Thursday Reflection 3rd March 2016

Reflection

Reading lesson

Time: 10.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.

Class: 3 Hijau

Issues/ challenges being focused on:

Introducing punctuations to my pupils

Making sure their pronunciation, stress and intonation are correct when pronouncing

words that has the punctuations

Teaching pupils to differentiate words that has the same sound but different spelling

Analysis of focuses/issues

Strength:

1. For this lesson, I had managed to introduced to my pupils some of the punctuations

used in writing. It was a bit difficult at first because they were never taught formally any

punctuation in English before or they must have forgotten. When introducing these

punctuations, I had asked pupils to recall some of the examples that they know and had

learnt before. Besides that, when explaining the use of exclamation mark, I had

incorporate some physical demonstration which works very well with the pupils. For

example, when asked how to ask for help, I had simulate myself kidnapping one of my

pupils. They responded immediately with the expected respond that I had hoped for. The

other punctuations were much easier to teach. Besides that, when I asked them to list

down the words that has the “oi” and “oy”, surprisingly, most of the pupils even my weak

ones can do it very well. Overall, my lesson objectives were achieved.

Weaknesses:

1. Even though most of my pupils can respond appropriately during my lesson, there were

some who has a problem understanding the use and how to use the punctuation. They

were a bit confused in terms of placing the exclamation mark and using the question

mark in sentences. For example, instead of putting the exclamation mark after the word

“Help!”, they place it at the end of the sentence like so, “Help I am drowning!”. Other than

Thursday Reflection 3rd March 2016

that, during the while-reading, some were still struggling to pronounce some words and

some has a problem using the right intonation when reading.

New awareness related to experiences outside the classroom or daily life

I realized that the rate of learning in people is different from one another. Some may

learn very fast and some might be a bit slow. I need to be very well aware of how the

people around me perceive and understand things.

Suggestions and improvements:

For my next lesson, I need to prepare a variety of ways to address some of my weak

pupil’s ability to grasp what I am teaching. In other words, I need to prepare additional

materials such as teaching aids and easier worksheets.