Group Presentation

The time passes so fast that we are now in the fourth week of entering resources class. Today we just continue on the presentation for those groups which not yet presented their work last week.

In fact, today’s lesson started with my group as the first group to present on the power point that we have prepared a week ago. Our sub topic was “The children’s ability to grasp meaning” Basically this topic was just talking mainly on the fact that children are not born with blank slates to this world. There is always something in their mind either formally or informally. For this specific sub topic, it emphases on the intelligence of children as they are able to comprehend from the sentence given even they do not understand certain word in the sentence. Children are smart; they are able to understand what you mean by just looking at your gestures, facial expression as well as intonation. Therefore, teacher should know about the children’s development well before they are able to carry out an effective lesson in the classroom.

Next sub topic that has been presented was entitled, “children’s creative use of limited language resources”. In this topic, we can see that children are very creative in the sense of creating their own words. Sometimes it is funny especially when you see the children talking among themselves as they are eager to express themselves even though they are not using the appropriate word. Therefore, it will be good if the teacher gives group work for the children during the lesson or the children are giving chances to express their point of view on certain issue. I believe this more or less will help to build up the children’s vocabulary gradually in giving out their piece of mind appropriately.

The following up presentation was on the title of “Children’s instinct for play and fun”. What comes into your mind when this topic is mentioned? Well, it is simple. The conclusion that we can make from here is ‘children love to play’. Teacher plays an important role in integrating games and fun activities into the lesson in order to make it more interesting and attractive. This will also enable the children to learn more effectively through indirect way of learning.

The last presentation for today was “The role of imagination”. Talking about imagination, that’s the children’s favorite. They will feel very excited when they are asked to do activities which are imaginative. (Mind you: young children are really creative, you will never predict what they can do based on their enrich imagination). Hence, to encourage them, teacher should always come out with more resourceful and innovative activities which help to develop their imaginative skills. A good suggestion from the group was carrying out the activity by using the method of desuggestopedia. For this, teacher can ask the children to close their eyes and imagine that they are now in a forest, then they are asked to imagine themselves to be one of the animal in the forest, how do they look like etc. This will surely interest the children and thus pay full attention for the whole lesson without feeling bored at all.

Besides, Puan Foziah has also taught us on how to download the song of ‘waka waka’ by Shakira, the lyrics as well as the video. For these, we have to download by using a variety of software and then prepare a power point to explain the steps one by one in downloading the songs, lyrics and videos. I have too, learned that we can use the button of ‘print screen’ to capture the image of the screen. It was fun. I found this useful as we can use it to explain to other people on how to do something precisely by referring to the image that has been captured on certain web. As saying says, “Picture tells a thousand words”

Alright, I guess that’s enough for today’s reflection. See you next week. ^^