4th Lecture: ETEMS (English for Teaching Math & Science)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Salam all...pejam celik2 almost 1 month we have been here but I still cannot remember all your name guys hehehe...and also we got so many assignments which to be done within 2 months (waa...so tough) but it's ok because this is for our future right? so don't give up, be happy and all the best!! cayuk2...
First thing in today's lecture, Ms.Chin informed us about the correction in the course outline (marking scheme), there are:
1-assessment 40% :
- 20% IWB (Interactive White Board)
- 10% group assignment
- 10% blogging
2- final exam 60%

what I learned?
Our new topic is ETEMS or English for Teaching Math & Science.. ETeMS has been proposed as an urgent interim measure to ensure that teachers of mathematics and science (MST) will have basic capacity to use English as the medium of instruction. Bearing in mind the limited duration of interaction, ETeMS is not to be regarded as a complete language development course, but rather, one of several support mechanisms introduced by the Ministry of Education to encourage the MST (Mathemetics and Science Teacher) to further develop their English language competence to a level that will engender optimal performance in and outside the classroom.

The related website is http://www.tutor.com.my/tutor/etems/ thru this website we can search all about ETEMS in term of the purposes or objectives, the structure of ETEM programmes, and module contents. According to the history this programme was started at 2002 and slowly but surely in my opinion this programme is running smoothly and it can lead students and MST to be more confident and successful in their life.

Furthermore, I see this programme really helpful and effective especially to improve the communication of students and teachers in English. As what our former PM said, on the global front, developments and advances in scientific and technological advances began to make its impact as more and more of our graduates found it difficult to get the job they wanted simply because they were not proficient in English. It was also becoming increasingly challenging to translate the latest technological developments into Bahasa Malaysia. For example, in Chemistry, since the beginning of the 1990s, more than 1million articles have appeared in specialized journals every 2 years.

Besides, there are so many sources,useful guideline and techniques in this website espesially for MST, for example we can go to the Utusan Malaysia education portal where we can find many sample of questionnes and past exam papers for PMR, SPM,and STPM. we also can link to this website http://myschoolnet.ppk.kpm.my which there are so many useful information about ETEMS for teachers, students and the management.

I do hope all these information can help us to be a good teacher and I really want to improve my English...

What I Questionned?
1-Why then the sudden focus on English for both Math & Sc?
2-How the effective of ETEMS and how the response?
3-What the history behind the concept of ETEMS?

K chow ~ see you then and for Ms. Chin wishing u a very Happy Chinese New Year!! GoNg Xi Fa ChAi!!

3rd Lecture:TeChNoLoGy & SmArT ScHoOL (Sekolah Bestari)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Salam...This is our 3rd lecture with Ms. Chin..Today she distributed to all of us a questionnaire regarding this subject and she asked us to fill up all the questionnaire and submit it at the end of the class.

What I Learned?

Our Lecture begin with a new topic: Technology..we know that throughout this 20th century ICT become a necessary thing in our life.We should know how to use this 'miracle' technology or otherwise we will left behind. Nowadays, even children in age 4 years old know how to explore it....

By using a smart board, Ms.Chin start her lecture with the new topic; Technology. In his topic we learned the definition of the Technology. We can divide the definition into five; there are technology as object, technology as knowledge, technology as activities, technology as a process and technology as a sociotechnical system.

Besides, we also learned how technology really important in our life and the complementation of technology in career and it effect to the employers and employees.Secondly, Ms.Chin taught us about the learning model, as a student and becoming teacher we should know this model in order to achieve goals and balance in our life.In order to see the successful of all these learning models, we should draw the model strategies (technique and methodology which we can use to teach students in ICT) which suitable with their needs and socio-economic background. This is because the way people live and even think, depends upon their background conditions, therefore it will easy to students to learn and understand the topic.

In addition, there are four families of model; behavioral, information processing, personal, and social model. Both of model strategies and families of model must be evaluated by a teacher either in formative (such as quiz, question and answer session in the class, etc) or in summative (such as mid term, final exam,PMR, SPM, STPM), after that we can recognize and know the implementation and the impact of our model and strategies.

After that we learned about the smart school (sekolah bestari). We can link to the website easily by clicking to the 'web links' in Yahoo Group and then all the websites which registered under 'web link' will appear and one of them is www.msc.com.my/smartschool , then click to this hyperlink and we can search all about smart school in term of its definition‚ characteristics‚ objectives‚implementation‚ policies and concepts.

Before our class finished, we search little bit about school net at http://www.myschoolnet.ppk.kpm.my/ . In this website we can find a lot of information about the school net in term of; teachers, school administration and the students. Ms. Chin also teaches us how to add link into our Yahoo Group. The steps are:

1-click to 'add link' in Yahoo Group

2-type the URL http://www.myschoolnet.ppk.kpm.my/

Additionally, what I felt lucky and amazing today is when this was my first time see and watch how Ms. Chin use a smart board in our lecture. ermm….how to use it? I'm sill not understand but I wish I would learn it later.

After finished her lecture, Ms.Chin asked us to finish up our previous blog.

What I Questionned?

1-How to add my blog to the class blog ?

Assalamualaikum...

Assalamualaikum and very happy hari-hari to all my lecturers of PJFD5101 and all my new friends in Diploma of Education 08...nice to meet you all and wishing you ahlan wasahlan and all the best !! I'm glad to be here.Me is Faridah Mohamad Nasir an i'm graduated from IIUM in Arabic Language & Literature. I think it is enough for the introduction... :-) what i want to write here is what i learned in this subject for week 01 in this faculty.

What I Learned?

This week I learned how to create Yahoo Group and Blog..in my opinion this subject is really important to us especially to a teacher. First of all we had divided into 3 groups which each groups has 01 instructor; Ms.Chin, Cik Umi & Prof.Dr. Saedah Siraj.

Firstly Ms.Chin tought us how to register in a Yahoo Group (YG), which by using this YG it easy to us to refer any lecture notes and information regarding this subject...how to create YG? first thing is go to this website:http://uk.groups.yahoo.com,then click on 'join this group' and after that sign in our yahoomail address (makesure we sign up first in yahoomail)...furthermore if we want to add any info about ourselves just click to 'add record' and fill up the questions.

After finishing registered in YG, Ms.Chin asked us to create our own blog. In order to have a blog we must sign up to gmail (google mail) first..after signing and filling up all the requirements in gmail only then we can create our own blog.The steps are as follows:

Firstly, go to http://www.blogspot.com/ and follow all the steps; name the title of blog and blog URL.The benefits of using the blog are we can share any information with our links such as class notes, experiences, ideas.Besides, we can discuss with our friends and it easy to us to study and make revision together.

Last but not least, thanks to all especially Ms. Chin because they are willing to help me in order to finish up my first task.

This is my new lesson for me and of course i felt so excited to be one of the DipEd UM community.

That all.

Thank you

wassalam wailalliqa'......