Ninth class reflection

Assalamualaikum and hello.

Patience and strong optimistic spirit in enduring the fasting month trial and challenges becomes a good experience in this life endeavor. It helps to mould a person to become a person with good characteristic in terms of spiritual, intellectual, physical and emotional. In other words, fasting month is a place to train my hearts and mind besides practicing myself to become subservient to the right path which can help me to become a successful individual. In the context of learning, it is crucial for every individual to train their hearts and mind so that they can cope with today’s globalization and knowledge explosion. One of my favourite concept of motivation in enduring life challenges is being optimistic or in the Islamic approach known as ‘husnud dhan’ which means thinking good.

In the first part of the ninth class, lecturer talked about the evaluation or in other word the assignments. It helped to pinpoint some of the problem and misunderstanding regarding the assignments. Hopefully there will not be any more confusing matters in myself regarding the task and assignments. I believed I have to take more effective and push myself to complete the task. I must use the optimistic approach in order to effectively complete all the task and assignments.

Learning involves adding and constructing new schemata or knowledge apart from reconstructed previous knowledge. I learned new things in the ninth class which include theoretical aspects of the teaching and learning process particularly on the suitability and appropriateness of applying specific teaching and learning materials, methods, style and approach which in turn affect the future learning experience of the primary pupils. Besides that, lecturer also introduced about new website named http://www.onetruemedia.com. Its is an alternative video making website which utilize three simple words namely ‘upload’, ‘choose a style’ and ‘wow everyone’. It was new and interesting for me. The interface looked beautiful and what most attractive is that, its easy and free (the main criteria). Instead of mind boggling thinking about what to choose and how to apply the effects and all sort of animation, this website lets its user to just choose the style as in its simple terms applied, and latter leave the rest for them to do the work. The product was good in the sense that, it looked professional even though the people who upload the pictures for the video making was just a computer newbie or beginner with a very little scanty knowledge of computer (more than just knowing about basic computer skills) like me. Furthermore, it can be used for the teaching and learning material in the classroom. Besides that, we can also teach other teachers in the future schools about the use of such application for their personal gain of knowledge or improving their teaching and learning process.

All in all, it was beneficial and learning new things definitely challenges the minds and heart. Motivation supported with good characteristics helps to cope with the trial and demanding situations. Thank you.