Hello fellow bloggers.It is week five of my reflection.There was no class this week for curriculum development again because of the Deepavali holidays but none of my friends in my group were celebrating.Hence,we decided to discuss about our group assignment instead which assigned us to designed a curriculum based on our chosen approach and major.We all agreed to meet up at my house for discussion.At first we wanted to use the flip classroom approach and design our curriculum solely using the flip classroom approach but we were a bit confused with the components of the assignment.We did not really understand what the assignment asked of us.We did not want to do the wrong thing.So,my group member Hannee,volunteered to meet our lecturer Mr Wan to get clearer explanations regarding the project and we were given a lot of clarification because we now know what to do.Hannee explained everything to us through whatsapp and we split our assignment from there.Mr Wan also told Hannee that we were only allowed to choose from four approaches which were behavioural approach,managerial approach,systems approach and humanistic approach.My group mates and I chose to use the behavioural and humanistic approach because we were more familiar with these two approaches.We then chose English as our major subject to design the curriculum.
As of now,Lovelyn is currently in charge of part A which requires her to answer the purpose of our course and the reason why we chose the approaches we have chosen.Hannee is in charge of component 1 and 2 which are about the aims,goals and objectives and subject matter.I volunteered to do the component about evaluation and experience because I think I have a pretty good idea of how to do this part of the assignment.I have watched many videos about pedagogy on websites like Tedx and Youtube and I also have been taught by many great teachers which I look up to.Hence,I believe I can do a pretty good job at answering how our curriculum will be carried out to enhance the experience of the students and how students can truly be evaluated.I feel that this assignment is truly a stepping stone for us to become better teachers,to understand our students,to create better ways to educate them and to evaluate them.That is pretty much all I have to say about our assignment this week.Till next time fellow bloggers.
But if I were to be doing question A I would say that curriculum development is needed for our students to progress and it is needed to teach students new things that are happening in our world that is ever changing.When our curriculum develops it helps develops our society as well as better citizens and I think that the Malaysian government has saw that our students are just memorising their textbooks without thinking creatively and innovatively which is needed in our country now.Hence,they abolished PMR and replaced it with PT3.The SPM format has changed quite a bit as well.Now,students are asked questions which requires more critical thinking to help enhance their thinking skills.
As for the approaches.I would say that we chose the humanistic approach because I believe that it helps a student become more independent.It focuses on child-centred learning and students are responsible for their own education.They get the joy of discovery things during their learning process and the humanistic approach helps a child feel good about themselves when they learn.I feel that this is the type of approach many schools always talk about implementing but rarely establish this approach in their classrooms because it is too time consuming.Many teachers in the western culture are using these sort of approaches and they focus a lot on student-centred learning.Whereas teachers in asian countries like China are quite against this type of approach.I recently watched a video on Youtube showing the contrast between the Chinese way of learning which focuses a lot on memorising,100 percent teacher-centred and discipline and the British way of learning which focuses more on student-discovery or student-centred learning.
Here's the video.According to my sentiments,I prefer the British system way more.Moving on,I would have stated that the behaviourist approach was important because although student centred learning is good,there are times when we need boundaries and we need some teacher-centred classes.Learning through the behaviourist approach comes with the operant and classical conditioning.It is about praises,punishments and consequences.Sometimes we need to have a goal to work towards so we need positive conditioning.For example,if my teacher praises me in front of the whole class,I would work harder to receive more praises to feel proud of myself.Punishments are needed as well but not to a drastic and cruel extent.Mr Wan told us that asking students to stand under the hot sun for a whole hour is abuse.We should instead punish them by taking away things they like.For example,not allowing them to go for recess or their break.
Moving on,I am not sure what Hannee is going to write for the aim,goals and objectives or the subject matter.We just have to wait and see but since we are doing English,I am pretty sure the general aim is to help students become better at the language and learn to be more proficient in the language.I will update you readers next week.For now,that is all from me.
But if I were to be doing question A I would say that curriculum development is needed for our students to progress and it is needed to teach students new things that are happening in our world that is ever changing.When our curriculum develops it helps develops our society as well as better citizens and I think that the Malaysian government has saw that our students are just memorising their textbooks without thinking creatively and innovatively which is needed in our country now.Hence,they abolished PMR and replaced it with PT3.The SPM format has changed quite a bit as well.Now,students are asked questions which requires more critical thinking to help enhance their thinking skills.
As for the approaches.I would say that we chose the humanistic approach because I believe that it helps a student become more independent.It focuses on child-centred learning and students are responsible for their own education.They get the joy of discovery things during their learning process and the humanistic approach helps a child feel good about themselves when they learn.I feel that this is the type of approach many schools always talk about implementing but rarely establish this approach in their classrooms because it is too time consuming.Many teachers in the western culture are using these sort of approaches and they focus a lot on student-centred learning.Whereas teachers in asian countries like China are quite against this type of approach.I recently watched a video on Youtube showing the contrast between the Chinese way of learning which focuses a lot on memorising,100 percent teacher-centred and discipline and the British way of learning which focuses more on student-discovery or student-centred learning.
Moving on,I am not sure what Hannee is going to write for the aim,goals and objectives or the subject matter.We just have to wait and see but since we are doing English,I am pretty sure the general aim is to help students become better at the language and learn to be more proficient in the language.I will update you readers next week.For now,that is all from me.
References
Are Our Kds Tough Enough Chinese School | Season 1 Episode 3 - YouTube. (2016). YouTube. Retrieved 5 November 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYGxAwRUpaI
Humanistic Approach vs. Behaviourist Approach to Teaching. (2016). Psycho4Stats. Retrieved 5 November 2016, from https://zuczka.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/humanistic-approach-vs-behaviourist-approach-to-teaching/
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