Monday, July 28, 2008

a few words for the 3rd class

Here I’m writing again for my blog. This is for the third resources class that I’ve just attended. As for today, I felt surprised and shocked because of the assignment three that I’ve just received. It seems like one assignment will be allocated for one week and that means life would be much harder for me. In other words, it tells me not to delay doing the assignment given.

This assignment required us to work in groups of five. Surprisingly, we cannot stick to the previous group that we have formed for the previous assignment which means that everybody needs to be in new groups. But this time round, I like the way of how grouping was done through draw lots. In my opinion it is less time consuming, efficient, fair and easy. Besides that, it gives me opportunity to work with different people which I think is vital for developing sense of understanding about individual differences as people act and work in their own ways.

Other than that, we were asked to divide ourselves into six groups where we have to discussed and further on present our discussion on the topic of Working with young learners. Under this topic, I got to know that children have already equipped themselves with set of instincts, skills and characteristics to help them learn. There are six qualities altogether which are ability to grasp meaning, creative use of limited language resources, capacity for indirect learning, instinct for play and fun, role of imagination and lastly, interaction and talk. This information is very crucial for me as a future teacher in order to understand and to handle the kids at school in the future.

That’s all about this week. Hopefully a miracle will happen to me to help me with another assignment. God, show your mercy on me…..

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