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Types Of Process Skills
Apr 29th
What is S.P.S & Types of Process Skills
Science precess skills can be divided into two classes: the basic science process skills and the integrated scinece prodess skills. Classification of science process skills (SPS). Observing is the most basic skill, whereas experimenting is the uppermost process skill.
What is Basic Science Process Skills?
Basic science processes involve analysis and empirical procdures that are used in scientific practical work and in everyday life. A child shows understanding of a basic science skill if her or she is able to observe, classify, measure and use numbers, make inferences, predict, communicate and use the space-time relationship.
What is Integrated Science Process Skills?
Integrated science prodess skills are complex precesses that combine two or more basic science precesses. This means that the student requires the ability to think at a higher level because he needs to consider more than one thougt simultaneously. Thus, basic science precess skills are the precondition for integrated science precess skills. Integrated science skills are necessary for carrying out experiments. These intergrated skills are to assess information, define operationally, control variables, make hypotheses and conduct experiments.
What are the Importance of Science Process Skills?
Science educators are of the opinion that learning science precess skills menas ‘learning how to learn’. Children learn through critical thinking and by using information creatively. They discover the learning method when making wise observations, organising and analysing facts and concepts, and assessing the experiment results as well as by making inferences based on proof obtained. Children also learn to predict what would happen of the situation governing a natural phenomenon changes.
Hari Bumi 2009
Apr 22nd
Cikgu Harus Mengajar Murid Mencintai Bumi
2009, 22 April: Hari ini ialah Hari Bumi , kita melihat bagaimana The Green Generation CampaignTM yang akan fokus pada Festival Loving Earth. Dengan perjanjian iklim global yang baru disetujui pada Desember lalu, Hari Bumi 2009 harus menjadi hari tindakan dan penglibatan semua lapisan masyarakat, untuk membela prinsip The Green GenerationTM iaitu Cinta Bumi, Kasih Bumi dan Tolong Bumi.
* Kurangkan karbon bebas pada masa akan datang berdasarkan energi yang akan berakhir. Jangan kita terlalu bergantung pada bahan bakar fosil, termasuk batubara. Gunakan energi yang boleh diperbaharui.
* Setiap komitmen untuk bertanggung jawab menjaga bumi berlanjutan ke generasi muda baru.
* Ciptaan baru dalam ekonomi hijau yang akan membantu setiap orang keluar dari kemiskinan dengan menciptakan jutaan pekerjaan berkualiti dan juga mentransformasikan sistem pendidikan kepada global hijau.
Di bawah payung dari The Green GenerationTM, ribuan acara pada saat ini sedang direncanakan di sekolah-sekolah, masyarakat, desa dan kota-kota di seluruh dunia. Kami ingin membuat Hari Bumi bermakna dan menanti waktu untuk berubah. Jadi daftarlah diri sebagai seorang pencinta alam untuk mengembalikan dan memberikan bumi kembali ke masyarakat sedunia!
Apakah Trend Pendidikan Hari Ini ?
Apr 20th
Cabaran Yang Hebat Kepada Pendidik Hari Ini
Salam Sejahtera kepada semua pembaca blog ini. Saya sebagai admin cikgublog ingin menyuarakan soalan-soalan yang telah ditanya oleh pembaca blog ini. Soalan yang ditanya kadang-kadang susah dijawab kerana tiada maklumat lengkap yang diberikan dan juga melibatkan sebahagian sahaja dan bukan semua pihak. Kalau saya memberi pandangan saya berpandukan maklumat yang belum lagi disahkan atau hanya sebagai tidak puas hati kepada sesuatu pihak sahaja, ini akan memberi kesan yang buruk atau situasi yang kurang selesa kepada semua pihak.
Maka sebelum saya beri sebarang komen atau pandangan, saya ingin membuat beberapa analisis berdasarkan jawapan yang akan atau mungkin diberi oleh pembaca blog ini terutamanya cikgu-cikgu.
Soalan-Soalan Yang Telah Ditanya Oleh Pembaca:
1) Bagaimana untuk menambahbaikan lagi program PPSMI?
2) Kenapa subjek elektif tidak diambil berat?
3) Kenapa program pendidikan di Universiti tidak dititikberatkan?
4) Bagaimana untuk menambahbaik lagi Pendidikan Khas?
5) Apakah peranan cikgu dalam kawalan disiplin?
6) Apakah kebaikan dan kelemahan Program KPLI?
Kalau anda mempunyai pandangan atau jawapan kepada soalan-soalan ini, anda diberi peluang untuk menulis komen anda di blog ini. Pendapat anda amat dihargai. Sekian terima kasih daripada admin cikgublog.
The skills of the class teacher
Apr 10th
Listening Effectively and Questioning Skills
As a class teacher you will need to hone your personal and communication skills. In particular your listening skills, your questioning skills, your ability to give complex and difficult explanations and your ability to end classes effectively. Below are some useful hints:-
Listening effectively
- Try to keep an open mind and listen to what is actually said.
- Listen for meaning. For example a student maybe asks you a muddled question about a small detail. Actually, what s/he may be telling you is that s/he is completely lost and doesn’t understand this at all – or this student may be dyslexic.
- Try not to pre-empt what a student is saying, by cutting them off mid-question and giving them an answer to a problem as you see it. As much as possible, let them explain their uncertainties and confusions. According to a reasonable body of the Higher Education research literature, concept development often requires that students first understand how the new ideas presented fit on to what they already know, and IF the new concept requires them to let go of some previous understanding, this needs to be actively acknowledged (ie: you can’t simply overlay a new and contradictory set of ideas before the old ones have been explored and deconstructed).
- Try to find a workable balance between, on the one hand, thinking ahead in the discussion in order to maintain the flow and focus and, on the other, being overly directive and forcing the discussion along your set path.
Questioning skills
There are a number of techniques you can use to encourage students to ask questions and to open up discussion.
The most obvious is to draw on students’ questions and comments and to enlarge upon them with your own remarks. What do you do if the subject matter is new and your students are too? You may want to jot down several statements or questions beforehand and use these as a springboard.
For many quantitative subjects, you may want to plan out a sequence of short questions aimed at helping students work their way through a problem, or grasp a better understanding of a theory or model. A number of class teachers in Economics, Maths, Statistics and Accounting and Finance use this approach. Some will go round the class more or less sequentially, so students know when their “time” to answer is approaching and can prepare. Others take a more random approach, calling on people by name. Yet others ask questions to the group as a whole, and let whoever wishes to respond.
Malaysian Teachers Pedagogical Skills
Apr 4th
Malaysian Teachers Upgrade Pedagogical Skills, Improve Teaching Outcomes with Intel Teach Programme.
Traditional methods of teaching in Malaysia were inadequate in preparing students to face a rapidly moving towards future. Acknowledging this trend, the Malaysian Government’s Vision 2020 plan places special emphasis on integrating technology into education as a result, computers and broadband access being introduced into schools.
Intel Teach is a worldwide effort to help teachers effectively integrate technology into instruction, and the programme has trained more than four million teachers over 40 countries worldwide since 2000. Lecturers, teachers and students are benefiting from this programme, it is a powerful pedagogical tool to prepare our sudents for the 21st century.
Malaysia became the first country in South-East Asia to successfully implement the Intel Teach Programme when it was launched in 2000. Within the first two years, the programme exceeded its target of 12,000 primary and secondary school teachers. The programme aligns with Malaysia’s school ‘Computerization’ and ‘Smart School’ initiatives, with the content localized and adapted to suit the needs of the local educational system, teachers and students.
Schools like Institut Perguruan Perempuan Melayu (IPPM) also realized that they needed professional training. The Intel Tech Programme is part of Malaysia’s efforts in transforming professional education for teachers; and for many who have embraced the programme, like IPPM Teacher Nur Farah Gan Abdullah.
Spotlight: Institut Perguruan Perempuan Melayu, Melaka set up in 1935, IPPM Melaka is the oldest teacher training institution in Malaysia and focuses on training Malay Muslim women especially for rural schools in Malaysia.
For more information on IPPM, visit www.ippm.edu.my
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