Week 4 - Reflection

Hi,

I was pretty much overwhelmed with my extensive daily routine in this week, which has limited me to post comments in the classroom's discussion board. However, I have read great and creative ideas from my classmates in this week's discussions. The lesson plan was the most interesting of all. I have to admit that creating lesson plan was the most painstaking process for me in preparing the class because I never hold a class in a full-term before. Serving as assistant lecturer in my University, I have to be more opened to analyzing the lesson plans of the real lecturer of the course. Now, having great intention to share new ideas of utilizing internet resources with my students, I have gathered lots of fruitful concept of improvements for my teaching sessions with the preexisted lesson plan or maybe with my own lesson plan.

The benefit of having variety of internet resources to support a specific skill of language-learning lesson is that the students are not bewildered with the mere instructions given by the teacher or textbooks. Students are free to gather more information on the related lesson to enrich their comprehension. Therefore, besides having sufficient information to their inquiries from exploring the internet, the students tend to gain more insights and open their channels to discoveries of other related potential information, which later will develop schemata for future learnings. I always motivate students to experience learning autonomously. My future lesson plan will always have suggestion of additional resources accessible on the internet that the students need to explore by themselves. I am convinced that once the students have absorbed the chemistry of autonomous learning by exploring internet, they will gradually intensify their inquiries on the subject that will enhance their skills in language learning.

Best regards,
Rahmat