Today, yesterday, the day before yesterday etc could have been any other workday in my life as a teacher. Just a normal day passed by, going to classes, delivering my lessons etc.
But no, they were not. Because I became the student instead.
Taking the sensible advice of my students, I started restructuring my lessons to "teach less, learn more" since school term resumed in early Jul 2011.
Instead of me standing in front, going through tons of PPT slides while the students struggled to keep awake, I tried a different approach - I got them to present instead. What I did was to prepare some questions that required them to do case studies of the use of social media in various industries such as F&B, apparel etc. They had to form groups of two or three and brainstorm + research in the group to come up with a set of presentation slides that they need to share with the class in the next lesson.
This has turned out to be a really effective and engaging way for them to learn. In the process of preparing their slides, they learnt new things they never knew before, invoked their thought processes and formed insightful opinions that astounded me despite their young age. And like I said, I became the student instead, because I also gleaned new knowledge from the information they shared. And some of the things they presented were so interesting, I wish I had more time to listen!
And they keep getting better!
I am so heartened by the efforts of my students in preparing really good quality presentations as you can see that I am also inspired to write this blog entry after such a long 'break' since my last entry in early June!
Well done guys and gals, please keep up the good work! You make me so proud of you! :)
Some screenshots of the case studies PPTs, there were many many other good ones but no time to upload all! :)
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| Randy and Yixuan |
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| Peifang, Sya and Huien |
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| Camilla and Fifi |
