Reflection Learning & Learner by Mosaic Ko

From the task sheet Learning and learner short coursework that been given to us in 12 august 2012, we as the mixed Tesl 3 and Tesl 4 student will have to modify one traditional games so that it can be slipped in Proses Pembelajaran dan Pengajaran (P & P) in class. We need to elaborate the important of the game various aspects such as physical, emotional, intellectual and also social. This were very important because we as the teacher want to be in the future will need to know what is the best activity in school that can create our student inner character that can build the feel of ‘esperit de corp’ or in English it said helping each other.

While doing my Child Learning and learner short coursework, I learned how to cooperate with my group mates. My group mates and I often gather and discuss together about our assignment, and divide the task accordingly. In this way, we can do our assignment more systematically and organized. My group mates also provide their ideas and help whenever I am confused. Without their help, I think our assignment will not be done well. Furthermore, while doing the assignment, I am able to learn more about traditional games in Malaysia and how to innovate them into something new. I found out that there are many information about the topic that we need to learn from internet, or from books. This knowledge proves to be very useful, as we are going to be a teacher later on. After doing the assignment, I know how to organize and innovate traditional games, and I will apply this knowledge, when I am a teacher some day, so that my students can learn something out of traditional games.

During the process in finishing this short coursework, many problem that been faced by my group and I. The most obvious thing that makes a huge obstacle in this short coursework is about the game that we need innovate. These were hard for us whereas we just learn only theory and not the practical ways in creating or innovating a game from one of the traditional games. Innovate something is not an easy work. This because, it need some details so that it can achieve the goals that been planned.

To overcome this problem, my group and I will have to sit and discussed about the plan to innovate the games. The result from the discussion really took times because each one of us came out with various ideas and what is the pro and con of the games chosen. After quiet some discussion we had, we had chose the traditional games of congkak that will be innovate by our group. We chose this game because it involves the aspect that we need to include in our essay afterwards. This were prove to be successful because had complete our essay without too much obstacle.

After that, we need to make movie and power point presentation. This needs all cooperation from all my members because this movie needs to be organized in properly order so that the viewer will not be confused about what my group and I want to tell about. Here we also got a problem whereas our group members were not properly exposed to this kind of software. Here we just had been introduced by Microsoft office and not Movie Maker. To overcome this problem, we together prepared the script and make some video to be edited in windows live movie maker. I learn that many process that need to do such as editing the word, splitting the unwanted scene in video, the grammar and many more so that the final project will be awesomely produced. For the video that had been make, we as the group collaborate very well and each one of us contribute in the making of the movie. Some of us will play as actor and some of us will be the one editing the video. It really interesting because we got many valuable experiences that I think really benefits us in the future.

  In conclusion, I learned a lot from learning and learner assignments. From the coursework, I can now understand that every traditional game can be innovate under our own creativity to attract the interest of the student. It is important because we as the teacher need to step up to give something new to our student so that they can learn faster. Before I end my reflection, I would like to express many thanks to our learning and learner lecturer, PUAN Hazlifah Bt Hilaluddin, for giving us valuable information and guidance on how to do the assignment in a correct way. Last but not least, I also express my deepest gratitude to my group mates, for their cooperation. Without them, I would not complete the Child Development assignment easily.

Classroom Disciplinary Problems and The Approaches to Handle Them

            

Introduction

Alhamdulillah, thanks Allah SWT for giving us this opportunity to work as a team members in order to complete this assignment. We would like to take this opportunity to thanks Madam Siti Hazlifah Bt Hilaluddin, the Lecturer of Classroom and Behavior Management ( EDU 3104) for helping us and the guidance to make this assignment smoothly and clearer.

            According to this task, we need to make a research or observation during SBE to analyze classroom disciplinary problems and select approaches to handle them. Alhamdulillah, we manage to do that. We also do analyze classroom management concerns regarding pupils with special need.

          

  There are two types of misbehavior which are destructive and disruptive. Disruptive is the misbehavior or the actions that can give a harm to others. Next is destructive which is the misbehavior or actions that can give harm to themselves, school and society.

There are few misbehaviors that can be seen such as loitering around, come late to class, sleep in class, talking back when someone talk to them and many more.  In every problem that they do, there must be a reason that can explain on why they behave like that. 

Then, in this essay, we also do discuss on the preparation or a plan of intervention to apply any of the approaches from the models of discipline management in the classroom. This is quite important as we as a teacher need to create an effective way of teaching and learning activities.

            As we are observing the classroom management, we get lots of information that we can applied when we being a teacher in future. So, some of them are written in essay form in this assignment.

During our SBE at school, we have found lots of misbehaviors happen in school. Misbehavior can best be defined as abnormal action or the action that is out of our norm of society.

In education context, we can simply say that is referred to any misbehavior that can disturb or stop the teaching and learning process. Meaning that misbehavior is a such a bad things that can make the teaching and learning process become less effective.

Feldhusen (Levin & Nolan, 2004) have mentioned that misbehaviors in classroom are a process of disturbing the process of the teaching and learning process. This is because these misbehaviors can disturb the focus of the teacher to teach other pupils.  According to Emmer and Friends ( Levin & Nolan,2004), they stated that misbehavior is a process of disturbing the teaching process of a teacher and also the learning process of other pupils in a long-term effect.

There are two types of misbehavior which are destructive and disruptive. Disruptive is the misbehavior or the actions that can give a harm to others. For examples are hyperactive, noisy, naughty and so on. Next is destructive which is the misbehavior or actions that can give harm to themselves, school and society. For examples are vandalism, gangs and so on.

As to complete this assignment, we have conducted a research or observation from first day to the last day of our PBS. From this observation, we can identify the types of misbehavior that we have seen during the SBE. From the types of behaviors that we have list down, there is little misbehavior that we annotate how often they occur.

The first misbehavior that we found is the pupils will talk back to the teacher if the teacher speaks or asks to do something. This kind of misbehavior can disturb the process of teaching and learning activities. For a teacher, this kind of things can disturb their focus on teaching. The teachers do not focus more on teaching but they do focus on which students did talk back during the teaching and learning process. So the teaching and learning process will not become effective.

In what sense the students have the authority to talk balk to teachers? One of the reasons of this misbehavior is the lack of social skills. This is because they seem do not know how to respect the teacher. Yes, the teacher is not their parents but they should learn on how to respect others and how to socialize with the teacher. Second reason is the influence of media mass. Meaning, they try to act as if they are the actor or the actress of the movie.

Secondly, the misbehavior that we have seen is the pupils tend to disturb others while the teacher is teaching in front of the class. Actually, this kind of behavior can disturb the teaching and learning process among the teachers and the pupils. This is because, the teacher tends to lose their spirit of teaching when looking at their committed.

One of the main reasons for this misbehavior is they are bored with the subject or the lesson on that particular time, so they start disturb the other pupils next to them. For example, when the pupils find that particular lesson does not arouse their interest, they will get bored and lose their focus in learning something at that time. So, in order to fulfill the boring time, they try to play and disturb their friends. No matter how, they will find a way to do that.

Next, there are few pupils who are so lazy. When the teacher asks them to do this and that, they tend to make it late and sometimes do not make it at all. For example, when the teacher asks them to finish the homework at home and send it to                                                                                   morrow. There are few pupils who are managed to complete and finish their homework and there are also few pupils who tend to do it early in the morning at school.

The main reason of this misbehavior is the lack of attention from the family. The teacher gives the homework to do the exercise or the reinforcement exercise at home and the parents should do something to make sure they already finish their homework. Nowadays, parents are busier and put their attention more on their career than their children. Yes, they do care about their children’s need but they do care about the other activity or things that relate to their children. They just simply put their responsible to the teacher and this is not good and fair.

Other than that, there is also pupils who are always running here and there in a class. It such a terrible things when during teaching and learning process, there are students run in class with nothing. We cannot imagine if we are in that such situation. The pupils love to run and tease their friends rather than sit and learn something from the teacher. So, in order to make the teaching and learning process more effective, the teacher has to take care of the pupils and put more effort to control the class.

The main reason that they keep running in class is that they cannot focus more on learning process. They lose the focus to the teacher and start running to reduce their bored during that particular lesson. Another thing is that maybe the teaching method is not good to arouse the pupils’ attention. As we notice that, the pupils like and much more happy when we try another things or come out with the new ways or idea in making the teaching and learning process more effective.  So, if the teaching method cannot get their attention, it can give a big trouble to the teacher. Secondly, there are few of the pupils which are hyperactive. They tend to play around and not care about others. Plus, they also cannot pay much attention to the teacher and the lesson.

Then, there are also pupils who come late to the class. Although the first period starts on 7.45 am but there are few pupils come at 8 pm. It can be considered as late and can disturb the focus of the teacher. First, the teacher will try to cover the lesson for the late pupils and this will make the teacher lose their focus on the others. Otherwise, the teacher will just focus on the others and try to make the late pupils catch the lesson on that day.

One of the main reasons of this misbehavior is because of the distance to the school. Some of the students live far away from the school and if the there is a traffic jams, they cannot manage to come to school early. Plus, some of those pupils come from low- income families. So, they cannot come at school in that punctual time. They do not have the transport to shuttle to school. So this kind of little thing can be a big reason for those who are from the low-income families.

Last but not least, there are also few pupils tend to sleep in class. When the teaching and learning lesson goes for a few minutes, they start feel sleepy and try to sleep. This will make the teacher tries to cover and help the pupils to keep awake but this kind of thing can give an effect to other pupils. Sometimes, the teacher has to stop teaching just to awake the sleepy pupils. This some sort of disturb the teaching and learning process and the teacher will lose their interest in teaching.

One of the reason is the teacher is not being so assertive. In our own understanding, assertive means that the teachers have to be firm in everything that we do. If the pupils do the wrong things, teachers must show that you notice all the wrong things and we have to show that we are not comfortable with that kind of actions or behaviors. Second reason is the teacher does not try to arouse the pupils’ interest in teaching and learning process. It means that there is no variety or the teacher just uses the same and old methods in their teaching style.

All the misbehaviors that we have mentioned have their own reasons and that things should be well prepared by the teachers in order to make and create a healthy and effective environment during teaching and learning process.

Closure

           

By completing this assignment, we get lots of things that we can conclude that are so important in order to be a good teacher. To be a good teacher does not mean that you have to be good in academic only but as a teacher, we have to be good in every sense to make ourselves as a model to the students.

As a teacher, we need to be a good communicator and know how to prepare a plan of intervention to manage the discipline problems among the pupils. Yes, academic also important but the ability to manage the classroom and behavior of the students is the advantages to the teacher to be a good teacher.

As we already stated that misbehavior is an abnormal action that are inappropriate to be done by the pupils. So, there is a reason for that particular problem. If not, the pupils will not do anything. We can say that children are a honest person. If they behave like this, it must be because of something that happens or they do not like those things. So, if we notice they do behave in appropriate way, we should identify the problems and try to prepare a plan of intervention to control the classroom.

Whatever it is, the teacher should come out with the solution. If not, it will disturb the teaching and learning process. A teacher will lose their interest in teaching when they do find that the pupils do something else or they need to make other things instead of teaching. The pupils also will lose their interest if they do find that the lesson is not good enough to arouse their interest in learning.

Anyway, as a teacher, if we want to make sure that we can control the classroom effectively, we should try to apply any of the approaches from the models of discipline management in the classroom.

As a conclusion, by completing this task, we get lots of information and knowledge that we never find before. Next, this task also helps us in order to improve our understanding on the implementation of the approach to manage the behaviors.

# Thanks to Sir Wan Mohd Aliff Azizi, Sir Hafizi and Sir Syafiq