reflection
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REFLECTION ON THE CASE STUDY
SOLEHAH BINTI MOHAMMAD RODZE
I had been assigned to carry out a project in a group of three. The three of us
are me, Husna and Atikah. When we got the task, we had a discussion first and
agreed to write our problems that we had observed in our life, be it at our old school,
the school around us or the problems we faced during our School Based Experience
(SBE) program. We started to resource the samples of certain case studies also from
the internet and how to write a case study. After that, Atikah offered herself to do the
problem statement because she had already thought of a problem she had observed
during her SBE program. What we learnt from this is with cooperation and being able
to contribute when others are clueless, will make the work complete faster.
One of the good signs of a successful task is discussion. Surely people will be
saying, completing task individually will be faster than in group, but in group work we
have to tolerate with every suggestion from the group member. We learn to be
tolerant and be more open minded towards ideas that are rather different from us and
perhaps not to our liking. Instead of building emotional barriers, we learn to push
aside our feelings and try to justify the advantages and the disadvantages of the
ideas from other people. We use our mind to consider the ideas that will lead our
group to success and not our emotion to disagree with people’s opinion and force
others to accept our opinion.
When Atikah had already done her part, I offered myself to do the causes of
the problems and Husna would be doing the solutions’ part. This is because Husna
can quote better and elaborate the solutions that are suggested by educationists in
order to help control the problems that happened in classrooms. We decided to write
the essay first. So, after writing my essay, we gave it to Atikah to be edited. This was
to make sure that no errors were committed and my essay fulfilled the requirement of
the assignment’s question. So I learnt to be careful in completing and editing my
assignment. Moreover, I made sure that my work had its quality by adding more
citations from the articles I referred to when making assignments. My essay would
look like academic writing rather than a chain of my own ideas when I added citations
because my argument would be valid when it was based on works from scholars.
After we had finished our essay, we started working on our Power Point
presentation. I tried to simplify my ideas. When I sent my part to Atikah, she asked
me to simplify my part again, as simple as possible. Then I learnt to be very simple
yet precise in my presentation by not adding too much information because our own
goal is to make our audience understand our case study.
When I got to read the problem statement, I learnt that young teachers are
always made as the targets of naughty pupils. As they are quite and some of them
are being nice to pupils, the pupils take advantage on them and fool the teachers. A
lot of troubles were caused in this case which would ruin the reputation of the
teacher. Perhaps parents and the society will never trust teachers to teach their
children again. A teacher once advised me to wear a fierce face whenever I start
entering a classroom so that pupils will never dare to be naughty in the classroom.
The second thing that I learnt from the case study is I should have proper time
management in preparing my class for a lesson. This is shown when the teacher was
going to set up the projector after she entered the class. She did not ask the help
from any technicians, which made her to spend a long time focusing on the projector.
Unintentionally, she lost control of the pupils. The pupils were not assigned with any
tasks to keep them at their place. So the pupils kept talking and going out from their
seats. So if I enter class next time, I will always check my time and prepare first
before starting my lesson.
The third thing that I learnt is it is okay to give pupils a bit sense of autonomy,
but not too much. For example, the teacher asked the pupils to decide the
punishment when actually she was the one who needed to decide the punishment.
Therefore, the punishment became unfair and one pupil was hurt in an accident.
Therefore, I must be moderate between being firm and being close with pupils so that
any unwanted incident will not happen during my lesson.
In conclusion, this task had taught me many things from the lessons I gained
from working in group until the efficient ways that I must take in handling classrooms.
Hopefully the experience that I gained can be used on my future days as a teacher.