Monday, May 5, 2008

REMEMBER ACTION RESEARCH

How is everyone coping?
Hope all the usm pkpg tesolians are fine, and not in the well yet, hehehee.
Just want to remind you that we have to do our action research now and hand in the final product in the 1st week of June. Not much time left, friends after the exams and holidays... so better hurry if you haven't started. I heard that Su & gang have finished theirs... really?
Please keep sending us your news so that we'd know what's happening to the others.
Good luck everyone.
All the best in all your undertakings.

2 comments:

Nadia said...

tesolian usmers have a blog? Sweet!

Boon Yew said...

Ah Lew and Boon Yew have to change title liao. We felt that our title is not suitable for our classes.

We were suppose to study on bad pronunciation of english in classroom in an intermediate class but now that both of us got super good classes, the title seemed a bit not too appropriate.

So now we study into the use of crossword puzzle to enhance the learning of adjectives that will help student to write more creatively in creative writing.

We have run the pre-test and going to run our post-test with remedy and then we're off to analyse our observations and generate reports for it.

On school, both of us have two super good classes each. I get Form4SA3 and 4SB1, while Shu Ren gets Form 4SA4 and 4SB3. These classes have students who speak good English and they read TheStar everyday, all of them. They come from different backgrounds. Some parents are super rich but some are hawkers and other ordinary wage eaners. But they have one thing in common, their children are in the same class, smart kids.

So far, I've not been challenged intelligently by these super students yet. They are all too engrossed in and concentrating on their exam which starts on Tuesday. But after the term hoildays, both of us shall see some form of smart hostilities coming from them. Hehehehehehe...

Dr Tan has come to observed us both. Gave strong recommendations to us on our lesson plans :-D But generally, rather satisfied for the first observation. Oh, both of us will help one teacher to mark exam scipts later. She happens to be my ex-colleague when I was in Penang Free School.

I never know that people will know me in that new environment. I was surprised when I found out that in fact, many English teachers in there actually know who I am!!!! Scary lar.... Oh, our senior, Teh, Ng Seng Huat's mate, is there with us. He's very supportive. Gave us guidance on many matters, especially on our action research. Thanks to him, really.

I stop here now. I'll write when I have the time. Take care and enjoy yourselves. TATA!!!