segundo reflexión (25 Jan ’11) Part III

Lets pick up from where we left before the week before CNY.

Between, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! May this Bunny year bring happiness & prosperity!

ANALOGIES & IMAGES

An analogy is the comparison between two (2) things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification. It is very useful for teaching in explaining the dry factual concept to the students especially for the physical characteristic of the concept. Such as;

However, is analogies and metaphor are the same??

Metaphor is a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.

Images can be defined as a representation of the external form of a person/ thing in sculpture, painting, etc. Or it is a mental representation/idea. This is to connect and enhance the visualization of the students. These images can be referring to models that are use in conducting experiments.

This image refers to still images and 2D. (Just like the images that is being used in this blog ;)) 

PRESENTATION

It is the practice of showing and explaining the content of a topic to an audience or learner. Using models, symbols, or simulation can do this.

Counter part of images is these types of presentation, where it isn’t a still images and in 3-D (three-dimensional).

It would be fun if you can teach your students with a simulator, experience what should be experience.

Before I close this part, one question to all, can this method replacing experiments in laboratory where our students conduct on their own?

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tercera reflexión Part I (27 Jan ’11)

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segundo reflexión (18 Jan ’11) Part II

This part is divided into two, where 3/5 of the teaching concepts are discussed in the classroom and the rest will be continue the week before CNY. (where you can observe in the parasite box that is  attach to the big momma, as I called it, there’s PART 2, that is!)

Down to business. These are some of the methods to teach concepts in the classroom, and it varies from one lesson to another, one teacher to another, a group of students to another, urban VS sub-urban students/school, etc.

In the discussions, when every groups needs to present their work with the specific example from the syllabus, we are surely having a hard time to relate the teaching concept method and how to lay it out together with the concept itself. At one point, we observe that, most of us faced the breakdown of the teaching concept. It’s not as easy as people might think. Without practice, experiences and hard work to really figure out which of the concepts in sciences can go with the teaching concept method chosen, the whole thing can be as useless as a phone without signal. 😛 The whole idea of having a phone is to make a phone calls, and without signals, no incoming or outgoing calls can be made or receive. Same idea as the teaching concept method, where, the concept chosen should blend in very well with the teaching method.

Example/non-example: sounds easy. However, as what the first group did, the teacher can mislead or making the student confuse about the whole teaching. Choosing to differentiate organic and non-organic matter of the living things, they made the class summarize that the whole thing is organic, which becomes their breakdown. And without revealing whats their topic is, the whole thing is misunderstood by everybody.

Advance organizer: my group. The tricky question from Prof is. ‘What’s the differences between concept maps and mind maps?’ Killer! But here is the answer: The mind maps is based on radial hierarchies and tree-structure denoting relationships with a central governing concept, whereas concept maps are based on connections between concepts in more diverse patterns. This method can make your life WAY easier to approach the students either to starts the lesson, or summarzing the whole lesson. Choose, laying out the whole chapter, or topic, or lesson, etc.

Experiment: Kinda impressed with this group explanation on this method. Their example is the density and mass. Floating or sinking. As what Oprah Winfrey said, ‘This is the A-HA moment’ of every student. Well, for Malaysian students, they might say, ‘Ohhhhh..’ *applause*

ps- If you can’t figure out what’s the word behind my balloons SmartArt Graphic, it says, CONCEPT. I made it myself 😉

segundo reflexión (18 Jan ’11) Part I

ps- If you would like to download the pictures attached, you are welcome to. I made it myself. 😉

primera reflexión (10-14 Jan 11)

ASK attitudes-skills-knowledge

Teaching is not an easy things to do just like most people would imagine. Especially if you’re teaching sciences.

One: you have to be VERY good in explaining the content part, the KNOWLEDGE.

two: you have to be attentive enough for the students to keep them focus on you, which is your SKILLS in teaching which is basically your personality.

Three: the one thing that you shouldn’t missed is your ATTITUDES towards teaching and what should you show your students.

Well, thats exactly what teaching Science is all about.

At the end of the lesson, we as a Science teacher should be able to impose the KNOWLEDGE to our students, making sure that they are able to perform using the SKILLS that they being taught (either in activities or experiments) and the most difficult part is to planted the desirable ATTITUDES of your students while performing the task or outside the classroom.

So, ASK, and you shall receive.

We also touch on the National Philosophy of Education (NPE) and one of the main principle belief is belief and devotion to God which has been formulated in 1987. The educational aim of the country is to produce individuals who are intellectually, spiritually, emotionally and physically balanced and harmonious, based on a firm belief in and devotion to God.

I am a devoted Christian, but I still respect people who don’t trust in the existence of God. So, in this case, should we listen to these people when it comes to education? Does it makes the science that comes out of the so-called god-less scientist is a bad science and vice versa?

Godless Einstein

Something to think of before you go to sleep or when you say a little prayer tonight.