1. AED 105: Lesson Plan for Student-led Tutorial (Group Seminar Presentation)
Tutorial Group: TG10 Day/Time: Wednesday 1630-1830
Topic: Tutorial 4 – The professionals in Education: Who are the teachers?
Members: Carmen Chan, Cheung Man Wai, Ng Yu Juan, Joyce Yeo
Theme: Passion Vs Challenges – The NIE NOOSE (Entertainment News & Games reporting on teachers)
Class organization: in their own groups according to topic presentation
Lesson Objectives:
1. Relate self-awareness and reflection to personal and professional discipline of being a teacher.
2. Explore challenges faced by teachers and brainstorm possible ways to overcome them
3. Invoke the hidden positive and negative attributes beneath the professionalism of teaching.
Proposed Schedule:
Presenter/ Resources
Time Activity Rationale
Facilitator Needed
(MINS) Studio NIE ‘Noose’ telecast
Trigger - introduction Carmen Powerpoint
2-3 Introduction of group members, learning Allow student teachers have an Joyce
objectives and the agenda for this lesson. idea of what to expect in today’s
lesson.
Man Wai(Newscaster) reports on recent
2 negative reports of student teachers/ To illustrate the fact that teachers Man Wai Video showing
teachers. are very closely scrutinized by the media reports of
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2. media. That adds additional news on teachers
pressure to the professional
10 *Outdoor Interview challenge of teaching. Man Wai
After presenting the news reports Man Wai Yu Juan
appx. 2 will interview the following people: Carmen
per 1. Young working mother in CBD Joyce
interview (Carmen)
2. Ms Graceful at MOE headquarters
(Joyce)
3. Dr Ho Cin at NIE (Yu Juan)
To clarify on the selection and
1. Young working mother is appalled by the rigorous training process for
news and very worried about her child teachers.
who is currently in school. She wonders
how teachers are selected and trained. Powerpoint (to
Response: show all the main
2. Ms Graceful explains the selection Linking the interview activity in points from
process of teachers and that some of this lesson to readings in the text readings with
them can gain valuable experience and the first learning objective. regards to
through relief or contract teaching before teachers’
being recommended for teacher training at selection/training
NIE. She emphasizes on the all rounded & V3SK)
support given which helps in the
development of professional values and
attitudes for trainees and beginning
teachers.
3. Dr Ho Cin provides information on the
evolution of NIE’s ASK, VSK and V3SK
framework, emphasizing a world class,
holistic education for NIE trainees.
She elaborates on NIE’s continuous effort
in incorporating new values, skills and
knowledge in teacher’s education over the
years to ensure the pedagogy is current
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3. and relevant. From the old ASK model
(Attitudes, Skills and Knowledge) to the
VSK (Value, Skills and Knowledge) Man Wai
framework, moving on to 6
recommendations to further incorporate
new Values, Skills and Knowledge to the
21st century teachers’ education.
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Man Wai summarizes the interview through
reporting. She reminds the class the
importance of upholding the standards of the
teaching profession. It could be difficult to
control anger, draw a distinctive line between
personal life and private interest or lifestyle
and relationships with students. Hence, It is
important to practice self-awareness and
reflection as part of their personal and Carmen-
7 professional discipline. This activity enables our fellow presenter
classmates to use real-life
situations faced by beginning Facilitators
Development teachers to work out possible Man Wai
Outdoor Interview “LIVE”-NIE Campus – solutions. Yu Juan Powerpoint slides
Roleplay They might realize that Joyce
sometimes there are no perfect Camera
Carmen reports from NIE Campus. solutions.
Student teachers are tasked to re-enact a The activity helps to prepare Slips of paper with
given scenario. them mentally to face such issues the scenarios for
Student teachers will be grouped in their own when they are posted out to each group.
seminar groups, they will be to. schools.
Each group will have 7 minutes to consider
the challenges and suggest possible solutions
to the problems.
(Commercial break when student teachers
discuss about the role-play activity)
• Case 1:
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4. You are a new teacher who had just finished
your degree in education. However, you soon
20 to notice that you are struggling with the
5 per school's system and culture. Your HOD wants
group you to be a form teacher of a graduating
secondary 4 class where at the same time,
your school principal wants you to take over 2
CCA. You find that you are not able to keep
up to the standard or expectation that your
HOD or Principal wanted. What would you
do?
Case 2:
A teacher often led a busy lifestyle and finding
it difficult to balance work and family. On a
particular day, you had finished clearing all
your work and decide to leave early for your
child’s 1-year-old birthday party. Suddenly,
your supervisor passes you a stack of un-
marked paper and asks you to help complete
it by tomorrow. As a beginning teacher, what
will you do in this situation?
Case 3:
As a new teacher, you were shocked to
realized that the school which you are posted
to decide to let you teach subject which you
are not specialized in. You are specialized in
Chinese languages but your school principal
wanted you to teach primary 6 mathematic
instead. How will you deal with this situation?
• Case 4:
A teacher often has to play many role in
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5. this teaching profession. During the “meet
the parent session”, you are shocked to
find out that the parents started blaming
on you for their child poor academic and
CCA performance. As a beginning
teacher, what would you do if you have to
handle difficult parents and student?
3 Facilitators and presenter assist each group
in their planning.
Class acts out the scenarios and suggest
possible solutions.
Carmen summarizes the activity by reporting
that there are many ways to deal with difficult
situations and teachers puts in their best
effort to overcome all sorts of difficulties.
Indeed this group of positive and passionate
teachers of the future would find it easy to
5 overcome the difficulties. However, if you Presenter -
were really in the situation for a long period of Joyce
time, what will happen? Moving on to a fun and engaging Team Anagram cut outs
Question is, will the passion last them game with the purpose to members as for 4 groups
throughout the next 10 years? symbolize the hidden attributes, facilitators to
both positive and negative, guide the Construction
beneath the professionalism of groups in the paper to record
Studio ”NIE Prof” – Anagram Game teaching. class the words and
Presenter will explain rules and instructions phrases formed
for the class to play this game in their Some of the words found may
respective groups. invoke conflicting thoughts on the
passion towards teaching.game Online stopwatch
Purpose - They will arrange alphabets found
in head phrase “Professionalism’ to form with the purpose to symbolize the
words and phrases used in teaching and hidden attributes, both positive Visualiser
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6. education arena. and negative, beneath the
Expectation: professionalism of teaching.
1) Minimum word length for one of the word List of words,
or phrase should be 6 letters Some of the words found may
which found from
5 2) Each alphabet should be used only one ie invoke conflicting thoughts on the
there should be a maximum of 15 letters in passion towards teaching. head phrase
5 the word or phrase. ‘professionalism’
3) The word ‘professional’ is disallowed to using online
encourage efforts to look beyond the obvious. anagram solver.
5 4) Groups are to record on the construction
paper provided and share findings at the end Powerpoint slides
of the session.
5) Groups have 5mins to work on this task.
Groups work on this task.
Using the visualizer, groups present their
words/phrases found with the class.
Presenter summarizes results of activity by
highlighting good examples of words/phrases
given by the groups and also those missed
out.
• Emphasize that the word ‘passion’ can
be found in ‘professionalism’, so is the
phrase ‘passion or lies’.
• Provide 30seconds for class to self
reflect if passion will last.
• Highlights that passion may not be
long lasting, instead it is power of
conviction that enable one to last
through an extended period of time,
• Reiterates links of game to third
learning outcome and the conflicts
between a role model and a ‘holistic’
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7. teacher as mentioned in the text book
readings.
Closure
Studio -”NIE Live” – Video clip The video clip provides a good
“Passion VS Conviction’ opportunity for new student Yu Juan Video clip of a
5 teacher to reflect upon and teacher from YSS
Video clip of interview with a teacher will be understand on how is it like to be
shown in class. in the teaching profession.
The clip reflects the possible problems and It also presents the possible
challenges that the school teacher problems that new student
encountered and how she eventually teachers might encounter in the
overcame those hurdles in the teaching future and serves as a
arena. consolidation of the meaning of
professionalism.
The videos also share with us how she
continues to nurture the passion to teach The tips that the teacher shared
despite all the ups and downs of her teaching in the videos will be helpful in
career. guiding student teachers and
better prepared them in the
future.
Presenter mentions that there are another 2
videos, which they can view on the Facebook
page.
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Conclusion Carmen
Studio - NIE NOOSE Joyce
Re-emphasize objectives: Passion VS Reiterates the conviction for
Conviction teaching and the importance of
- Important that teachers are intrinsically having a support group for TG10.
motivated
- Passion dies off eventually, but how
are we going to persevere on?
- NIE NOOSE has created a Facebook
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8. group (Teachers Support Group Tr10)
for all beginning teachers in order for
teachers to encourage and learn from
each other.
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