microteaching

15th December - 24th December 2008 marked the two weeks of immeasureable length of tiredness, full of boring trainers delivering interesting issues, creating glass puppet out of boredom,  and teaching a class of people who are more or less the same age as my dad, and were his colleagues once upon a time! as the practical part of the training.. 

So, the training, known as pedagogy training is designed for the new teaching staff. It has 4 parts, from OBE(1) to art of teaching(2) to assesments and evaluations(3) are among the useful topics taught. 

The fourth part would be the practical, which is microteaching(4). we were given 1/2 hour to teach any subject, by applying the theories taught in the previous lessons ( except for the 3rd part). 

okay, so for me, im bored to death listening to all the subjects that were very technical in nature.. like landing gear, vb.net, helicopter, automotive, projectile motion, etc..hey, im an english lecturer, how am i going to understand all those within 1/2 hour..goshh

so, my turn came, and i taught them poetry: brief history and 4 simple poetic devices (rhyme, simile, metaphor & personification). thats it, with few examples, and afterward, in groups, these students had to create a poem, using any of the poetic devices taught. before the class ended, they had to recite their poems.. and i can see that, everybody was laughing and enjoying the class so much. 

later on, i asked the trainer who was evaluating us, on my peformance. he answered " u r above average" 

YAY! thats cool and great! - for a young and inexperienced lecturer . and a week later, one of the technical lecturers said that i was good because he still remember the poetic devices taught though it was the first time for him to join a poetry class.. hehe thats even better for me!  

this is one of the poems from the poetry class by En. Razif:

poetic devices: Metaphor

title: You Are

You are the rose in a sea of thorns

you are the sun that shines when I'm down

you are the light that glows in the dark

you are who I am in love with

eventhough we are apart

you are always in my heart

24th Dec 2008, IOI resort