A whole new sem.....(sem5)

after a long break (about 3 months), here i am again, starting with my busy life. i thought we will be quit free during the 1st week in this sem, so i were worried if i will become homesick and moral down during the 1st week here. 'unexpectable', we got lots of things to do now. we are creating our dance for our EDU3202 assignment. i was really surprise that i can dance!!!!! not just swaying dance but some dance that is quit hard (something like break dance). suddenly felt that i am quit smart (hahahahahahahahahahaha=p) . keke, just kidding......anyway, all the best to me and my friends out there. this sem is really challenging and fun!!!!!!!!!!!!

Animal or Human?

I think "30 Days in September" is a good drama to read. (I think because it is good, that's why Dr. Edwin chose this drama as one of the dramas for us to read in the EDU3217 course.) This drama shows us one of the ugly side in this world, which is child molestation. Human now are so animalistics (I think we are animal also, as we are also one of the species in this world, which is Homosapiens.) Children are innocent and so angel like, but those "animals" still want to ruin their future by letting them having a bad memory for their whole life. Maybe I should not call them as animal, as animals are better than them too! Dogs will protect their owner if their owners are in danger. Cats will loyal to their owners no matter what happen to them. Hamsters are so cute until we will feel happy after we see them or play with them. Human now had become worser than animals. It is so sarcastic as we are calling ourselves as the special one as we got mind and we know how to think. But! Do people now think before they do anything?! If they do, there won't be Child Molestation happened in this world! There will be no raped cases, robbery, snatch thieves, you named it! As a future teacher, I think I got a big responsible in handling the unfortunate victims of all these crimes. I need to know what are the symptoms of these unfortunate victims. For instance, they will be anti-social, always put themselves in trouble etc. It is time to change our world into a better world. Do change now people, your help and love are needed in order to built a better world.

My Great Experience....

I lost the chance to watch the play entitled "Passion" at the KLPAC with my course mates yesterday. Yet, I did get some new and interesting experiences yesterday. I went to K10 auditorium to help my seniors for their theater ("Tears of Butterfly"). I helped them to set the setting and background during the change of scene. That is really exciting! We have to set all the props in 40 seconds in a very dark stage. We did it quite clumsy, as we drop some of the props on the stage. Believe me, that is quite embarrassed. We were so panic when something fall on the ground, we scare that Pn. Ju will deduct our seniors' performance marks because of this. Luckily our senior came to tell us leave it and move on with our works. I think this is a good experience for me. As I used to sit on the chair and watch a play, I never notice how much works that needed behind a good play. Now, I experienced it already and I will be more appreciate when I watch a good play.

movies!

We have seen 5 movies: Shakespeare Wallah, Macbeth, Pygmalion, Streetcar Named Desire and As You Like It. I think my favorite movie is Pygmalion; not because of the love issue in the movie, but because I could see how the lower class people wanted to learn a proper way of speaking English so that she can become a lady. I am really impress with the heroin as she can totally changed her way of speaking into a really good manner way. I do not think that I can do like her, instead I definitely can’t be like her. That is really too difficult for me.

As for Shakespeare Wallah, what I interested in this movie is plays by William Shakespeare that mentioned in the movie. At least I can know a bit about the setting stage of William Shakespeare’s plays in this movie. The setting of the stage is really a big works; many things have to be considered to do a play. For example, the custom of the actors, the background of the stage and a lot more. All these preparations make me impress!

Macbeth, a violent movie; yet I think it is suitable during that time. It is a war movie, so I think violent must be included in it. In this movie I got a message about the greed of human. The greed of power and wealth can change a person from loyal person to a betrayer. The fear of losing power will lead a person to become cruel until he will kill kids and disrespect to women. So, as a human, we should control our desire, because desire is the main reason of leading us to do improper things.

The other two movies (Streetcar Named Desire and As You Like It), are quit interesting too. If I have a chance, I would go and watch these plays in theatre. I think that will be a very interesting!

How others evaluate my teaching

How others evaluate my simulated teaching? I think they focus more on my pre-reading stage. They will check whether my extract is suitable or not with my selected topic. Some of them focus more on my set induction which is quite violence for them. Yet, for me, violence is what I wanted to convey to them as my selected topic is the characteristics of violent in Stanley. Maybe I should explain more about the set induction and relate it more to the selected topic that I have chose. As for my while-reading stage, there is no people comment about this, but after I refer back to my worksheets and activities, I found out that it is quite boring as most of the people doing the same activities. I think I should think of a better activity next time.

How I evaluate others' teaching

The first thing that I will consider when I evaluate others’ simulated teaching is the type of set induction that they used. I will see whether the set induction that they used is related to what they are going to teach or not. Besides, I am also quite care whether the set induction is interesting or not; as set induction is very important to get the students’ attention. I had an experience where the set induction is really boring as the teacher does not know what type of background knowledge that the students have. The teacher just shows a confusing picture and asked the students what the picture about. This type of set induction is really bad as it would lose the attention of the students.

Second, I will consider about the task that the teacher chose for students to attempt. In this case, I will first relate the task with the proficiency of the students, whether they are advanced, intermediate or beginner. If the target students are beginner, then the task that given to them should have guidance. Teacher also has to guide the students when they are attempting the task. If the students are advanced, the task that is given should be more difficult and more to high level of thinking skills. For example, exercise that involves analysis is suitable for them. Ask the students to analyze the use of language in the abstract is one of the suitable activities for advanced students.

Third, is the way that the teacher teaches. The voice that the teacher used should be appropriate. Be sure that students can listen what the teacher is teaching. Slow voice is definitely not suitable; as the students could not hear what the teacher is teaching and they will feel boring in the class. They will start to do other things and lose attention to what the teacher is teaching. Besides voice, the activities that the teacher used must be interesting. Make the students to move around the class by doing some role play activities. Then the students will feel excited and like to attend to the class.

Teirisias

Teirisias, the famous soothsayer of Greece, was born in Thebes and was the son of Eueres and Chariclo. There are a lot of stories that caused his blindness and his ability of telling prophecies.
The most accepted is when he was seven, God blinded him as he revealed certain things that men should not know.
Another story is he was blind as he saw Goddess Athena taking bath. His mother begged Athena to restore his eyes, but instead of restoring his eyes, Athena gave him a staff so that he can walk like having vision and gave him the knowledge of bird.
Another story is he was in a dispute between Hera and Zeus and he went against her, so Hera blinded him. Zeus gave him a longer life and the gift of Prophecy in order to compensate him.