THE REUSABLE TEACHING AIDS FOR LINUS PROGRAMME

THE REUSABLE TEACHING AIDS FOR LINUS

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INTRODUCTION

Innovation is defined as the process of making changes to something

established by introducing something new. It applies to radical or
incremental changes to products, processes or services. Over the years
there have been many changes in the way education is designed and
delivered in parts of the world. Today, technology is a significant driver
behind change, and sometimes plays an important role in innovations in
educational design and delivery. There are immense possibilities for greater
and wider-spread change with the use of present-day technological
advancements, as well as with the implementation of innovative educational
programs. The challenge is to ensure that innovation plays a constructive
role in improving educational opportunities for billions of people who remain
under-served in a rapidly developing world.

Linus is part of the National Education Blueprint and is to ensure Malaysian

children acquire basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills after three years
of primary school education. Linus 2.0 is part of the National Education
Blueprint which was meant to allow students to overcome English literacy
issues. Students in year 1 to year 3 will be screened twice a year to
determine if they are progressing in English literacy at the expected pace. It
is an intervention programme aimed to provide students with access to
equality education. The programme is focused on Year 1, 2 & 3 in primary
schools. At the early stage of schooling, students will undergo screening
tests to identify their strength and weaknesses in literacy and numeracy
skills. Weaker students will then be given extra attention and care, so that
they will be able to keep up in mainstream classes. The reusable teaching
aids are the creating of teaching materials for Linus pupils. These teaching
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aids are very simple, easy to use, attractive, allowing pupils participation
and reusable for other topic. Before teaching we must plan what we want to
do make our teaching goals or teaching objective will meet. There is a need
for us to determine and plan what we must to do in in our class. The
preparation is really important before we enter class because lack of
preparation will make we lost our confident we teach pupils. We know in a
class, we are facing many students that from different family background
and different level of ability and achievement. That why we need to do
preparation especially in choosing the right teaching aids to use.. The
different topic need we to use different teaching. In choosing teaching aids
we must make sure it is suitable with our content of knowledge. We also
need to consider about the attractiveness of teaching use with our level of
pupils in class. For teaching pupils in primary school we must make sure the
teaching is colorful, big and really interesting because pupils in primary
school more concentrate with the teaching aids that really attractive and it
will make them concentrate with the lesson

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RATIONALE OF THE PROJECT.

I choose this particular project for my pupils because I want my pupils can
use the reusable teaching aids for any certain topic. At the same time it can
expose them to the High Order Thinking Skills ( HOT ). This related with the
needed from Education Minister in Malaysia that needs the pupils to learnt
and expose to the HOT skills. At the same time it can be implement for the IThink program. This program relates to HOT skills and recommended the
teaching and learning in classroom. Therefore pupils can explore and use
their thinking skills as the component in learning. This project is important
for me because I can reuse it for other topic as life of teachers we are having
problems in managing time to create meaningful activities and cerating
suitable teaching aids, I implement these so in the future I can use it for
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other topic. The program focused on adopting Visual-spatial aids to teach

new vocabulary related to any topic. It

focused on understanding and

learning rather than just mugging up where conceptual understanding and

clarity did not take place. The different techniques used for teaching
incorporated

modern

concepts

of

working

in

team,

two-way

communication, creativity and thinking. This ensured that the above

objectives were achieved. The techniques involved drilling, Illustrative
charts, drawing & craft, playing games, which trigger imagination and
creativity. This helped in developing interest and liking among the Linus
students for attending school and learning in a cheerful way and ensured
that it was not a boring and painful process.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT.

Learning is more meaningful and real when it is linked to concrete real life
objects and situations. This often helps a child transcend her learning gaps
and grasp abstract logics and concepts. Given that principally language
highly abstract in nature, and further given its criticality in overall learning,
teaching

aids

and

materials

are

useful

way

to

teach.

I developed various kinds of learning materials which proved to be much

useful for the students in different stages. By using the reuse students file, I
recycle it to be the main teaching aids for the Linus students. It is easy to
find either you can get it from old students file or we can buy it with low cost.
These teaching aids really efficient and affordable because it was simple and
easy to do. To create it I just need old students file, magnetic strips, laminate
picture cards and laminate word card made from the old students library
card. According to my perspective during the implementation of the teaching
aids it helped in building the capacity of teachers for using various methods
and tools for overall development of the students. This method of teaching
creates a clear understanding on a particular topic and helps in creating long
lasting memory. The key focus of the teaching method is to build up thinking
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that make the most of these aspects building on our creative thinking and
cross linking between ideas that exist in the mind. Students are more focus
with

the

activities,

enjoy

and

able

to

create

meaningful

learning

environment. They are able to do the activities whether in groups, pairs or

even individually. To be able to manage the learning and teaching
process completely and properly, it is essential that materials should be used
in a convenient way to each stage of learning. The materials should be
prepared, used and evaluated in order to make the language lessons more
effective. Teachers should take into consideration students different learning
styles, expectations and needs, levels of motivation while designing
materials for the lesson. For me, the reusable teaching aids could cater the
Linus students learning style. Students participate more actively now. The
materials were also used by the students helped in learning while playing.
The various models created in the classes helped the students to relate with
their

subjects.

Gradually it was found that the daily attendance of the students has
improved in all the classes because of the adoption of innovative methods of
teaching. Students appear to be interested and participative in teaching
process and show understanding of subjects taught. The technique is
definitely proving to be effective.

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REFLECTION

I have 9 years experience in teaching of primary school. In these previous

teaching years, I use basically traditional teaching methods. In which mainly
teachers speak and students only listen. I see the traditional teaching
methods put students in the passive position and do not stimulate creative
thinking of students. Over the last few months, I have been trained and using
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the student-centred teaching method and I know Ive achieved greater

impact

with

the

new

experiences.

Innovative

depends

to

many

circumstances whether we can used the technologies, or any other method.

For me, the innovative play important role for effective teachers. Using the
innovative teaching approach, students understand the lesson more and
easier. Teachers feel easier in teaching. The innovative approach can be
applied to other topic, which I believe the approach is an effective and
interesting method in teaching vocabulary or increasing the listening and
speaking skills. Students in primary school need to see pictures, need to play
the role, then they will easier memories knowledge, and they will internalize
what they learn. Teaching with limited resources can be both incredibly
challenging and extremely educational. Depending on where you teach, you
may be faced with the challenge of teaching classes with limited resources.
Basically, these teaching aids can be used in a number of different ways to
enhance teaching in both large groups (lectures) and small groups. The
advent of the teaching aids using pictures makes easier to use in the
classroom. There are some advantages and disadvantages using the
teaching aids. Some of the advantages are it supplement in verbal
instructions, and provide variety. It was helpful in attracting attention
amongst the Linus students. It also consuming time and energy which
meaningful a lot to most of the teachers. Teaching aids also encourages
healthy classroom interaction between my students. From my perspective it
enable me to create situations for the weaker students. Supposedly, it helps
in creating positive environment and cater individual needs. Overall, for me
teaching aids provide good substitutes for the real objects as they make
learning

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EVIDENCES

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