Chester's Reflection IV

After the last few weeks of “overwhelming overload of information”, today we moved closer to something “hands on”: lesson plan for our demo project. That’s good news, moving on to applications of what we’ve learnt so far.
Well, I had the luxury of time to look through most groups’ lesson plans as the group I critiqued had some unfinished business. I think most of us are teaching chemistry for the demo, no surprises. What came new to me were all the different types of ICT tools that were on display.

Chalk, dabble? Potato! Yenka??? etc. What on earth are these???



Slowly, I got to find out roughly how these chalks and potatoes work; which forms quite a big part of what I’ve learnt today, considering I knew nuts about these chalks and potatoes beforehand. I’ve also learnt the difference between goals and objectives, which seems to be the same to me beforehand.

Despite knowing the difference, I still think writing objectives is no easy task.

Through our group work, we wrote down the objectives of our lesson. “Hmm, nice.”

Then we proceeded with our planning. “Hmm, should be okay lah.”

Then when we check our objectives again, “Eh, tak match leh” (tak = malay for don’t)

I think when we wrote the objectives, we followed closely to the MOE syllabus. However, when we plan, we did what we felt was good for the students. Hence, the discrepancies. This will be something we got to careful and not get too carried away with our own style of teaching.