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REFLECTION

I had learnt a lot of things in the way to build the kit for my demonstration for my teaching and learning process for Language Arts subject by using song in the primary ESL classroom during the PBS (School-Based Experience) and also for my presentation of my lesson plan in my class.
First and foremost, for the song, I am producing my own lyric of the song based on the topic “Look at Me” under the theme “World of Knowledge”. I produce the lyric of the song by using the simple words as it is for primary school’s children. Wickham (2013) stated that based on the pedagogical principle, the teachers have to consider the student’s proficiency level. Teachers need to choose songs and poetry which are sufficiently simple in terms of grammar and vocabulary for our young learners to be able to grasp what they are about. My song is entitled “My Body is a Beauty” that focusing on the body parts and we have to appreciate our body and always be healthy because our body is precious. I choose the music of this song from the song “Let It Go”, in the Disney’s movie entitled Frozen as I sure that it will capture the student’s attention towards this song as the movie become trending nowadays. Based on Wickham (2013), students should be aware, and should be able to talk about the fact that we are all attracted to rhythm and beat and young children respond readily and often without inhibitions. Songs have the added attraction of pitch variations.
In my lesson plan for song, I also plan and create out some teaching materials for the students in a teaching kit. For this lesson, I had search a video that suitable to give an overview to the children about the topic that they will learn on that day entitled “Repeat the parts of the Body”. The p...

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...her, I have to work hard to be a good teacher in the future and to make sure that my teaching and learning process are effective to the children. I have to prepare a lot of teaching styles and activities during the teaching and learning process to become a good teacher and at the same time it will make my lesson fun and meaningful to the students. Besides that, as a future teacher also, I have to be creative in creating my lesson plan and make my teaching and learning process is fun and enjoyable to the students. For example, I have to create variations of activities in my lesson that can make the students become interested in something that I want to teach.
In a nutshell, from the experiences of the strength and the weaknesses I had found while making the kits will make me a better teacher in creating my lesson plan and also in teaching profession one fine day.

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