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• UUM Academic Affairs Department Official Website :: Dress Code
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  • ETHICAL CONVOCATION DRESSING
     GraduatesIt is compulsory for graduates to don the proper convocation dress prepared by the university according to the conventions set forth:
     
     
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    5. The heels should not exceed 1.5 inches.
    6. The hair should look neat;
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    8. With head gear (tudung), the shawls should preferably be light coloured and well suited with the academic dress.
  • REMINDERGraduates will be PROHIBITED /STOPPED by the marshal from witnessing the investiture of the scrolls if their dress does not conform to the dress code.

Ammar n Titanic second take from Asniem Ca on Vimeo.

This is a video of my son describing on the sinking of titanic. He learn English mainly through watching cartoons and movies. Although I am an English teacher but we didn't talk a lot of English at home as I want the primary exposure to be the media.

By observing Ammar, we can see that that second-language language ability can be acquired in multiple ways through various form. The shift from the traditional learning method (parents talking to the toddler, reading  books or sending to the English only kindergarten) to the use of media is to highlight the possibility of diversion in teaching the language at home. The practice is useful and will be beneficial for non-speaking second-language parents to further educate their children at home.

The idea here is to let the parents know that even if they themselves are not proficient in the language mainly in speaking it, is not a dead end. Frequently parents blame themselves for their weakness thus shifting their responsibility to the teachers at school.

Parents can help their children learn mainly by selecting the appropriate media, making sure they watch it at least 30 minutes a day and go through on what they have seen in the cartoons or movies verbally. Children are like sponge, they absorb fast. However, they might have some difficulties in expressing themselves. This is where the constant exposure must take place so that the intended content that we want them to learn will register in their mind. In time they will have the self-esteem and you will be hearing all sort of stories from them.

Ammar and Achik (my youngest) watched the Titanic nearly everyday for the past month (with mummy and grandma as the censoring board ;) ) until the DVD went MIA. So now, all they can do is tell us again and again about the sinking of Titanic with the help of blocks and drawings. It can be hard sometimes when you are busy and all they want to do is tell you stories.

On the other hand, I am glad at least I did something right. Just for laughs, I had the fair share of watching Dora the Explorer at 2 am just because Ammar feels like it!

Cheers! Till the next video....

• What Great Teachers Do Differently - YouTube
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• Positive Time Out
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  • Most adults do not realize that children are constantly making decisions about themselves, about their world, and based on those decisions, about what to do to survive or to thrive. (The four categories of decisions are covered in Chapter Five)
  • Positive time out is based on the understanding that children "do" better when they "feel" better.
  • On the other hand, positive time out can help children learn many important life skills, such as the importance of taking time to calm down until they can think more clearly and act more thoughtfully.
  • When human beings are upset, they function from their reptilian brain (the brain stem) where the only options are fight or flight. I joke with people by saying, "When children push your buttons, you react from your reptilian brain, and reptiles eat their young."
• Classroom Discipline Tips: Dealing with Difficult Students & Parents - TheApple.com
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  • First of all, refuse to take the disrespect personally.
  • Keep in mind that the child does not really know you as a person and is responding as a child would—childishly
  • Next, work to minimize the disruption in your classroom. Depending on the degree of disrespect—from rolling eyes and heavy sighs to loud remarks, you can choose to keep everyone else as on task as possible. Deal with the misbehaving student personally and in private whenever you can. When you do speak with the student, resist the urge to engage in a verbal battle.
  • Instead, take a problem-solving approach. Work to solve the original problem and usually the student will volunteer an apology. Even if the child does not apologize, when the behavior improves, be glad. You won. Even better, the child is on the right path.
  • A craving for an easy life seems the undercurrent- any activity designed for a learning task is taken as ‘boring’. This translates into noise making, disrespect for class orders and teachers. what other means does the teacher have hold the class in control for the benefit of the serious students?
  • In order to reach students, we need to reach them where they are
  • While you should not pander to their whims, it is important to help them see the importance of learning. I work with my students to set short and long range goals (some of my students can be as unruly as yours, I believe, and for the same reasons). I make sure they know WHY they have to do the work—how they will benefit.
  • As for the students who care—try to focus on them more than you focus on the misbehaving students. Sooner or later, you can turn it around. Try every single trick you can to motivate and then keep on trying some more. Your students need you.
    • your students need u
  • What do you do with a child who continually has outbursts in the class that interrupts lessons?
  • First, you need to find out why the child is making these outbursts
  • Even though it is almost impossible, try to ignore as much as you can.
• Students Misbehavior and How it Can be Improved By: Flavia Marietto and Meghan Woodstock | NY Teachers
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  • There are many different reasons as to why children misbehave and it is important that as educators we understand these reasons and know how to prevent them.    Sheila Milnes once stated, “If you learn why your children misbehave, it will give you new ways to try to prevent problem behaviors” (Milnes, 2004).
  • Children misbehave for various reasons.  Due to many behavioral disorders, because of their lack of attention or love at home, boredom, confusion about their school work, lack of confidence, bad home life, low self esteem, need for independence, lack of social skills, lack of guidance and psychological problems or disorders.
  • “Children need to feel that they belong to you, to
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     behave badly.”  (Richardson,     Oklahoma State University) 
  • The top two reasons why children misbehave is due to their boredom and lack of attention.
  • This is not an easy task.  Educators are often too busy, have no patience or interest in why the children are misbehaving. They often just want the behavior to stop and punish without further investigation. This leads to further misbehavior in the future. If we, as educators, take the time to investigate the cause of children’s misbehavior, we will save ourselves a lot of time and frustration in the future and genuinely help these children succeed.
  • This seems to be the one thing that teachers worry about the most regarding the classroom. Any teacher can teach children the information they need to learn, but it takes a good teacher to be able to control their class and deal with misbehaving students.
  • Nurturing students who misbehave is an interesting point. I think they need to feel that the teacher is not going to give up on them just because they misbehave.
  • Also, we as teachers need to be aware of our teaching demeanor. We need to prepare captivating lessons, which will entice our students with a desire to learn.
  • I believe being aware of these hierarchy of needs is essential for teachers. The five different steps that must be completed before the next needs are taken care of are physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness and love needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs.

• Teacher Blog Spot − Classroom Management
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  • Even Some Veteran Teachers Haven’t Considered Teaching Procedures In This Depth…
  • wonder what their secret is.  The secret lies in the first few days and weeks of school.  The first few days of school are SO crucial.  If a teacher allows and ignores whispering in the hallway now, then students will be yelling in the hallway by Christmas.  You must “nip it in the bud” my college professor once told me.  If students don’t do EXACTLY what you want the first few days of school, you must make them practice it over and over again until you get EXACTLY the behaviors you desire.
  • In our conversation I said “Remember every behavior that got on your nerves last year,”.

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    I am attaching a picture of a classroom I visited for a lesson study.  I took a picture of this poster because I was impressed with how specific the procedures were as the teacher had discussed them with her students.
    
    
    
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    “First, whenever teachers want students to follow certain directions, they must teach the specific behaviors. Teachers too often assume that students know how they are expected to behave. Teachers first need to establish specific directions for each activity during the day ‑ lectures, small‑group work, transitions between activities, and so forth. For each situation, teachers must determine the exact behaviors they expect from the students.”
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A little get away from the mundane exams revision for the year 6, I've asked them to do a scrapbook.

The scrapbook consisted of topics such as:

1. About myself
2. About my friend
3. Daily routine
4. Describing a man
5. Describing a woman
6. Things I want to buy
7. Places I want to go

The pictures for the scrapbook were self selected from the free NST copies donated to our school. Each pupils got a copy and they were given freedom to choose the pictures they wanted to use.



The Star Writers featured are:
1. Wan Syahrunnisa
2. Ammar Salihin
3. Muhammad Faiz Fahmi
4. Nur Dalila Farhani
5. Afiqah

The Best Speaker Award

Most Popular Journalist

 With the award ceremony, the month of activities has come to an end. I do hope the pupils learn something from all the activities we have done. I try to divert their attention to listen and speak as these skills are very important but almost neglected as we play focus to examination.

I am very happy with how the activities turn out to be and I was thrilled when I marked their report. I hope we do have time to write the report as a comment to this blog so that they themselves can read their peers'.

Overall congratulations guys, you did great! I hope after Hari Raya holidays we can do some more activities like this!

Muhammad Amir Redza got 5 votes out of 7, congratulations!

Muhammad Alif Ismail got 146 stars, excellent!

For details on the execution of the activities, please click here.

• Teaching EFL to Children: The Delight of Being Constantly Challenged
  "The First Day of English Class for Young Learners (and Their Parents)"
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  • introduce myself
  • learn my students' names
  • I ask my students to take out the books and materials they are to use during   the whole term. I introduce the books one by one by holding them up and presenting   their titles. For instance, for a workbook I would say: " Look, this is   your workbook," and have them repeat the word "workbook" after   hearing it a couple of times. This activity goes on until all the books are   introduced and can be recognized by all the students. So, when I say, "Take   out your textbook," they know which book they will be working on.
  • write their names and last names on their belongings, particularly   their books and notebooks
  • tell them how we do the roll call and that each student should say "present"   once s/he hears his/ her name. I ask the students to say "absent"   when a student I call is not present.
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    Repeat.	Write.
    Come to the board.	Read.
    Go to your seat.	May I go out?
    Be quiet.	May I come in?
    Stand up, please.	Please sit down.

  • It Works in Practice: A Puppet, a Ball or a Bottle?
  • What did you talk to your son about when he was   six years old?"
  • At this age, pupils are supposed to be able to function in useful, daily situations,   responding to questions such as:
    

     
    

     
    - What's your name?
      - How old are you?
      - How many people are in your family?
      - How old is your sister? What's her name?
      - What's your favourite colour?
      - Have you got a pet? name? colour? favourite food?
      - Are you hungry? What would you like to eat? etc.

  • children learn best through playing   games
  • how do we teach them?
  • Games hold children's interest and motivate them to speak. Here are three   ways of challenging young learners to start talking about themselve:
    

     
    a. a puppet – Use a puppet to ask children simple questions.   Children's imaginations help them to communicate with puppets easily.
      b. a ball – Ask a question, throw a ball to a child, and he   or she catches it, he or she answers the question.
      c. a bottle – Ask a question, spin a bottle, and when it stops,   it points to a child who answers the question.

  • teaching young learners is repetition.
  • The   aim of this activity is to teach the children how to speak about themselves.   It is a drawing dictation.
  • Some children may have   already started using didn't in negative utterances without knowing   that did is an auxiliary that carries tense and that therefore, the   main verb has to take the infinitive form.
    • Good grammar point! Aha moment!
  • The main purpose of our job is to educate children.

Finally my links from Diigo arrived! After some editing, here are some of the links I've visited and for the rest of my readings will be on Diigo. Enjoy!

• How to add floating social media sharing buttons to Blogger ~ Amazing World
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• How to Add Elements to Your Web Page with iWeb - For Dummies
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• Competition | LearnEnglish Kids | British Council
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Phew! What a morning! Alhamdulillah, I've completed my task. Preparing a presentation on answering technique was not easy when you are not the examiner. Research needs to be done, soliciting tips from examiner, writing down what you already know, looking for the right questions to throw, preparing slides and the hardest of all capturing the audience interest in your delivery.



Let's the slides speak for itself. Enjoy!!

My best friend stumbled upon Diigo last week and he linked the page to me. I find it as a great tool for teachers to share their readings online, with their students and friends. It will gave people insights on the things other people are interested on and who knows, they will love it too. I hope to link my library in Diigo here so that, if I found anything great, my students will be the first to know.

I am in the course of investigation now....Wish me luck!


Further information on Diigo can be viewed through this slide show.

These days I'm into updating my blog. It got me hooked but I can't seem to find the theme that I really like. Quite an adventure, doing something you are not familiar about. So, in the quest of web design and whatever, I need to upload these pictures. So much for an amateur.

Exploring other ways of learning is rather an adventure for a teacher. Considering pupils multiple intelligences I find there are many ways needed to capture their attention and knowledge retention. I mean chalk and talk daily would be boring even for the teacher.


The lesson is simple: to find out what are the product made from the oil palm tree and how they are processed? (this reflect the title of the topic: Bountiful Harvest)




 The lesson progressed in stages and it took a month to complete the cycle.


Step one: Reading Comprehension, a passage from the textbook. It describes the oil palm tree and its produce in general.


Step two: Pupils answer comprehension questions.


Step three: Pupils (in groups) are asked to do a small-scale research from the internet. The research must cover the following subtopics:
a) name one product made from the oil palm tree
b) how is the product processed?


Step four: Mini presentation by each group. A Gallery Walk.
This was my initial planning but after their deadline, the pupils seem lacking of interest for the presentation so..... this is where step five comes in hence the title.


Step five: Pupils are given role as whether as journalist or speaker.
The speaker will stay at the presentation booth and will answer questions posed by the journalist.
The journalist will navigate through all the booths (excluding their own group) and pose questions.


The questions are fixed and determined by me. The rationale are to focus on reading fluency and increasing their confidence in acting out their role. The questions are:
1) What is the product?
2) How many days it take to process the product?
3) Which part of the oil palm tree is use to make the product?
4) How the product is process from the oil palm tree?
5) Where can I find this product?


In addition to their primary roles, the journalists are required to give rating on the scale of 1-10 to the speaker. On the other hand, the speakers vote for the most participating journalist for each group.


Step six: The pupils are required to write a one page report single spacing on the foolscap A4 paper based on the answers to their questions. The speakers need to do the report too but since they are stationary therefore they are only required to write report based on the details of their own presentation.


Until this post is written, we are on the verge of completion of step six. A report will follow soon.

Nothing much to say based on this. As usual, I'll keep my comments private in the classroom. I know, there are some improvements and I have to be grateful to God. Alhamdulillah. Syukran Ya Allah.

I hope my students can perform better next time. They still have time. There's always room for improvement, InsyaAllah. If there's a will, there's a way!