Session 6

In this session we were asked to do an activity called “post-box”. During this activity we were asked to think of various issues in the class and possible strategies to manage them. The rest of the class had thought of many issues and suggested a number of strategies to manage them. After the “post-box” activity we were asked to split into groups. In our group we have identified several issues that we encountered in the class, which includes the following:

• Students make too much noise: Students included students talking too much and asking too many unnecessary questions.
• Lack of attendance.
• During the library session, the computer which was used for demonstration and PowerPoint presentation suddenly not working.
• The PowerPoint that you need for teaching somehow is not opening from your hard drive.

From our group we have suggested the following strategies:
• Stopping teaching and looking at them.
• Asking them to share the matters that they are discussing with everyone within the class.
• Ask the students to leave the classroom if they are too noisy and/or bullying other students.
• About 30 minutes before the class, the teacher should check all the equipments within the classroom to ensure that they are all working properly.
• Always saved a back-up copy for your PowerPoint to your flash drive (or email the PowerPoint to yourself) if you are using PowerPoint for teaching (it will avoid the problem of unable to open your PowerPoint file from your hard drive).

The rest of the class had different issues and matters and they also had suitable strategies to manage the class. I believe this session was extremely useful for how to manage the class more effectively.