Be realistic

Be realistic. It was the topic that I had learnt this week. Actually, each group was given different topic and my group need to summarize on the topic of 'Be realistic'.

To make things easier, we had divided the subtopics to be read among ourselves and my friend, Sakina and I need to summarize on this subtopic.

Based on the article given, it was mentioned that teachers should be realistic in choosing activities to suit the pupils' mood. They need to consider pupils' emotion while conducting the teaching and learning activities so that learning can take place effectively as they are enjoying and participating actively during the lesson.

Besides that, teachers need to adjust the middle of the lesson to fit the class mood. For example, if the pupils are restless and bored, the teacher ought to conduct some fun listening practices or games like 'Simon Says' to rejuvenate the pupils towards the lesson. Yes, I agree that teachers have to be creative and inovative while conducting a lesson to ensure full participation and focus among the pupils towards the lesson. As we already know, children have short attention span, so, teachers need to be realistic enough to attract pupils' attention from beginning until the end of the lesson.

Moreover, teachers have to be flexible in teaching. They need to adjust the time allocation while conducting certain teaching and learning activities in the classroom. For instance, they can shorten the time allotted for an activity if the pupils have lost their interest in doing the activity. This is to avoid pupils from being boring and start to make noise in the classroom.

Furthermore, teachers ought to change a pair work activity into a whole class activity to enable full participation among the pupils and to avoid some pupils from being bored since they are not participating.

In addition, teachers need to keep the lesson simple, reuse materials and idea to suit with the pupils' interest.