Classroom Rules

Classroom Rules

What is rule?

Rule is a statement that tells us what is allowed or what will happen within a particular system. Rules are just like other instructional activities. Students have to be taught, reviewed and reinforced if they are to be remembered. As future educator when we start our first lesson to the class, the lesson should be on teaching of rules. Introduce each rule and discuss the variety of behaviours that the rule might include.From my point of view, rules are important tool that every class teacher should implement in their class. This is because,rules help to keep the class running smoothly so that we have more time for teaching academics. In order of that, the rules that I will set for my form 1 class as a classroom teacher are:

1. Keep the classroom clean and neat.

• A clean classroom will makes the students feel better that which leads to more positive experience in learning. 

2. Raise your hand before speak.

• This is because, teacher can identify who is willing to speak. Moreover, if nobody raised their hand everyone will talk at once and nobody could hear what was being say.

3. Ask permission.

• Asking permission from teacher before doing something, as it reflects the student respect towards the teacher. Respecting  teacher is a attitude that should owned by every student.

4. Be on time.

• Students are required to come on time to classes. This is because, when a student come late to the class, they have been missed certain lessons that might left them behind in the topic.

5. Get done with homework and worksheets on time.

• Students need to pass their homework and worksheet on time that will reflect students attitude to the teacher. By doing the homework and worksheets will help the students to understand what they have learned.

This are rules that I will implement when been a class teacher. I hope this rules help me to manage the class and create a conducive learning environment to students. 

Strategies of an effective Power Point Presentation

First of all, let me explain what is power point presentation. Power point presentation is a quick and easy way to organize ideas and information of a presenter to the audience. In other words, a power point presentation is a demonstration,speech to transmits information  or messages. However, in education power point plays a main role in delivering the lessons to the students. Power point presentation is also a pedagogy method of delivering the knowledge to students.As from this week class we have learned on how to prepare an effective power point presentation in delivering knowledge to students. There are few strategies that was thought by our pedagogy lecture (Madam Ng) to us on how to prepare an effective power point presentation in our teaching activity.

1. First of all, when preparing our power point slides try to avoid using colours that is too bright and dull such as pink, yellow and etc., as possible try to keep the slides background as simple by using white colour or peach colour as the background.
2. Next, select a proper templates or layouts in power point. The template that can adjust size according to the information's, so that learners are able to have a clear view of the information that have been presented in slides.
3. Avoid adding too much of information's or details into one slides and try to keep one point in one slides. This will help the presenter to organize the information rather squeezing all information in one slide. 
4. Try use keywords or main point in slides. This is because, when there is too much information in slides that will might be turn up to reading of slides rather than presenting.
5. Relate the lesson with examples by providing video that relate to the lesson which make me the student understood well about the lesson.
6. Try using real clip art rather than use a non clear picture that might confuse the learners.
7. Use creative strategy by adding pictures into the slides with the title and ask the learners opinion before starting delivering the information. It will enable students to have a better understanding on what they are going to learn. 

Stages in Lesson Plan...

As I mention in my previous post, that lesson plan is the instructor's road map of what students need to learn and how it will be done effectively during the class time. A lesson plan is a detailed guide for teaching a lesson. It is a step-by-step guide that outlines the teacher's objectives for what the students will accomplish on the lesson. Furthermore, creating a lesson plan involves setting goals, developing activities, and determining the materials that will be used during the lessons.

The benefits of lesson plan for an educator are:

• Helps educator to stay on track
• Helps educator to prepare for every step of the lesson
• Provide guidance for a substitute
• Helps educator to save time in the future
• Helps educator achieve their objectives
• Helps educator to think in an organised manner
• Inspires to improve future lessons

Moreover, details in lesson plan will vary depending on the preference of the teacher, subject being teaches and the needs of the students. A lesson plan is a process that which starts from the goal (what students are supposed to learn), how the goal will be reached (the method, procedure) and a way of measuring how well the goal was reached (test,worksheet, homework).

In order of that, there are several stages in lesson plan. In my opinion, the important stage of lesson plan is the student evaluation stage. This is because in the student evaluation stage is a stage that evaluate a student understanding from what they have learned from the entire lesson. For example, me as a student, whenever there is a task or worksheet that given by teacher to me. Then, i only i start to go through the notes during the lesson to answer the task or worksheet.Therefore, an evaluation stage is very important stage for a student and a teacher.

First time experience on creating lesson plan

What is lesson plan ?

In my opinion, from yesterday lesson plan is a just a reference that need to prepared by teachers before entering the class. However from today class I have learn on the importance of the lesson plan and how to create it. How make me  realise the importance of lesson plan for a teacher? 

The story began from my pedagogy class today. Today our task in class is creating lesson plan based on our knowledge. When the discussion start on the content of the lesson plan, we all start giving ideas such as date,time,content,topic,reflection and extra.

                                            
Then, my lecture have be given a task in group work on create lesson plan based on the content of lesson plan that we gave during the discussion. As per our task, we also start our task by searching Google on example of lesson plan. During the searching of the example of lesson plan, I have found different type of lesson plan as been created. After 30 minutes, we have draft a lesson plan based on our understanding. The draft is as below.

Lesson Plan

Date :	Time / Duration :	Subject :
Topic :	Venue :	No. of students :

Introduction :

Learning Objectives :

Activity during Class :

Teaching Method :

Materials :

Learning Outcomes / Reflection :

Proficiency / Competency :
Beginner  -	Intermediate -	Expert /Advance -

Conclusion :

Each of the group has been projected different type of lesson plan which differ from each of the group.After the discussion my lecture have given on importance of lesson plan for a teacher and student.

Lesson plan is  the instructor’s road map of what students need to learn and how it will be done effectively during the class time. Before you plan your lesson, you will first need to identify the learning objectives for the class meeting.  Then, you can design appropriate learning activities and develop strategies to obtain feedback on student learning. A successful lesson plan addresses and integrates these three key components:

• Objectives of student's learning
• Teaching and learning activity
• Strategies to check student understanding

In conclusion, I have understand the importance of a lesson plan from today's class. A lesson plan is not a simply creating but it is creating based on the student's and teacher understanding before start the lesson to the students.