Sakinah's summary

From our group discussion, I learn that many implementation issues can arise with poor lesson planning. As Weiqiang had said a more thorough and detailed lesson planning shoul be in place to conduct the lesson to prevent any hiccups. Peer editing is one way to conduct the activity as an alternative to Mrs Xing carrying out all the editing on her own. From all the comments that had been given to me, I realized that there are a few issues to it, especially regarding the weaker students. Weaker students may not be motivated to edit their ‘better’ friend’s essays as they may feel that their friends will always be correct. Therefore to solve this problem, like Siyun had suggested, the teacher can group them together. Better students should group with the weaker students. In this way, the better students can help the weaker students to point out the errors. This way the weaker students are able to benefit and hopefully improve on their essay writing. It is important to find out the computer literacy of the students to have a rough idea of how well the students can use the computer programme. It is also important to clearly state the instructions of the class. The teacher should also demonstrate first before continuing the class. Ground rules should be set at the beginning of every class.