My Journey as an Educator

  Assalamualaikum everyone! This week, our college is officially welcoming new semester 1 students to IKM KL, and this week will be my first time meeting them. According to my schedule, half of my teaching time will be focused on semester 1 students, while the rest of my schedule is divided equally for the senior classes. Since semester 1 students are still new, for the whole week, they seemed to be quite eager when they entered the classroom. Everyone arrived on time and was participative during the ice-breaking session. During this part of the lesson, I actually implemented the first unit of the course into the ice-breaking session with the first part of the course content, which was actually focused on the same thing: Self-introduction.  STRENGTH:  Since I have been teaching technical students for the past few weeks, it gave me a bit of an idea of how to conduct the junior classes. I was also able to anticipate a variety of behaviors coming from each course based on th...

 Assalamualaikum everyone! Last week has been the introduction week, where I first get to know students from each course and share with them what topics will be covered throughout the semester. This week, the actual lessons begin and the results of the SWOT analysis I had done based on the classes this week are as follows: STRENGTH: The topics that I will be teaching for the courses in IKM are quite similar to what I taught during my years in KPM even though the courses here are different. Thus, having the experience teaching these topics is definitely helpful since I have already determined the suitable activities that could be carried out during the lesson, and all I have to do now is to try and adapt the activities to my current students' level of competency and comprehension. WEAKNESS: I am afraid that my teaching style is not suiting the students' tastes. Students seem to be less enthusiastic as soon as they are asked to open their course modules. The drop in energy can C...

 Assalamualaikum and good morning everyone!       This week, the new semester has finally started, and on Monday, I was actually nervous and excited at the same time because I finally have my own students (instead of being a substitute teacher for random classes) and can start my official journey of teaching in IKM KL. So, here's a recap on what happened this week according to my SWOT analysis: STRENGTH: I have previous teaching experience, where I taught students both in face-to-face and online classes, thus giving me a sense of what makes students more interested in learning, such as through the usage of videos and mobile apps during class. Having a 2-year teaching experience has enabled me to try and error teaching methods and learning activities, making me now much more prepared than when I first started teaching. WEAKNESS: Being someone who has previously taught in KPM, a college for diploma students, I believe that my main weakness is that I have this pre-...

Assalamualaikum all!            Welcome back to my blog! I'm excited to share with you my experiences after two weeks of working at Institut Kemahiran MARA Kuala Lumpur (IKMKL). Here we go!      As per mentioned in my previous post,  I was relocated to IKM just about the time students were about to take their finals before going back home for their semester break.  However, I will not officially start teaching until the new students arrive. Hence, m y first task in IKM KL is to prepare the scheme of work (SOW) and contents for the subjects that I will be teaching for the new semester since the current semester was already ending. While going through this process, I did the SWOT analysis and this is what I have learned so far; STRENGTH: I am guided by an experienced mentor, Ms. Nia, who has been teaching for almost 20 years. She shared with me a lot of tips and tricks of being a teacher in IKM, and she helped me a lot in unders...