day 16 - presentation day

Another IS-Insight to China lesson thought by a new Chinese teacher in the morning. I didn’t have a chance to get to know his name as I went class late. He speaks through a microphone where all the students can hear him via the headphones that were placed on our class table. He taught us some of the Chinese table manners, wedding ceremony, proper use of chopsticks and “feng shui” (Wind and Water). I found that all that he taught was interesting. Had lunch again at canteen 2 before us head for our afternoon class.

IS Class

students with microphones

back view of me

End of Class

We went through chapter 5 and completed Quiz 5 in addition of assignment 1 presentation. Mr Joseph was very strict with our presentation. All of us had to submit our peer evaluation form to him which keep all of us alert and listen properly to our friends who are presenting as we have to rate our friend’s performance. We ended class quite late because of the presentation and there is still a group which has not presented. We were all very excited to play another game with the Chinese students again and so we rushed back to our dorm and changed to our sport attire. Sadly, they were not at the field, perhaps they thought we will not be playing as we reached the pitch quite late. Therefore, I went for a 2.4km run instead.

BPE class

mindmap of chapter 5 on screen

The Presentation Begin with

Roy's group

My Group

Yoke May Group

Polim's Group but didn't present due to some technical error
so their group is being postpone to tomorrow

Daniel's Group

Eshlyn's Group

Gloria's Group

Mr Joseph strictly observing on our presentation

my reflection :

Many are saying that Singapore school facilities are better compared to Wuhan(china). Today’s IS lesson made me think otherwise. The classroom has earphones on every student’s desk. Students can actually hear from the earphone while the teacher in front speaks through the microphone. Volume can be adjusted. I have to admit that there are advantages and disadvantages.
Advantage: 1.teachers need not raise their voices while teaching in class.
2.students have no problem listening to the teacher as volume is adjustable.
Disadvantage: As teacher is sitting down teaching, it is rather difficult for the teacher to spot students who do not pay fully attention in class.
This facility does help the teacher a lot. Many teachers suffers throat problems after raising too much of their voice during lectures.
I do not mind if this facility is implied in Ngee Ann as it is a win-win situation for both teachers and students.