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

Assalamualaikum

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 :