TASK C : Reflective Report

Performance kit is a set of teaching aids that helps teacher to have an effective
teaching and learning process with the students. The kit are integrated with three elements
of Arts in Education which is visual arts activities, music and movements that enable pupils
to explore activities, acquire experiences and expressions related to their sensory
development. In Task A and Task B, my group mate and I have designed a teaching kit which
is an innovation of an apron into a simulation model of our body system and conducted a 30-
minute lesson on the Science KSSR Year 4 topic of human life process : Digestive System
and Excretory System. While conducting the performance, we have implemented theories,
knowledge and skills besides discovered some strength, weaknesses, and ways to
overcome the problems that will be discussed in this reflective essay.

In this kit, we comprised the three elements of Arts in Education which is music in
the form of jazz chant which is chanting on the name of organs involved in both system,
movements involved in the activities that requires students to move around helping their
friends to complete the apron organ kit and visual arts on the drawing and labelling of the
organs. By doing this, we can express new knowledge in new ways that can prevent
students from getting bored thus losing their focus on the lessons. Besides, through this
elements we can organize information and knowledge to become more accessible to
students. For instance, we sort out the jazz chant for name of organs, the improvised apron
for place of the organs and fill in the blanks activities for functions of the organs. We also can
strengthen students understanding with continued activities after teachers presentation on
the content.

The theory that has been put into practice is Constructivism Theory which believed
that students create their own understanding or concept based on their prior knowledge and
experiences (Zulkifli Yaakob & M. Jamel Ismail, 2011). One of the characteristic of this theory
is teacher needs to encourage and accept student autonomy and initiative. Hence, in our
simulation, we just act as a facilitator and students are the one who plays more roles in
conducting the teaching and learning process. They need to chant, build a digestive system
and excretory system on the apron kit plus label its function by themselves. We just facilitate
them throughout the process and correct them in certain time. Next, teacher have to provide
opportunities for pupils to develop new knowledge and understanding through student
participation in real-world situations. We actualize this by making the invisible system in our
body to visible kit that can be touched and seen by the students in order for them to relate to
their own body. Through this, they can know precisely where the organs are located and its
functions for body system.

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 The strengths of this kit are it is very convenience for teacher which teacher can
bring this kit everywhere and conduct teaching and learning process outside the classroom.
It does not required any electrical appliances in order to function. Therefore, teacher does
not have to face a problem such as no electricity and malfunction of the equipment. Besides,
by using this kit, it encourage students to be actively participate in the class as it needs two
way communication in learning. Students are required to move around and play the games
rather than having a chalk and talk session with the teacher. Moreover, through this kit it
also can foster cooperative and communicative skills between students in the class as they
need to do in group task. Therefore, students can also inculcate good values and improve
speaking skills when doing this activities.

The weaknesses of this kit are it only can be played by the same gender of
students. This is due to the activities that need students to paste the organs on top of their
friends body. If we let them play the game together, we feared that it will lead to other
problems such as sexual harassment. Even though they just in primary school, but it does
not mean that they does not think or take something in the wrong ways. Next, this kit is more
to student centered learning which students required to done the activity in a group that
might cause some of the students being left out. This is because the cognitive level for all
students in a class are not the same. Some of the students may have low cognitive level that
needs another approaches in learning. They need more attention and guidance of teacher in
acquiring knowledge. Hence, this technique is less suitable for some students that will lead
to an ineffective teaching and learning process.

Ways to overcome this problems are teacher need to instruct students clearly and
divide them by following their gender to avoid mixing of girls and boys. This could avoid
students of the opposite sex from touching each other. Next, teacher can give extra
exercises for student after they completed the task by using this kit. This is to assess
students level of comprehension on the topic and if they cannot do certain questions they
can ask personally. Therefore, teacher could recover what students had left out in the class.

In conclusion, elements of Arts in Education can help teacher to facilitate learning

and teaching process in a new and attractive way of representing content. Teacher needs to
be creative and innovative in conducting the class. This is to ensure that students are more
self-dependent and at the same time can generate students high level thinking order. Not
only that, students also can enjoy and become more interested to learn Science subject.

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