teaching aids exhibition.

assalamualaikum,

since, i'm so keen into writing tonight. please, let my fingers clicking some more.

i want to make a report about the exhibition lah since i had nothing to talk about. haha. yeah no current issues unless i became so weird till i myself could feel the weirdness. nak makan macam2. pemalas nak study. rasa nak kahwin. haish. lempang pipi laju-laju. sabar. esok nak puasa! hahaha.. Does it a natural feeling for a growing up lady like me? ish, i dunno. need to seek advice from a psychiatrist very soon.

let's get back to the story. owh, it's exhibition. it's teaching aids exhibition. we had it at our so called new block. not so new nor so old but that's the newest block and the most canggih one in this college.

I was one of the committe member for my cohort. We had a jumbo exhibition. jumbo? a combination of my cohort and my senior, TESOL. owh, they just came back from Oz. Talking about TESL AND TESOL, i still remembered when we're fighting for our cohort names. It's not easy to explain but since I feel really free right now, I just want to explain a little bit about the chronicles of teslians. Before this, our beloved government send 2 batches of our seniors to Oz for two years under TESOL program, but, something happened. We're not so lucky. They decided to put a full stop to the idea of doing twinning program with overseas universities and they proudly introduces my cohort's program, TESL. gitu. that's a little bit about TESOL AND TESL in my college. if you wanna know more about the differences between TESL and TESOL, google could be the best helper to search for the valid information. If I let myself do the explanation, half of it might be fake. haha.

so, we exhibited what we did for our assignments on material design. materials and teachers could not be separated. a good teacher must put some effort to prepare teaching materials. A lazy teacher could just go into a classroom and use the materials provided by the government. kata para pensyarah. haha. I dunno what to say coz i might be one sooner. haha. it's not easy to prepare teaching aids. Buying was not a good idea coz it's not easy to claim from school administration. I spent so much on teaching aids in terms of money and time. Sleepless nights and empty pockets were two things that came in together into a teacher trainee life.

That's why, I had nothing to complain about each and every booth. Each of us had shown our effort through the masterpieces and it's so unfair if there were people who dared to complain. Not all teachers were so creative that they could produce their own big books and puppets and so on so forth. sincerely, i felt very proud if a male teacher could produce at least some simple teaching aids. Some of them were forced to join this arena and we're lacking of male teachers. Therefore, we need to put special remarks and congratulate for whatever they did. hehe. i'm not being stereotyped but we needed more boys in teaching arena.

but, for us, the local students, we had been trained to prepare those materials since we were in the earlier stages of degree journey. As compare to our seniors, they had no enough training in terms of that and they had very limited chance to be in the real situation. Meaning, they had very limited chances to practice the theories that they had learnt in class in the real Malaysian situation. yelah, they had only three moths in school and that's all. We, the local program students, were given a few trial sessions to be in the real classrooms and to try the different methods and theories that we had learnt during lectures. Eh, merepek apa ni.

hurm, i did not take any pictures. hehe. blame on the phone. i woke up late. i was in rush and i forgot my camera. my phone camera. ahahaha. i'm not a gadget freak. eh, gitu pulak? xdelah, soon, phone canggih akan muncul. now, i could still hold my nafsu to own a new up to date gadget.

no picture.just words.

i made a big book made of card boards and felt cloth. it cost me 10 ringgit plus minus. it was not an easy wheezy job. i made stick puppets to go along with the big book. The students used the stick puppets during the production stage where they needed to do some role play.

My cohort members did a very well and excellent job. They made stick puppets, hand puppets, diorama and so many superb teaching aids which I believed, had cost them a lot of money and time.

I really hope the spirit to prepare the teaching aids in order to enhance students' understanding could last forever till the end of the time to serve the nation.

If it stop at teacher trainee institute, the knowledge that each and everyone of us had gained could be consider as useless.

till then.

regards,
an observer