AED 105: Lesson Plan for Student-led Tutorial (Group Seminar Presentation)

Tutorial Group: TG10 Day/Time: Wednesday 1630-1830

Topic: Tutorial 4 – The professionals in Education: Who are the teachers?

Members: Carmen Chan, Cheung Man Wai, Ng Yu Juan, Joyce Yeo

Theme: Passion Vs Challenges – The NIE NOOSE (Entertainment News & Games reporting on teachers)Class organization: in their own groups according to topic presentation

Lesson Objectives:

1. Relate self-awareness and reflection to personal and professional discipline of being a teacher.2. Explore challenges faced by teachers and brainstorm possible ways to overcome them3. Invoke the hidden positive and negative attributes beneath the professionalism of teaching.

Proposed Schedule:

Time Activity RationalePresenter/Facilitator

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Studio NIE ‘Noose’ telecastTrigger - introductionIntroduction of group members, learning objectives and the agenda for this lesson.

Man Wai(Newscaster) reports on recent negative reports of student teachers/ teachers.

Allow student teachers have an idea of what to expect in today’s lesson.

To illustrate the fact that teachers are very closely scrutinized by the

CarmenJoyce

Man Wai

Powerpoint

Video showing media reports of

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*Outdoor InterviewAfter presenting the news reports Man Wai will interview the following people:

1. Young working mother in CBD (Carmen)2. Ms Graceful at MOE headquarters

(Joyce)3. Dr Ho Cin at NIE (Yu Juan)

1. Young working mother is appalled by the news and very worried about her child who is currently in school. She wonders how teachers are selected and trained.

Response: 2. Ms Graceful explains the selection process

of teachers and that some of them can gain valuable experience through relief or contract teaching before being recommended for teacher training at NIE. She emphasizes on the all rounded support given which helps in the development of professional values and attitudes for trainees and beginning teachers.

3. Dr Ho Cin provides information on the evolution of NIE’s ASK, VSK and V3SK framework, emphasizing a world class, holistic education for NIE trainees.She elaborates on NIE’s continuous effort in incorporating new values, skills and knowledge in teacher’s education over the years to ensure the pedagogy is current and relevant. From the old ASK model (Attitudes, Skills and Knowledge) to the VSK (Value,

media. That adds additional pressure to the professional challenge of teaching.

To clarify on the selection and rigorous training process for teachers.

Linking the interview activity in this lesson to readings in the text and the first learning objective.

Man WaiYu JuanCarmen Joyce

news on teachers

Powerpoint (to show all the main points from readings with regards to teachers’ selection/training & V3SK)

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Skills and Knowledge) framework, moving on to 6 recommendations to further incorporate new Values, Skills and Knowledge to the 21st century teachers’ education.

Man Wai summarizes the interview through reporting. She reminds the class the importance of upholding the standards of the teaching profession. It could be difficult to control anger, draw a distinctive line between personal life and private interest or lifestyle and relationships with students. Hence, It is important to practice self-awareness and reflection as part of their personal and professional discipline.

DevelopmentOutdoor Interview “LIVE”-NIE Campus – Roleplay

Carmen reports from NIE Campus. Student teachers are tasked to re-enact a given scenario. Student teachers will be grouped in their own seminar groups, they will be to. Each group will have 7 minutes to consider the challenges and suggest possible solutions to the problems. (Commercial break when student teachers discuss about the role-play activity)

Case 1:You are a new teacher who had just finished your degree in education. However, you soon to notice that you are struggling with the school's

This activity enables our fellow classmates to use real-life situations faced by beginning teachers to work out possible solutions.They might realize that sometimes there are no perfect solutions.The activity helps to prepare them mentally to face such issues when they are posted out to schools.

Man Wai

Carmen-presenter

FacilitatorsMan WaiYu JuanJoyce

Powerpoint slides

Camera

Slips of paper with the scenarios for each group.

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system and culture. Your HOD wants you to be a form teacher of a graduating secondary 4 class where at the same time, your school principal wants you to take over 2 CCA. You find that you are not able to keep up to the standard or expectation that your HOD or Principal wanted. What would you do?

Case 2:A teacher often led a busy lifestyle and finding it difficult to balance work and family. On a particular day, you had finished clearing all your work and decide to leave early for your child’s 1-year-old birthday party. Suddenly, your supervisor passes you a stack of un-marked paper and asks you to help complete it by tomorrow. As a beginning teacher, what will you do in this situation?

Case 3:As a new teacher, you were shocked to realized that the school which you are posted to decide to let you teach subject which you are not specialized in. You are specialized in Chinese languages but your school principal wanted you to teach primary 6 mathematic instead. How will you deal with this situation?

Case 4: A teacher often has to play many role in this teaching profession. During the “meet the parent session”, you are shocked to find out that the parents started blaming on you for

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their child poor academic and CCA performance. As a beginning teacher, what would you do if you have to handle difficult parents and student?

Facilitators and presenter assist each group in their planning.

Class acts out the scenarios and suggest possible solutions.

Carmen summarizes the activity by reporting that there are many ways to deal with difficult situations and teachers puts in their best effort to overcome all sorts of difficulties. Indeed this group of positive and passionate teachers of the future would find it easy to overcome the difficulties. However, if you were really in the situation for a long period of time, what will happen?Question is, will the passion last them throughout the next 10 years?

Studio ”NIE Prof” – Anagram Game

Presenter will explain rules and instructions for the class to play this game in their respective groups.Purpose - They will arrange alphabets found in head phrase “Professionalism’ to form words and phrases used in teaching and education arena. Expectation:

Moving on to a fun and engaging game with the purpose to symbolize the hidden attributes, both positive and negative, beneath the professionalism of teaching. Some of the words found may invoke conflicting thoughts on the passion towards teaching.game with the purpose to symbolize the

Presenter - JoyceTeam members as facilitators to guide the groups in the class

Anagram cut outs for 4 groups Construction paper to record the words and phrases formed Online stopwatch

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1) Minimum word length for one of the word or phrase should be 6 letters2) Each alphabet should be used only one ie there should be a maximum of 15 letters in the word or phrase.3) The word ‘professional’ is disallowed to encourage efforts to look beyond the obvious.4) Groups are to record on the construction paper provided and share findings at the end of the session.5) Groups have 5mins to work on this task. Groups work on this task. Using the visualizer, groups present their words/phrases found with the class. Presenter summarizes results of activity by highlighting good examples of words/phrases given by the groups and also those missed out.

Emphasize that the word ‘passion’ can be found in ‘professionalism’, so is the phrase ‘passion or lies’.

Provide 30seconds for class to self reflect if passion will last.

Highlights that passion may not be long lasting, instead it is power of conviction that enable one to last through an extended period of time,

Reiterates links of game to third learning outcome and the conflicts between a role model and a ‘holistic’ teacher as mentioned in the text book readings.

hidden attributes, both positive and negative, beneath the professionalism of teaching. Some of the words found may invoke conflicting thoughts on the passion towards teaching.

Visualiser List of words, which found from head phrase ‘professionalism’ using online anagram solver.

Powerpoint slides

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Closure Studio -”NIE Live” – Video clip “Passion VS Conviction’

Video clip of interview with a teacher will be shown in class. The clip reflects the possible problems and challenges that the school teacher encountered and how she eventually overcame those hurdles in the teaching arena.  

The videos also share with us how she continues to nurture the passion to teach despite all the ups and downs of her teaching career. 

Presenter mentions that there are another 2 videos, which they can view on the Facebook page.

ConclusionStudio - NIE NOOSERe-emphasize objectives: Passion VS Conviction

- Important that teachers are intrinsically motivated

- Passion dies off eventually, but how are we going to persevere on?

- NIE NOOSE has created a Facebook group (Teachers Support Group Tr10) for all beginning teachers in order for teachers to encourage and learn from each other.

The video clip provides a good opportunity for new student teacher to reflect upon and understand on how is it like to be in the teaching profession.

It also presents the possible problems that new student teachers might encounter in the future and serves as a consolidation of the meaning of professionalism.

The tips that the teacher shared in the videos will be helpful in guiding student teachers and better prepared them in the future.

Reiterates the conviction for teaching and the importance of having a support group for TG10.

Yu Juan 

Carmen Joyce

Video clip of a teacher from YSS

Facebook page

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