Week 14: Learning Log 10/9/13

Lesson plan: On Thursday September 10, 2013

Good teaching comes from good lesson plan. Lesson plan should be included direct terminal objective and enabling objectives, procedure, and evaluation. Some teachers think that lesson plan is not important, but they only teach students to gain knowledge. In fact, lesson plan is same as outline of writing. If lesson plan is not perfect, your writing will be not good. If your lesson plan is so complicated, your writing may be difficult to read. According to some sentences, teachers should realize about lesson plan lead to teaching students ready into 21^ST century. In addition, Thailand will be the unity in the AEC (Asean Economic Community), so people should speak and use English as well as the native speakers. This function is related to how to teach. In class on Thursday September, 2013, I gain knowledge what terminal and enabling objectives are, how to teach, and how to perform self for teaching.

The objectives are important thing for planning good lesson. First of all, teachers should know what they would like students to know and they can think of a goal. In teaching, teachers must know about a curriculum and they know how different between terminal objective and enabling objective. After that, teachers should plan learning process. Teachers should prepare activities for each steps of learning process. 1) Warm-up, teachers may use song, video, authentic materials, or using question. 2) Presentation, teachers should teach content, vocabulary, and pronunciation. 3) Practice, teachers may use game, conversation, exercise and etc. 4) Production, teachers allow students to produce tasks reflecting what they have learned in class. 5) Wrap-up, teachers may ask or review about content. Learning process should motivate students to pay attention during class activities. In addition, teachers should use rubric, questionnaires, interviews, or others in evaluating and checking understanding of students.

Conclusion, there are five steps in lesson plan. Before teaching, teachers should know what terminal and enabling objectives are. Terminal objective is what teacher expects that students can perform at the end of class or unit. Enabling objective is to specify a detailed sequence of student activities. As getting objectives, we should understand five steps in learning process. 1) Warm-up is to perform before presentation and practice. 2) Presentation is to act for introducing new content. 3) Practice is doing activities over and over. 4) Production is to act for creating output reflects what students have learned in class. 5) Wrap-up is to complete or finish something such as what students have been writing. Good lesson plan comes from objectives related to what teachers would like to teach students. In my opinion, I agree with planning lesson because it can make teaching effective as the first step. Moreover, lesson plan should be related to a curriculum. Do you agree with me? Why?

Week 14: Learning contract

Learning Contract

Days of weeks	Time	Skills/ Tasks
Sunday	8:00	Learning Contract
Monday	-	-
Tuesday	16:20	Learning Log
Wednesday	-	-
Thursday	18:00	Reading skill
Friday	20:00	Listening skill
Saturday	15:30	Writing skill

Week 13: Listening skill-

Waltzing Pump up Heart Patient

 Health Problems are big problem that many people had faced. It comes from less exercise or lack of exercising. They usually keep bad lifestyles such skipping eating breakfast, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarette or less sleeping. In addition, some people live in bad environment such as in city where crowded people lived in.  At present, people interest and take care of their health than in the past. Most people are dead from many diseases such as heart attack, diabetes, cancer, etc. Especially, heart disease is effect for health. People should change their thought from less sleep to enough sleep or sleep well every night, from skip breakfast to eat breakfast every morning, and change bad lifestyle to good. In this section, I would like to talk about heart disease lead to heart attack.

Heart attack is a caused of people deaths every year. Dancing is good exercise for improving heart problem. Heart failure is not the same as heart attack. It means heart is weakened cannot pump blood as usual. There is development about this condition all the time.  According to the United States, people who are heart failure usually get tired easily and short of breathe so they hardly do activities in daily routine. A doctor needs patients to exercise by dancing aerobics three times per week. Aerobics can help the heart work harder and pump blood and a lung can increase oxygen. Many patients don’t interest in traditional exercise so the researchers choose Walt dancing. Doctor Romualdo tests with 89 men and 21 women who are with moderate heart failure. They are divided into three groups. The first group; 44 people dance three times a week. The second group; 44 people dance Walt both slow and fast Walt dance. The third group; 22 people don’t do exercise. According to research, two groups that exercise and dance can improve oxygen so they get tired less easily than a group who does not exercise.  An exercise is good strategy for improving oxygen in lung.

 Health is important for running new day same as a car which need patrol. Heart disease is a main cause of many people deaths every year. Therefore, people have to interest health problem. They everyday should exercise at least 30-60 minutes per day; three times a week or exercise. They can exercise by walking slowly, jogging, dancing, breathing in and out deeply, moving parts of body, growing trees or doing house works. In addition, people should change lifestyle. They should not skip eating breakfast and other meals. They should sleep early and get up early for breathing good air. They also should not be stressful for everything but they should relax after getting tired. When people take care of their health and body, they will get healthy. Therefore, they should see a doctor at least once a year. In my opinion, I think we should exercise every day, eat beneficial food and live in place with good air. Do you agree with this article? Why? When you have health problem, how do you take care of health?

Vocabulary	Pronunciation	Meaning
Attack (n)	/əˈtæk/	ล้มเหลว an act of using violence to try to hurt or kill somebody a series of racist attacks Ex: A child is recovering in hospital after a serious attack by a stray dog.
Diabetes (n)	/ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/	โรคเบาหวาน a medical condition which makes the patient produce a lot of urine and feel very thirsty. Ex: There are several types of diabetes.
Cancer (n)	/ˈkænsə(r)/	โรคมะเร็ง a serious disease in which growths of cells, also called cancers, form in the body and kill normal body cells. The disease often causes death Ex: Smokers face an increased risk of developing lung cancer.
Pump (v)	/pʌmp/	สูบฉีด a machine that is used to force liquid, gas or air into or out of something Ex: She washed her face at the pump in front of the inn.

Week 13: Learning Log

Learning Log

 Good teaching should be referred to curriculum. Teachers should know students’ learning lifestyles as first. They should know students’ background knowledge. At this present, most of teachers usually teach what they need, but they do not teach students by referring to curriculum. Likewise, students often do not pass several tests, including O-net, NT, Gat-Pat, etc. In addition, English is a subject that students do not be interesting on it, so they cannot understand and apply it in their real life situations. Teaching English should be included teaching macro skills; listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. The first skill that teachers should teach as first is listening skill, because general human naturally have learned listening. However, most Thai teachers have focused on teaching only vocabularies and teaching grammatical structures. In this section, I would like to reflect what I have learned all the time in class. I gains knowledge about how to do lesson plan, how to teach using teaching strategies, and how to do homework in pair.

Today is on Tuesday 3 September, 2013. There are four students who present teaching. The first person teaches about asking for direction by using preposition; left, right, cross road, etc. Content is about tourism place at Nakhon Si Thammarat. Procedure is perfect but she focuses on teaching grammar more than how to use language. The second person teaches about food of Trang City. She needs to teach students speaking but she focuses on writing or reading skill. Therefore, she should give students opportunity for having participation in activities. The third person teaches about tourism places. She focuses on speaking skill, too. Picture cards used, are not included words or phrases describing. In addition, she also evaluates what she taught not be available on her objectives. The last one teaches about asking for direction, too using structures easy to use. She focuses on speaking skill. She gives students an exercise about completing conversation. In this exercise, students can practise how to speak same as using in real situation.

Conclusion, there are important three factors for good teaching such as teacher, curriculum, and evaluation. After four students finished teaching, a teacher expresses opinions or some ideas on them. Everyone gets new ideas for preparing good regional lesson plan; it is next lesson plan. First of all, teachers have to know individual students or their learning styles and background knowledge. Next, teachers should find new information or content supporting lesson plan. Then, teachers learn on curriculum and do lesson plan. After that, teachers choose activities that can motivate students’ attention, materials-book or non-book or design them by self. For evaluation, teachers should use rubric available what they teach. Before finished class, a teacher gives us two papers work in pair. In my opinion, I think I get new experiences introducing by a teacher, including how to set objectives; terminal objective and enabling objectives, how to teach, how to entertain students, and how to evaluate. I will prepare lesson plan, activities, how to teach as well as recommendation.

Week 13: Learning Contract

Learning Contract

Days of week	Time	Skills/ Tasks
Sunday	09:00	Learning Contract
Monday	17:00	Reading Skill
Tuesday	-	-
Wednesday	16:00	Reading Skill
Thursday	17:00	Listening Skill
Friday	-	-
Saturday	-	-

Week 12: Listening skill-Foreign Students Series: Accreditation Explained

Foreign Students Series: Accreditation Explained

 Education is important for finding a job in future. When we have higher ability than other, we can get opportunity for selecting good job available with us or job that we like. On the other hand, we hardly get good job if we don’t study in high level or study in needed major at good and famous college or university. Every countries, region, local and places need population with several abilities, so each countries has efforts to prepare students in school as first. Students often consider American college or university. Especially Education in America, employers and school are more usually acceptable education in American that comes from an accredited program. Accreditation is used for controlling educational quality. In this section, I would like to tell you about educational quality control (accreditation) explained in the United States.

According to the Unites States, there are eight accrediting agency for higher education. First of all, colleges or universities asked for quality control or accreditation. Then, school measures its performance. After that, agency of quality control sends a team of specialists to consider whether school meets standards or not. There is observation school every two years. Next, quality control must be recognized by the governor or the council for higher education. After that, almost of all agencies are recognized by CHEA and Department of Education. Students must attend a school. Next, Foreign students must consider why they should care much about all of this. After all, foreign students do not receive objectives from government. However, every school must be asked for controlling educational quality lead to development in better way.

 Conclusion, accreditation or quality control is important for improving quality of school. Accreditation tells employers that studies should be quality standards. America Education is focused on it for preparing students with higher abilities. In addition, quality control can use for one school and move to another. There are 7,000 schools and more than 19,000 programs were controlled quality by American organization last year. You can find all accredited schools and programs on website “chea.org.” It provides advices about education and accreditation.  In my opinion, I agree with this article because it has good guideline for improving education both to avoid worthless educational programs and how to control education quality by agencies. May I ask readers how you give opinion about this article? Why? How Thai education should be developed in the same way as foreign colleges? Give some comments….

Reference:

Nancy Steinbach.  Foreign Students Series: Accreditation
           Explained.  Accessed from:   (on 14 th August, 2013).

Vocabulary	Pronunciation	Meaning
Accreditation (n)	/əˌkredɪˈteɪʃn/	Quality control การควบคุมคุณภาพ Ex: The Accreditation of Prior Learning scheme allows work experience to be added towards qualifications.
Agency (n)	/ˈeɪdʒənsi/	a business or an organization that provides a particular service especially on behalf of other businesses or organizations ตัวแทน Ex: You can book at your local travel agency.
Nonprofit (adj.)	/nɒn ˈprɒfɪt/	without the aim of making a profit ไม่มีประโยชน์ Ex: The centre is run on a non-profit basis.
Examine (v)	/ɪɡˈzæmɪn/	พิจารณา เรียนรู้ to consider or study an idea, a subject, etc. very carefully Ex: These ideas will be examined in more detail in Chapter 10.
Federal (adj.)	/ˈfedərəl/	มีระบบการบริหารของรัฐบาล having a system of government in which the individual states of a country have control over their own affairs, but are controlled by a central government for national decisions, etc Ex: