1st Lesson of TP 2009

I was given the finalized timetable today as it kept changing repeatedly. I started to teach this morning.

I'm given 3 periods of ICT lessons for Mondays.

Year 4A - 7.30am to 8.00am
Year 3A - 8.30am to 9.00am
Year 4B - 9.30am to 10.00am

I decided to teach simple lessons since today was the first day of my teaching. For the Year 4 pupils, I asked them to create Chinese New Year greeting cards. Year 4B was ahead of Year 4A.

For Year 3A, I asked them to draw and color their Computers, tables, and chairs. Surprisingly, Year3A found this very difficult as they could not even work with the Mouse properly. I finally was informed that Year3A is the least achieving pupils as the school has begun the streaming of pupils into different classes in accordance to their capabilities.

Overall, the lessons were alright but a little bit slow. Apparently, majority of the pupils here have forgotten how to work with the computers after the long break as they do not own computers at home so there were no follow up at all. The other frustrating thing was, there are only 8 PCs working in the computer lab. So the pupils had to share even up to 5 pupils per PC. It severely affected their learning and my teaching as well.

I've informed the headmaster about the problem and I was told to call the ICT department in MOE Berakas for this matter.