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  WEEK 10: MUSIC AS TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES             This week’s class stood out as the most captivating of the semester for me! Dr. Lina brought in Mr. Tamim as a guest speaker during Monday’s lecture to delve into the use of background music in enhancing student learning. What fascinated me was his demonstration with an electric guitar, showcasing various tempo music. He engaged us in the Puzzle Speedrun Experiment, illustrating how background music aids task completion. The winning group in this activity shared their insights with elective students who missed Monday’s class for a zoo visit. During the tutorial, Dr. Lina recapped prior knowledge, employing strategies like lyric fill-in games from lyricstraining.com and encouraging storytelling and jokes from students. However, I’ll primarily focus on Monday’s lesson which is music as teaching and learning strategies in this blog. Our class began with a Mentime...

  WEEK 9: SELF-REFLECTION REPORT- THE TEACHING DEMO It'd been an exhilarating yet nerve-wracking ninth week! Our anticipation was high as we geared up for our first in-person presentation this semester. However, the journey to this point had been far from smooth. Initially, we aimed for an easy-to-teach topic and settled on the water cycle, but Dr. Lina's feedback about the need for a tertiary-level topic led us to reconsider. Despite our efforts to elevate the complexity of the water cycle, we couldn't quite reach the required level. After grappling with topic selection, we finally pivoted to a more significant societal issue—environmental pollution. Focusing on water and air pollution, we utilized recent events like the nuclear effluent discharge in Japan to highlight water pollution and the Indonesian haze to exemplify air pollution. After settling on our topic, we outlined our teaching demo's content and divided the parts. Subsequently, in Dr. Lina's lesson, we ...

WEEK 8: EFFECTIVE LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND QUESTIONING                 This week, due to Dr. Lina's conference, we had a shorter class session of only two hours. However, what we covered is invaluable for our assignments: learning how to craft effective lesson objectives and utilize impactful questions to fulfill those objectives in our teaching. Prior to even discussing this week's subject, Dr. Lina recapped assignment details and emphasized their crucial aspects. Recapping was highlighted as particularly beneficial for students who missed previous sessions, a practice that aids their understanding, as noted by Nguyen and Chu (2022). It is because students sometimes arrive unaware of assignments that pose challenges for both their learning and the teachers. Dr. Lina introduced us to producing higher-order learning objectives, emphasizing their pivotal role in lesson planning. In creating our lesson plans, it is required to have three to fou...