PBL

Taken from Implementing Project-Based learning in Pre-service teacher education by Holst, J.K., 2003

• PBL is relevant for ELT = a bridge between 'classroom' and 'real life' English (Fried-Booth, 1997) since it requires authentic, communicative use of the language.
  
• How teachers teach is largely determined by the knowledge, attitudes, values, theories and assumptions they already hold about teaching (Breen, 1991; Woods, 1996) and these are likely to be based on their own experience as classroom learners (Lortie, 1975; Richards, 2001)

Fried-Booth, D. L. (1997). Project work (8th Ed) Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Richards, J. Gallo, P., & Renandya, W. (2001). Exploring teachers' beliefs and the processes of change. PAC, 1(1), 41-64.

Lortie, D. (1975). Schoolteacher: a Sociological Study. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Breen, M.P. (1991). Understanding the language teacher in R. Philipson, E Kellerman et al (Eds), Foreign / Second language Pedagogy Research (pp 213-233) Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
___________________________________________________________________

Zhang, Y. (1999). Project-based collaborative learning. Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (pp. 1960-63). San Antonio, TX: International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education.

___________________________________________________________________

A session with Dr Tee

I walked into Dr Tee's office around 11.18a.m today. I beamed in delight upon seeing Dr Tee for I know I'll be engaging in an intellectual discourse with him in a while.

After listening to my explanation and scanning my proposal, he said that my proposal is feasible to be done at PhD level. He suggested that I read more on TPACK since that would be my main concern since the batch of students I'm teaching at the moment has a huge gap in pedagogical and content knowledge since they have different content background.

Since I am going to pursue my PhD under TESL, Dr Tee said I would need to have two co supervisors. He agreed to be one of them and when I asked him to recommend a TESL supervisor, he told me that he has worked with Prof Moses before. I took a research class with Prof Moses before and I recognise his expertise. Well, I would be getting the best two PhD holders among the best to supervise me in doing my research.


Dr Tee suggests that I should be seeing him on regular basis to discuss on my research. I'll be seeing him once a month then. So, I would better keep up with my readings!

On the other hand, deep in my heart, I feel scared. I did not question my own capability in completing the journey I would take to have accomplish my mission, but I'm afraid to think of the challenges I would face along the way. Would I be suffering from depression? Would I falter? And the list could go on....

I know that I have to be strong and steadfast. Stop procrastinating and giving lots of excuses. I need to buckle up and be prepared for a rough journey....

Motivation booster!

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:06:28 -0800
From: mytee22@yahoo.com
Subject: Your presentation
To: nurulhana2000@hotmail.com

Hello Hana,

Good to hear your presentation yesterday. Job well done!

I'd like to hear about your future plans for your research. Let me know if you wanna chat.

Tee
__________________________________________________________
Date: Thur, 25 Nov 2010 23:06:28 -0800
From: mytee22@yahoo.com
Subject: Your presentation
To: nurulhana2000@hotmail.com

No need to feel inferior -- you are the sifu in your research context :-). Let me know if you need recommendations for your readings.

Tee

TESL Journal

The Internet TESL Journal
- Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links

A course in language teaching: Theory and Practice

Instrumentation workshop by Dr Nagalingam

24 March 2010
Dewan Abd Rahim Kajai

TEDS-M 2008


Skop kajian
Meninjau antara lain, sejauh mana Mathematical Content Knowledge (MCK) dan Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK)

Sampel Kajian
567 org (550 guru pelatih dari pada beberapa IPG dan 17 guru pelatih dari UPSI

Instrument kajian

• General background
• opportunity to learn
• mathematics knowledge for teaching
• beliefs about mathematics and teaching

Data
Data dihantar ke Hamburg, Germany

Dapatan awal

• Sampel KPLI IPG mencapai prestasi yg baik dlm domain MCK dan PCK

• Terdapat 4 IPG yg telah melepasi min antarabangsa untuk MCK dan 12 IPG utk PCK.

Area of research for PhD????? To soon??

I went to see Prof RM on Monday 28/12/2009.. needed to have her signature for my annual performance report. I voiced out my intention to pursue PhD under her supervision... "Well, depends" she said smilingly. Then she asked me what I taught for KDC. I mentioned I taught ICT in BM focusing on PBL. Prof said PBL could be my angle of research for my further study.