Keeping Kids Creative

Dear Readers,

We have all heard the buzzwords of the knowledge-based economy - creative, innovative, resourceful.We are told that our students will need these abilities, not just facts and figures, to thrive in the workplace of the future. And we,their teachers, need to equip them through creative teaching. Hence, here I try to unravel the nuts and bolts behind these ideas, to find out what creative teaching is all about and how it can be implemented in the classroom.

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Showing posts with label Report On TLC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Report On TLC. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2009

REPORT ON TLC 4


THE REPORT :
Date : 5th August 2009
Day : Wednesday
Venue : CCL Room, SK Batu Pekaka
Agenda : TLC 4

Today, two TLC members were absent : Puan Rohani and Mr Rozalee. They were involved with a short-noticed meeting for the senior assistants of their respective schools. The TLC meeting was carried out as usual even with the absence of the two members.

The activities done :
1. Discussions on the CCL lessons in schools and the updates of their portfolios and the pupils'
portfolios as well.
2. Their own journal entries
3. Planning to conduct a follow-up course on CCL to the other English teachers in the district.
This is to enable the TLC group members to share their experiences and information gained
when they attended the CLiPS course conducted by the JPN on 28th - 30th June 2009.
4.Sharing of activities done in their own schools eg : short sketches, choral reading, scrapbooks.

Even though the progress of the CCL lessons in the schools are rather slow, given time and support, I believe they will be able to come up with more interesting literature lessons in the near future. Thus, more moral support and encouragement should be given to these group of teachers so that the project-based literature lessons could be a reality.

To my TLC group members :
a million of thanks, appreciations and congratulations on the excellent work done and the collaborative-team work shown during the TLCs sessions. Hope this sharing sessions will be continued for a longer period.

Your TF :
Khalipah Mastura Khalid

Thursday, July 23, 2009

REPORT ON TLC 3




Planning on the ground rules.....
The most creative man in the group is
creating his masterpiece

Busy uploading their own journals to the blog
THE REPORT :
Date : 22nd July 2009
Day : Wednesday
Venue : CCL Room,
SK Batu Pekaka
Agenda : TLC 3
1. Discussion & sharing of experience on CCL lesson:
a. Problems Arise
b. Unexpected Incidents
2. Sharing of solution to the problems faced:
a. Brainstorming/Discussion
3. Our Blog
a. Introduction to blog
b. A sharing session on how to create their
own blogs
4. Take Home Task:
a. Upload some photos/reflection of their CCL
lessons

By : Khalipah Mastura Khalid
Teacher Facilitator

REPORT ON TLC 2

Baling/Sik TLC Group with their TF
Puan Khalipah Mastura KhalidKuala Muda Yan TLC Group with their TF
Puan Raja Azelina Puteri Sa'ban
Kulim/Bandar Bahru TLC Group with their TF Puan Karam Kour
The ELO and TFs :

1. Cik Bashirah Begum Zainul Abidin

2. Mr William Joseph Raj

3. Puan Fatimah Din

4. Puan Rajamal Tangom

5. Puan Khalipah Mastura Khalid

6. Puan Karam Kour


7. Puan Ani Aishah Fatimah Leong Abdullah

8. Puan Raja Azelina Puteri Sa'ban

THE REPORT :


Date : 30th June 2009 (Tuesday)
Venue : PSPN, Alor Star
Agenda : TLC 2

1. Ice breaking session
2.Introducing learning skills and strategies
3. Introducing 21st century skills.
4.Introducing stories in CCL
5. Introducing poems in CCL.
6.Brainstorming for different extended
projects that can be carried out using
Language arts.
7. Introducing mini and extended projects
a. Discussing issues and concerns.
b. Discussing ways to make extended and
mini projects creative and interesting.
c. Access web sites on the internet for
creative extended projects.
8. Take Home Task :
a. Transmediative activity with poems.

By :
Khalipah Mastura Khalid
Teacher Facilitator

REPORT ON TLC 1

Kulim/Bandar Bahru TLC Group with their
TF Mr William Joseph Raj
Kubang Pasu TLC Group with their TF
Puan Ani Aishah Fatimah Leong Abdullah

Kuala Muda Yan TLC Group with their TF

Puan Rajamal Tangom

Kuala Muda Yan TLC Group with their TF

Puan Fatimah Din

THE REPORT :

Date : 28th June 2009 (Sunday)
Venue : PSPN Alor Star,Kedah
Agenda : TLC 1

1. Ice-Breaking and Get-To-Know- Each Other
Session.
2. Teacher Learning Communities:
a. Developing ground rules through discussion.
b. Discussing the TLC and how it can work
towards professional sharing and professional
learning through PSS using the mind map
strategy.
c. Creating a tag line on the TLC
d. TLC Job list (Empowerment)
3. Presenting creative ways of teaching CCL .
a. Incorporating language arts into CCL
b. Using a CCL text to carry out transmediative
activities.
c. Issues and concerns about the teaching of
CCL using projects.
4. Viewing portfolios provided by TF
a. Discussing issues and concerns about
portfolios.
b. Discussing ways to make portfolios creative and interesting.
c. Reflecting on critical incidents or anecdotes that TF’s experienced in the duration of preparing the portfolios. Eg journal, pupil’s reflections.
d. Getting the members to start work on their journals based on the first TLC.

By :
Khalipah Mastura Khalid
Teacher Facilitator