Week 10&11 : Alia's Korea-Malaysia Teacher Exchange Programme 2018

The project has been carried out extensively this past 2 weeks. Students had practiced the script and had rehearsal as a group. Then, they presented the drama for scene 1 until 9. At first, the students were shy and had low self-confident to present as they kept on mentioning that they are not good in English. However, as a teacher, I told them to try and speak. Then, I prepared for them costumes, which arebajumelayu, bajukurung and hijab. The students got really excited to try one the outfit, be in character and wanted to perform their best. By the end of the project, it could be seen that the students were reading aloud, improving their pronunciation, vocabulary, showing self-confidence and team work in using English with their friends in front of the classroom. Post-test was given to see the effectiveness of the activities. Results shown that they had improved in their vocabulary as the number of students improved is more than 50%. Finally, after this project ended, I have compiled all the activities and created a “Reader’s Theatre in South Korean Classroom: An Exploration Of Malaysian-Korean Folklore”module as part of “Global Citizenship in Education” initiative and material to be used by teachers for future GCED drama lessons. It is beautiful and colourful that various cultures were exposed through folklores and drama to the students. With the awareness of the similarities and differences of various culture, understanding, respect and harmony can be built through communication. By using lingua franca, society can achieve an understanding easily albeit the different views. As an educator, experiencing teaching students in another country makes me realize that even though we are from different school in different countries, the challenges in education is almost the same. I am glad to learn and exchange knowledge with the teachers and students in the past 3 months and realize that we should address educational challenges together and improve our global education in order to create an advanced world nation together. Besides project and lessons in class, the school had given us opportunity to learn to take up ceramic lessons and cjoined cooking academy: make cheese bread with the students. I learned these skills and appreciate the art and knowledge in creating them. I would like to expose my Malaysian students to these skills too. Next, the school also had a school trip for us to Nami Island and rail bike. At the rail bike, we experience the amazing view of Chun Cheon by cycling and the track had led us to 3 creative tunnels, such as elf tunnel, bubble tunnel and music tunnel. I was amazed by how creative the track was. Nami Island was amazing as it was filled with beautiful nature. The students and I ate at a halal restaurant there for lunch, hence the students were exposed about halal food through this.Next,I am also amazed by the teachers’ team work as they had a small celebration and foot soccer tournament to celebrate the vice principal’s homecoming. I really like how simple it was as it does not consume other teacher’s time to prepare the event but still able to gather theteachers.This is how to build the spirit of teamwork. I also learned that the government provides fire mentainance check twice every year. I was also lucky to listen to a career talk by Musical theater production and watched them perform. I really admire that the way teacher create programmes in school as it shows that the teacher treats students like an adult by exposing them to serious content, such as career. Few subjects thatI feel amazed about is technology and career subject. These subjects allow students to explore the potential careers they can venture into.

 Si Tanggang's Drama Project