Reflection School Based Experienced

SBE REFLECTION

Robert Gagne’s theory is very suitable to be used in Malaysian classroom. Based on my the experience of my first School Based Experience (SBE) in Sekolah Kebangsaan Padang Besar Utara, I’ve given a chance to enter the class to observe my mentor, Mrs. Liza conducting Teaching and Learning. I found that using the most of the lesson events proposed by Robert Gagne. For the first lesson event that is gaining attention, the she used the method of role-play. She teach the song entitled Moly and Nat from year 1 English Textbook. Moly is the mouse and Nat is the cat. So before starting the lesson, she enter the class and act as mouse and also cat. She actually want to gain the students’ attention because students will feel interested to study by doing this. For second lesson event that is provide learning objective, Mrs Liza read the objective to the pupils so that pupils know what knowledge they should get. 

Beside, Mrs Liza also stimulate and recall the prior knowledge of the pupils. She asked the pupils to do the sound of cat and also mouse. By doing this, pupils can recall their knowledge about what are mouse and cat look like and how they sound. For the next lesson event that is presenting the materials, Mrs Liza used the flash cards as the teaching aids for the lesson in the classroom. She used two flashcards that were flashcard with the picture of mouse and another another one is the picture of cat. By doing this, pupils will know the physical looks of cat and mouse. This is important because this school is situated in the rural area. So, for sure there are certain pupils that do not know how cat and mouse look like. 

Next, Mrs Liza also provide guidance for lesson to every pupils. This is to make sure that all her pupils can follow the lesson. There is one slow learner student in her class named Aiman. Aiman having difficulty in following the lesson in the class. So Mrs Liza give more attention to him. Once in glimpse, she will approach Aiman to guide him. She also keep asking Adam if he understand the lesson. For the elicit performance lesson event, Mrs Liza do not use this lesson event. I cant see she use any approach or techniques or method regarding to this lesson event. So, in my opinion, Mrs Liza should call or choose few pupils randomly on the spot and then ask them question regarding to the topic of the lesson. This is to make sure whether they are alert or not. For providing feedback, Mrs Liza ask the class if the pupils have any question. Beside she also ask certain questions regarding to the topic. This is to make sure pupils get what they learn. Next, Mrs Liza ask the pupils to do the exercise in the Year 1 English activity book for the lesson event of assess performance. For retaining the memory, Mrs Liza ask again the pupils how the cat and mouse sound like. This is to make sure they remember it for long time. The other special thing of this school is every Monday after the assembly, The Headmaster, Mr Zainorin will call all the teachers to gather at the office. During this time, he will give comment on teacher’s performance and achievement in the past week. This is important for teacher to improve themselves.