What have I learned ? ( Reflection 3)

 

What is a lesson plan? A lesson plan is a teacher's detailed description of the course of instruction, or 'learning trajectory' for a lesson. A daily lesson plan is developed by a teacher to guide class learning. Details will vary depending on the preference of the teacher, subject being covered, and the needs of the students. How is this related to me? Well, as a future educator in the process it is necessary to know what are a lesson plan and the functions of a lesson plan in the lives of the educators and that is what was thought to us during “Pedagogy in Education” class.

Basically, I only knew the brief knowledge of a lesson plan in which a lesson plan is something like a reminder that reflects what needs to be thought or what needs to be accomplished by the teachers during the teaching and learning process. But soon later, I have realized that a lesson plan involves more than a reminder. This is because a lesson plan actually includes the goal or objectives of what the students are supposed or required to learn and how the goal will be reached to the students. During the teaching and learning process, learners are considered as the most important source because at the end of the day it is the learners who are going to obtain what is being thought in class, so by having a lesson plan educators are able to have a clear picture in what they want to teach, what they expect students to learn and what methods or techniques can be used to transmit knowledge during the class session.

What have I learned? I would say that a lesson plan serves as a tool that is very important for the educators because setting up a lesson plan is very mush beneficial for the educators in their daily lives because by doing so teachers are able to understand what they are about to do and what the wish to achieve, so I would say that a lesson plan indeed serves as a tool for guidance.

Reflection 2

 

   

What is teaching? From my perspective, teaching means a process in which an individual engages in transferring or sharing knowledge with others. Being a teacher it not a simple thing, I mean to be honest teaching is also considered to be one of the toughest job. To be an educator one must really know the best teaching strategies or thoughts in order to make the teaching and learning process to be more effective and interesting. This week we were actually given an article regarding the” Three schools of thought about teaching and learning” and that article represent three schools of thought that stands for cognitive school of thought, humanistic school of thought and lastly the behavioral school of thought.

Each school of thought has its own contributions and characteristics that can be applied by the educators for their teaching and learning process. We were assigned to form a group of 6 and choose the types of thoughts in order to identify what are the characteristics hidden or found in the chosen school of thought. Eventually, each group did a job in presenting their views and understanding.

Later, we were questioned to choose one school of thought and explain why is it the best school of thought for our teaching? Well in order to answer this, I would rather pick the behavioral school of thought for my teaching, because from what I understand regarding behavioral school of thought is that it indirectly involves motivation for the learners. The behavioral school of thought is interested in finding out how external, environmental stimuli cause overt or observable learner behavior and how modifying a learner’s environment can change behavior. Basically, I believe that in order for one to learn there has to be some motivation that can help them to engage themselves in learning process as well as doing something that is beneficial for them. For instance, under behavioral school of thought there is the operant conditioning where the learning is facilitated through “reinforcement” or in other words reward or punishment in the sense where learners will be rewarded if he or she performed well or they would be punished for their undesirable performance by providing more or extra homework.

Besides that, I personally believe that by using reinforcement method in class, there are high possibilities for an educator to receive number of response from more than one student because learners tend to participate actively in order to obtain the reward. That is why I would choose the behavioral school of thought for my teaching purpose so that as a future educator I would be able to engage my learner’s participation during the learning process and also I am able to carry on with the lesson in an interesting manner.

Reflection 1

 

 

 Well from my perspective, today's lesson and experience was actually about creating our own email and blogspot for our education purposes. Eventually it was not as easy as it sounds because it took at least more than an hour just to set our own accounts. The whole class was running around for help as the students were actually lost in setting up their accounts due to the errors and etc. But, at the end of the day we managed to complete the task by helping out each other and I would say that it was actually fun and interesting during learning session because it is not everyday that we carry our own laptops for our education purposes. What are the lesson learnt as a teacher and also for teaching and learning? From my perspective in order to become an educator it is important for us to be expert not only on educations and knowledge but also on soft skills and technologies. This is because during setting up my own account I really had a hard time because generally I am not good in all this matters and my friends helped me in creating my own account. This is where I have realized that, as a future educator it is very much important for me to personally improve myself in soft skills because the teaching and learning process now is actually leading towards advance where teacher slowly are starting to use technologies for the teaching and learning process and even students are now using digital technologies such as phones, tablet and laptops rather than using books for their learning, so it is high time for me as a future educator to get use to this. The above picture shows the environment of the classroom during the lesson as we can see the class is totally busy in setting their respective account in their own laptops and tablets.