JOURNEY ON BECOMING FULL FLEDGED MATHEMATICS TEACHER

 The time has come, this week has been held MAJLIS SUKAN SEKOLAH DAERAH (2022), Football match. Words cannot describe how stressful this week has been, juggling my classes and managing the team for the tournament.   Activities this week. The lesson and revisions conducted in this week are: FORM 4: This week we start learning new topic, Chapter 4 (INDICES, SURDS AND LOGARITHMS). Since I will be out of the school for two days, missing some of the classes, I have set few of the easy subtopic for the students to do self-study, 4.1 and 4.2, Indices and Surd. Whereas during the time I available, I will be teaching 4.3, Logarithm The  STRENGTH  of my approach is it cultivate the student’s self-discovery skills. but the apparent  WEAKNESS  is a handful of the students didn’t take my heed seriously, as there has been reported case of them sleeping during the time of my absence. OPPORTUNITY  that can be seen is for them to build up their independ...

  Aside from academic lessons, this week I have been busied prepping for MAJLIS SUKAN SEKOLAH DAERAH (2022), for MRSM Taiping Football team. Words cannot describe how stressful this week has been, juggling my classes and managing the necessary documents and materials for next week tournament. However, the things that worries me the most is the second observation by my mentor, Madam Sa'adah.   Activities this week. The lesson and revisions conducted in this week are: FORM 4: This week we start learning new topic, Chapter 10 (INDEX NUMBERS). Due to its short contents, the chapter have already finished in just a week lesson. For this topic, it is related to economic educations, and I have been using examples from few suitable products, such as MCD, STARBUCKS, relating the topics with the things that these youngsters can relate to. The  STRENGTH  of my approach is it gave clear visions on the things they studied. but the apparent  WEAKNESS  is a h...

  Nothing extraordinary for this week, lessons are proceeding as planned, kind of giving me the times to breathe, calm before the storm of next week.   Activities this week. The lesson and revisions conducted in this week are: FORM 4: This week we proceed to finish up Chapter 3 (SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS), specifically 3.2 (SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS INVOLVING ONE LINEAR EQUATION AND ONE NON-LINEAR EQUATION). Same as the last week, I employ discovery learning method by letting the students to attempt each question themselves and compared their steps/solutions with their friends at the end of the sessions. As topic 3.2 is tad easier than 3.1 the student’s performance are generally better than before The  STRENGTH  of my approach is it encourages experimenting mathematical steps for the students. but the apparent  WEAKNESS  is a handful of the students cannot get past on certain questions as they have low analytical skills, requiring constant help from th...

This week are aimed for discussing on the formative test that the students have undergoes last week. FORM 5 students have shown improvement compared to their previous test while this is the first test for FORM 4, it can be said that majority of them perform well with a handful of students that required extra attention. Discussion on the test will only takes about 1 period for each class, the rest of the slot will be on new topics respectively.   Activities this week. The lesson and revisions conducted in this week are:   FORM 4: This week we proceed to Chapter 3 (SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS), specifically 3.1 (SYSTEM OF LINEAR EQUATIONS IN 3 VARIABLES). This topic is quite interesting and unique for my students, and this is due to the numerous combinations on the steps that they can opt for in solving it, which is differ from other topics which will be having standard solving methods. Thus, each of them might attempt different methods from their peers and arrived at the same final sol...