Four groups had presented their brilliant thoughts. The first group was about the children’s ability to grasp meaning. In order to portray abstract concepts to children, Group 1 had suggested to use non verbal communication skills and teaching aids. Facial expression, gestures, intonation and actions were some of the non verbal communication skills. Through these skills, they would tend to understand the messages and relate to their previous knowledge. In addition, teaching aids such as picture cards was essential as I always believed that pictures explained everything. This was also supported by Piaget (1978) that, ‘Children at preoperational stage preferred to learn by using concrete objects (teaching aids)’.
Meanwhile, Group 2 which was my group presented about children’s creative use of limited language resources. This meant that children were creative with grammatical forms and also concepts. For example, pupils would use existing knowledge to create negative prefixation such as ‘goed’ rather than ‘went’. Thus, in order to develop a correct grammatical form among children, games were introduced during the presentation such as ‘Simon says’. Games were chosen because in playing games children had to understand and obey certain rules and this would be useful as learning grammar consisted of certain rules such as adding ‘-s’ after plural. In addition, by integrating games in learning, I think it would effectively minimize their fear and boredom in learning.
On the other hand, Group 3 presented children’s instinct for play and fun. Games were usually related to children as it had a central role to play. Every child loved to play. They were able to use their own creativity in creating their own games. This made me realized that children were unique and they were sometimes more creative and innovative than adults. Thus, games which brought lots of fun and joy to children should be included in a classroom so that it could unleash their potential in learning.
Furthermore, Group 4 explained on the role of imagination. It clarified my hesitation on why children were delighted in imagination and fantasy. For example, I always wondered why a child would easily and passionately describe how an alien would look like rather than thinking either it existed or not. This clearly showed that children are authentic and creative in their own way. Thus, as a future teacher, I should be wise by integrating this element in teaching especially on adjectives by asking children to describe the characteristics of animals. This eventually stimulated their thinking as well.
Apart from that, in this lesson, I had been exposed to an effective way of how to download songs, videos and also lyrics. Moyea Youtube FLV downloader was introduced to the class. Before we were introduced to Moyea Youtube FLV Downloader, all of us we required to download a song by using our own alternative (other downloader). This encouraged to explore on the website rather than just spoon feeding us. I had never thought that I would be able to do it as I always asked the latest songs from my friends. This lesson had really taught be to be an independent learner rather than being a parasite. Besides, while exploring the downloader, my friends had lend their hands to me even though I was a slow learners. This eventually instilled cooperation in the class.
Lastly, all of us were assigned to do tutorial tasks such as showing the ways to download a song, video and also lyric. Each and every important step should be shown on the Power Point and burned into a CD. This reminded me that there ain’t any shortcuts in learning. Pn. Foziah had also patiently shown us the function of cropping and Print Screen. This made me to understand the functions of my laptop better. All in all, I had a great learning for today and I was now able to download any video clips and songs that I liked. Just love the lesson for today!! :)
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