Critical Reflection

Critical Reflection 2 (The Selection of Materials)

The selections of the materials for our syllabus are based on current trend or issue. Most of the teacher nowadays is using the internet to find sources for their teaching. We utilized the internet sources and improvise it so it will be suited with the activities that we have come out with. We use videos which we believed can help a lot to maximize the learning process. Some of us learn better while watching something. These people fall under visual learner category. We choose to download videos from youtube because it is very easy to get and we can download it for free which is very financial friendly. Our course is meant to help our students and we don’t charge them at all. So we need to try to cut down the budget. We also adopt and adapt some of the exercises from books and internet journals. It is very convenient and easy to get because there are thousands of interesting article that can be useful that we can take from the internet.

The videos and sounds such as the songs that we have chosen is not a complicated materials. Which means the students can easily understand the message and be able to cope with the activity. The materials that we have chosen are intended to enhance the students speaking and listening skills.

In conclusion we hope that all of the materials that we have gathered will be effective enough to help us to achieve the goal and the objective for each lesson. Hopefully we will be able to fully utilize them and help to maximize students’ learning process.

Critical Reflection 3 (Reflection of Progress)

The progress of developing the syllabus is smooth and we don’t have too much trouble dealing with it. We managed to finish the whole mapping and come out with suitable activity or task for each topic that we have chosen.

We already sort out all of the materials that we have gathered from the internet with specific task. Each material will be used for their intended purposes. We use power point presentation to deliver the lesson. It is a very popular medium that has been used by most of the teacher nowadays. The students can understand better and can cope with the lesson easily since they might have been exposed to it before during school level.

We have discussed with each other on which material will be best to suit with each objective of the lesson. It is a vital process because we need to be able to understand how can we utilize the materials and can manipulate it to the maximum level.

The process of sorting the material and try to link it with the objective of the lesson can be tricky but with a proper plan it can be done easily. We don’t have much trouble in agreeing with each other ideas. We also sometimes agree to disagree with each other which I think is healthy because it is part of making a decision.

In conclusion, the process of developing the syllabus has come to an end since we already managed to sort out the goals and objectives with suitable activity using suitable materials. Hopefully it will help the students to enhance their skills through these activities that we have come out with especially their listening and speaking skills.