Night Class, TITAS and Exam

It have being sometimes that I have not update my blog...well, next week, I will have night class for TITAS non-stop until coming Friday; This is because credit hours have not being fulfill...left one paper work to finish which is GERKO

A few weeks to go, I will have my Semester Examination; Well, I honestly not well prepare for it, because I just finish doing my assignments thou; plus next week I will have TITAS exam...

degree's life... hmmm : S, now I have understood about it >.<

Holidays End...

So, today end my holiday. Time files indeed. Many have happen in this two weeks when I am back home for my school based experience (SBE) at SK. St. Anne together with my assignments; I cannot call this a holiday because much to be done. This post is did with because my friend request me to post about my school based experience. Well..so let start...

The above picture is our group photo. Many people right? let count...one, two...14 people, you are correct; I was amaze myself too when I first walk into the principal office on the 1st day of SBE. They are all Sarikeian anyway, just like me =); what differ us all is that we studied at different IPGs. However, my task for SBE is totally different from all of them, I am doing philosophy of education while all of them are doing Child Development...Well, I won't bother about that now since I need to finish lot of paper work now.

notice the above picture properly, the main focus is nt my friend but the TV!!! PK1 open it for us...

The above is the place where the school let us teacher trainee do our job daily; This is the few photos for today...I will continue to post about my SBE experience soon...

Class that I visited for my survey...that kid just like to be photograph haha =)
[more on this is the next post, hopefully I have time]

That's me and the kid...He love to smile, wasn't he? XD

3.53, a pointer that I was never expected for my Final Exam for TESL Foundation

It was still a shock and a surprise to me that I can obtain such a pointer in my foundation; This is because for me it is impossible for me to obtain such pointer...Plus, for me this is definitely miracle from God, this is because i didn't expect that I will do well in my English Studies and Language Description. Prayer before exam indeed and always show to me that God is always with us. Furthermore, I really didn't expect that I did this good, this is because for my English Studies paper, there were unseen poem and unseen story...Thank be to God for the good result.

Now I am preparing my heart to study for degree next year...

The day after tomorrow

Later on, I will have my English Studies exam, starting from 2.30pm; Well every TESLian for my batch have waiting the day after tomorrow to come, this is because our holiday have begin after that; We are also official finish our Foundation B.Ed TESL course for three semester or one and a half year =D. I know I haven't take much photos at the town that I stayed for the last three semester; Well, I guess I will start taking it after my final paper tomorrow (Social Studies to be exact). While I am still typing this post, everyone is still sleeping and get enough rest for the afternoon paper later on, well...I still revising because I felt that I didn't revise a lot. Have a blast for your weekdays and May God bless you who reading the post! Adios Amigos!!!

Revise my Semester three Social Studies make me sleepy

Just wake up from a short hour nap after receive a call from my English Studies lecturer, Mr.Vasu. Regarding his Deevapali holiday. My Semester three social studies notes that I received from my former Social Studies lecturer, really make me feel sleepy after reading it and well as understanding it. I think this is because most of the notes very being taught in class during my social studies class, since we are having a new lecturer this semester. However, due to this, later on I will continue to revise on my semester one and two social studies notes; Since reading Semester three easily make me feel steeply compare to the other semester. While reading this, I hope that my coursemates in my class also doing now t00 =D, all the best to them again :D.

Two exams to go!!!!

I have return to the blog world after my 2nd exam hehehe...
Well, this is because the next coming exams will happen next week, which is English Studies and Social Studies. May God continue to bless my course-mates during the examination. Adios!!! This is just a short post ;D

My planning after the exam =D (spoiler)

This post will be released after 15th November 2011...

Anyway gambateh to all my course mates especially those in PPIMSP BI 2610, since it is everybody final battle after three memorable semesters together. May God answered our prayer and together we go through this final examination. 9th of November is our starting and 15th of November is our final day for our foundation years. Once again, I wish my course mates, happy study and let's ready for the fight battle!!!! All the best to all my course-mates =D

Foundation B.Ed TESL Final Exam Timetable

All the best to my group, PPISMP BI 2610 =D

Foundation B.Ed TESL in IPGs (A guide for Foundation TESL in IPG)

My FOUNDATION B.Ed TESL in

This is some information about TESL in IPGs around Malaysia; I am studying TESL in IPG Kampus Tun Abdul Razak by the way... This is some information base on the experiences that I have gone through in my Foundation TESL course throughout this three semester. Each IPG may differ from one to another...

Semester One, I have to conclude that it was the easiest of all three semester in Foundation B.Ed TESL in IPG. Well, for newbie, the reason is that during your semester one, there will be NO EXAMINATION and we are differ from other courses that was provided in the IPG because our examination is tested base on the stuffs that we have learnt throughout the THREE SEMESTER. The best things about life experience during semester one was that you will go for camping for about four days (maybe differ from each IPG) and at the end of the semester, for semester one, you will have Exhibition for your Social Studies.The exhibition is focusing on two main topic: Culture & Communication.
Well, let's focus on the core subjects now before I continue talking about Foundation B.Ed TESL in IPGs.
There's will be only four core subjects in Foundation B.Ed TESL, there are:

1.Language Description-you will learn grammar
2.Language Development-as the title said it, to develop your language (Speaking, etc.)
3.Social Studies
4.English Studies- you will learn Literature (Short Stories, Poems, Play, Novel)

In semester one, I experienced writing critical essay for my 1st assignment; Well, the assignment for this will be differ from each IPGs...Well, in IPGs concept, there will always be somebody or someone who will become your Group Leader and followed by Subject leader...this is the hierarchy.

Tutor (your group lecturer)
|
Group Leader
|
Subject leader (for each subjects)
|
Normal students

Life in semester one, won't be hectic; What you need to do is finding new friends, knowing them; Well, this is pretty important for your life in semester two. Besides that, my hint is that, you should always seek for advices from your seniors, since we cannot deny that they have gone through as they have faced the examination before us. Some early hints will make you wake up as early as semester one, this is because semester one don't have examination and it will surely make you lazy after one semester. Besides that develop teamwork during semester one is pretty much important because you really need it in your 2nd semester.

Okay, enough about semester one; Let's continue about Semester Two. Let me go straight to the point, semester two will be a lot more busier than semester one, this is because, your lecturer know you already and this means more work. You will experiences reading William Shakespeare's Play the whole semester and at the end of the semester two, you will need to present a play on what you have learnt. Well, take notice that, this will also be your mark for your final examination as it is an assignment for English Studies. Preparing the drama, not an easy task as we will have less help from our lecturer; well, we are in a teacher trainee college, so indeed they are training us to become a teacher, which is a good thing. Besides from drama, you will have English Society in your semester two. In English Society, you will have to organize activities for English of course; While experiencing this, you will expose to paper work writing and how an English Club should work in a school. About English Society, it will be good if your cohort have less class, more classes or group means you might experience some conflict; This is because you really need some unity in this and ENGLISH SOCIETY ALSO BRING SOME IMPORTANT MARKS IN SEMESTER TWO. Plus, for my TESL IPG, at the end of the english society, we will visit some schools at our areas. For Social Studies, what I experienced is that, my assignment asked me to do action research/ Survey base on what I have learnt in Social Studies. However, some lecturer will give you critical essay like what my seniors experience in the past, during their semester two.

Furthermore, in your semester two; you will face your Mock Examination. (Mock=Fake) The exam usually test before Gawai holidays (for Sarawak IPGs) ; Well, for first timer Mock Examination wasn't easy. Talking about examination, my lecturer have rank the subjects from the hardest to the easiest.

1.Language Description (well, about the command of language, Semester two stuff is quite challenging if compared to Semester one)
2.English Studies (you need to read all the literature, this subject you cannot afford to have a last minute study)
3.Social Studies (easy, if you have read well)
4.Language Development (Just like MUET and school exam)

Some of my coursemates have fail in Social Studies in Mock Examination before; I have admit that thou it is just a Mock Examination, it wasn't easy. For Semester, in your social studies, you will focus on Environment and Gender issues. You will learn about Glass ceiling, Kyoto Protocol, etc. Well, you will see a bigger world after studying this; You will know what is gender stereotyping. Quite fun actually, if you learn to see things at this stage. For your language Description, in your semester two, you will learn about the sentence patterns, Subject Verb Agreement and etc. Well, you have to search and even invent some clues to remember the rules etc, well that's what I experience.

Lastly, I will tell you about Semester three in Foundation B.Ed TESL in IPG. Once you reach semester three, your spirit for studying will definitely become low, this happen to all group of TESLian in my IPG Kampus Tun Abdul Razak. Furthermore, this is what I call ClimaX for Foundation B.Ed TESL. Like what happen in the other two semester, assignments will be given to you after the third week or the fourth week, depend on your lecturer. Well, for semester three, you spend more time inside your IPG rather than visiting outside or camping. This is because less activities for semester three. For English Studies, you will read novel for the whole semester. For my cohort in IPG, during this time, I learnt "The Mango Season" by Amulya Malladi. Like Play in Semester Two, each IPG is differ from one another for what we learn for English Studies. Besides that, for your semester three, you have to get ready to prepare the Final Examination (The only true final examination that you will face in your Foundation life). For my IPG, like what I posted in my last post, we did scrapbook about the novel that we have read. Since I able to cross check with my friends in IPG Kampus Batu Lintang, during their semester three, they did magazine instead of scrapbook; Well, the concept is still the same anyway. The only best thing about semester three is that for your social studies assignment, you will be asked to do video about Conflict or Globalization in Education. Most of time, we will tend to choose conflict because it is easy to do and make. To precise and make you alert, a 10min movie clip. For your language description, you will learn stuffs like for example, reported speech, lexical devices, Ellipsis and many more...

That's all for me; I have to prepared for my Final Examination now...good luck for your journey as well, if you are a new TESLian this year in your Campus and just want to know more about what will happen next in the coming semester; That's all from me, Adios!!!

-Sean Chen-


Hope this guide help ;D

if you like to ask questions, feel free to post the questions in the comments, I will try my best to answer it base on my personal experiences...