your reading!


Article Review #1: Descriptive Study

Get the article HERE.

Article by Bulger, Mohr and Walls (2002) has discussed about the use of four aces of effective teaching as a professional instructional practice. The four aces highlighted the four aces which are outcome, clarity, enthusiasm, and engagement as a practice in higher education. The paper also illustrated and describe of the four aces of effective teaching as a concept to reflect the teacher practice and also gain the ability of pedagogical skill. This article shown that by following the Aces method, it will make the teacher become more effective and enhance student learning. Aces method can be applied to MRSM and Arabic issues.

Article Review #2: Correlational Study

Get the article HERE.

A study was conducted by Schlesser (2004) which the aim of his study is to document middle school students’ grade point average (GPA) relative to their participation in school sponsored activities. ANOVA was used to examine the relationship between gender, extracurricular participation and their interaction with GPA. The finding of this research was there is significantly higher GPA for students who participate in extracurricular activities than those who do not participate. Besides, there was positively associated with GPA both male and female students’ who participate activities in school. So, extracurricular activities can increase students' GPA and applied to MRSM issues.

Article Review #3: Experimental Study

Get the article HERE.

A study conducted by Ishtiaq Hussain (2005) in order to examine the effectiveness of direct method and traditional method of teaching English at secondary level. Direct method is teaching the foreign language without interference of mother tongue, meanwhile, traditional method is teaching the language word-to-word translation in mother tongue. There are four group designs in which two groups received experimental treatment (direct method) and the other two groups received control treatment (traditional method). The findings have shown that direct teaching method was more effective than traditional method with regards to students’ achievement. Teaching method in this article may help increase students' performance in Arabic.

Thank you for spending your time reading short write up for those articles! Highly appreciated. Stay tune with our next class activities updates! Fi amanillah :)

Scientific Research Approach. #Day 4

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Dear readers,

as Psychology students, we cannot run away from Research Methodology since this subject are being applied in every each Psychology's subject. In Educational Psychology, research, training, and experiment are needed in order to have a good teaching method. Meaning, we need to do some research and experiment to compare and invent new methods in teaching. Then, this new methods are put into training and applying into each level of education. This is so much interesting!

So, what is our class activity for today? Come on. Keep on guessing :D

As usual, our instructor, Dr. Lihanna will give us tasks to work on. Today, she gave us two issues for us to come up with some suggestions. 

First issue is regarding ranking PMR 2011 of MRSM in Malaysia in which MRSM Tawau, MRSM Bentong and MRSM Muar were last third in the rank. The question is, how to raise their ranking among other MRSM? After doing some brainstorming, these are some of the results from our group discussion (of course, just random):

• select only best students to enter the school
• mentor and mentee programme for students and teachers
• upgrade teaching method
• upgrade school environment
• emphasize more on subjects with lower CGPA

Second issue is regarding performance of Sekolah Menengah Agama Al-Amin students in Arabic. Their performance in Arabic is so much worrying since they are students from religious school. The expectation is that their performance should be well in Arabic subject. But, what happens is the opposite. The question is, how to increase their performance in Arabic subject? After doing some brainstorming, these are some of the results from our group discussion (of course, just random):

• Intensive classes
• Weekly quizzes
• Arabic week and Arabic camp
• Provide free Arabic dictionary
• Paste Arabic vocabularies around the school

Back to our basic discussion, how to know that all the suggestions that we have mentioned above will work? The answer is simple, through RESEARCH. From research, we will have common sense and will leads to effective results. Okay, there are three types of research that we have learned which are:

1. Descriptive study - observation, measures, survey, interview
2. Correlational study - positive, negative, confound
3. Experimental study - dependent, independent, control, group

Class activity on this day really makes us feel like we are the real psychologists! Research research research.

Before the class end, our instructor had assigned us to find three articles related to the issues that have been discussed above. And each article must represents each type of research above. Reviewing articles is such an "interesting" activity (if you know what we mean). Hehe.

Keep calm and wait for our articles on future updates! Fi amanillah :)

What good teachers are like? #Day 3

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Dear readers,

today class, our instructor Dr. Lihanna asked us to describe the criteria of being good, desirable, and preferable teachers. So, what criterion of such teachers that come up in your mind? We might have the same thoughts. Perhaps. Basically, these are some example of such criteria that we have listed during this class discussion. 

• listen to students' opinions
• patience and caring
• skillful and creative
• well-organized and professional
• motherly/fatherly
• kind, loving, generous, friendly
• supportive
• tolerance
• punctual
• have sense of humor

Know what? Mostly other groups come up with the same thoughts as well! It might be universal and common thought we guess. After that, our instructor asked each of us (personally) to softly think and imaging of any of our previous teachers who we love/favorite the most and being such a role model to us. And we need to list down the criteria of why he/she such a good teacher to us till become our role model. Since there are six of us, so there are six different teachers with lots of different criteria. But, our instructor asked us to take out some criteria that we have in common and added it to the list that we have mentioned above.

So, here are some addition to that,

• optimist
• active person
• inspiring
• strict
• have simple and fun teaching method

Well, all of the ideas are just random. Then, we need to classify all the criteria into these four categories:

• Personality
• Appearance
• Instructional
• Others

There we go, our final product!

The whole class have least criteria in terms of appearance. So, we concluded that students not really look at their teachers' appearance. Bear that in mind our dear teacher-to-be :D But Aizat keep telling us about how beautiful his ustazah (his teacher during his school time) is that change him to be a good boy. So, appearance may affect students in some aspects! 

Phewww! Such a hard brainstorming activity. Don't you think so? Well, not that hard actually. At least, this class activity had made us think what criteria or characteristics that a good teacher should have. And made us think how all of our previous and present teachers/lecturers have that strength in order to maintain be such a good teacher to us. Stop a minute, thank Allah and say Alhamdulillah for having teachers/lecturers like them and appreciate their struggle, guys. 

What we realized, being a teacher/lecturer is not about teaching a subject only but also being an educator to students. Oh plus, this class activity also might help or guide or train us about how to be a good teacher in future. Perhaps. Wait! Are we going to be a teacher in future? Or maybe one of us? Or maybe two of us? Or .. oh well, if Allah say so. Wallahu'alam :)

Before we end the class, our instructor had said that, if one day we become a teacher/lecturer (InsyaAllah), we are tend to imitate and reflect our favorite teacher's (or may we call our 'role model') characteristics. This may include their behavior, or maybe their style of teaching, or maybe their personality, or many other. Hence, it would be awesome then. Why? Because our favorite teacher/lecturer is obviously an awesome and the best teacher/lecturer ever! So we are going to be an awesome and best teachers/lecturers too! One day. InsyaAllah. Amiin amiin ya Rabbal 'Alamiin! Pray for us :)

**Oh our instructor had mentioned about Pentaksiran Berasaskan Sekolah (PBS) in our class. Do you guys know what PBS is all about? No worries. You can find it HERE.

Wait for another updates from us okay! Fi amanillah :)

Group formation. #Day 2

Assalamualaikum!

Dear readers,

our group was formed in a very much creative and interesting way. Our instructor, Dr. Lihanna, had tore papers with a picture on it into pieces and intermixed it in a bag. Then, she passed the bag to the whole class and each person had to take only one piece. Then, we need to find our group members through grafting pieces of the paper into a picture. Just like playing a puzzle. And the best thing is that everyone was like desperately finding their group members with their facial expression that so much blur and committed.

Guess what picture that our group got?

We got a picture of black and white horses. Yeay! But instead of put the name of horses, we just named our group BnW which means Black and White (the colour of the paper). Actually, we are lacking of ideas during that time since we are not really knows each other, so, nothing much to discuss about the name. Haha.

As mentioned in our previous update, our group consists of six members which five of us are very adorable girls (Hannan, Acan, Hafizah, Syazana, Shazreen) and our the one and only gentleman (Aizat).

In order to get to know each other well, our instructor constructed two class activities.

First activity involved our similarities and differences. We need to list down all the similarities that we share and differences among us. Unfortunately, list down the similarities that we share seems really hard and difficult because we do not really have that so much similarity. But differences? A LOT.

Second activity involved Statistics. We need to calculate the mean of each question that has been asked by our instructor. This activity really activate our brain since we need to be alert in calculating it and cooperate with each other. And our group managed to do it well. Yeay us! There is where our bond are getting stronger! Alhamdullilah.

So, long journey to go. Keep us on track. More interesting class activities will be updated soon! Fi amanillah :)

Beginning of our journey. #Day 1

Assalamualaikum!

Dear readers,

this blog is being administered by six International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) students which are:

• Aizat
• Acan
• Hannan
• Hafizah
• Syazana
• Shazreen

We are students from Department of Psychology and taking Educational Psychology subject this semester. Basically, the reason of the existence of this blog is because it is one of the requirement of this class. We have been assigned by our instructor, Dr. Lihanna, to update and give some reflection regarding our activities, progression, performances etc. in class and our team project work (which will be conducted soon). 

There is nothing much during #day 1 in our class since we are not in group yet. So, wait for our another updates for the group formation! Fi amanillah :)