During my practical session, I was assigned at Sekolah Kebangsaan Bohor Mali. Within 3 months, I taught English for Primary 3. SKBM is a small school. Most of my pupil’s backgrounds are from middle class life.
First time step in the class, I felt very nervous as my heart pounding so hard. It seems they were excited to welcome me to their class. For the first month, my teaching techniques were so weak. As these were my first experiences taught pupils formally, I had faced with many difficulties. My biggest problem was class control. It’s hard to me to make class in control. Pupils in my class were very hyperactive. They can’t sit still at their place, play around and run in the class. I had met my guidance teacher, Mr.Md Zain discussed about the problem. He suggested me to try being more strict and fierce during teaching. “You must got their attention if you wants they listen to you”, said my guidance teacher. I planned to use reward and punishment technique. I decided to form 5 groups. Each member of the groups will be selected by me. I want each groups contain pupils with different abilities so that intelligent pupils can helps other pupils learn during English class. The group which behaved well and can perform during my class will be rewarded. While if one of the group members make noise and disturbed other pupils, the whole group members will be punished. From time to time I monitor the class performance. As a result, now I can manage to control the class very well. Now I felt my teaching technique improved very well even though not 100% but I am proud of myself.
The next problem I had faced was pupils understanding. Since SKBM was a rural school, they were not exposed very well about English. Sometimes I tried asking my pupils about English subject. They said English subject was very difficult to understand. They were not interested learn this subject. I have done many interesting activities during my class to make English subject more enjoyable. For examples groups’ activity cut and paste, drawing, colouring and singing. From my point of view, children like to do activities during learning. Besides that, I had used teaching aids as my tools to help me during teaching process. I used simple English words so my pupils can manage to understand my instructions and explanation. I tried to speak in English and encouraged them to speak English too. My efforts worth since my pupils show their interests in learning English. They were tried to speak English now.
That was my memorable thing happened during my practical session. Even I had faced much kind of problems but with support from friends and guidance from my guidance lecturer and teacher, I can manage to overcome the problem. I am really proud of myself.
