My Journey as an Educator

   Assalamualaikum readers! After we're done with all the resumes and cover letters, we proceed to the second assessment, which is mock interviews. This assessment was created to prepare students for the real job interviews that they would soon go through during their job-seeking process after graduating from IKM. This topic was allocated two weeks, where the first week was for preparation, while the second week was for carrying out the assessment.  The way the mock interview was carried is as follows; teachers exchange classes, meaning that we are not interviewing our own students but instead become panels for other classes. Then, marks are given by the panels, before it is reviewed by the class teacher to ensure fairness for all students.  For your information, I was assigned to become the panel of my ex-students, who I taught last semester. What amused me was that these students actually requested that I DID NOT become their interviewer because they said that "Madam Nadia a

 Assalamualaikum all.. This post will be a summary of 2-week's worth of class since all we have been doing during this time was preparing for the role play assessment, and then acting it out in front of the class.  For this assessment, students are asked to be in pairs and each pair is given a scenario that they have to play out. The main objective of this assessment is to see students applying basic communication skills while conversing, such as greeting one another, saying sorry/ thank you, and also asking WH questions. Sadly, this assessment had to be repeated, because students failed to do their roleplay properly the first time around. For roleplays, students are supposed to be memorizing the script and then act it out. To make the task easier for students, I allowed them to submit a video of their actions, rather than make them roleplay live during class. By doing this, I thought that students will be able to edit their video better, and could read the scripts off camera, befo

Assalamualaikum again everyone! This week, we're moving on to the most common assessment for language classes; Presentations!   So, based on my observation for the past 2 weeks, here are my SWOT result analysis for how my classes are carried out; STRENGTH: Compared to KPM which is very packed with content, where each week consists of different topics and there is a strict timeline for assessment submissions, IKM is much more relaxed in the sense that it allows leeway for students by allocating extra time for students to learn a certain topic. To make you understand better, during my teaching years in KPM, there were 10 topics that we had to finish within the duration of 12 weeks. Meanwhile, in IKM, there are only 3 topics to teach, and we are expected to finish them within 22 weeks. The reason behind this is that teaching English in IKM means that we have to start from the basics. If we're teaching about ways to present, we have to start with exploring the skills of speaking be

 Assalamualaikum everyone!   For the past 2 weeks, we went through the first assessment, which is the preparation of legal documents for interviews; a cover letter, and a resume. There's a reason why it took me 2 weeks to cover this topic, you'll see why later. For the Diploma students, their task is a tad bit harder because they have to prepare a resume video in addition to the written (typed) cover letter and resume. For this task, students have to promote themselves to future employees by highlighting their skills and specialties in an introduction video called video resume. It is basically a resume, but in video form, which means that students have to know what parts of their resume they would like to highlight and present to wow headhunters. Here is a summary  of the SWOT analysis I had done based on the lessons these past 2 weeks: STRENGTH: Due to the low level of English comprehension of the Certification students, the modules were prepared with samples and templates for