TPCK

Hi everyone. Welcome to my third entry. This entry is about TPCK and how I relate it with the lesson that I had carried out during my teaching practice.

I believe that after a thorough discussion about TPCK in the previous class, all of us now have idea about what it is all about. Besides, the three articles help us to understand better about the concept of TPCK.

TPACK or TPCK covers the 3 essential qualities of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching. In this era of information, teachers need to know not just the subject matter they teach and the general pedagogical strategies, but also the manner in which the subject matter can be changed by the application of technology. I think we have been discussing about the importance of technology knowledge for teachers in the past three weeks.  Thus, I’m sure that all of us are aware of it. Now, talking about how I illustrate my lesson with TPACK, here’s my lesson’s background.

General Particular

Subject: English Language

Class: 3 Wibawa

Language of Proficiency: Mix Abilities

Enrolment: 25

Theme: World of Knowledge

Topic: Flora and Fauna (Animals actions)

Focused skill: Listening

Integrated skill(s): Reading, writing

Lesson objective(s): By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to:

i) listen to the song and do the animals action

ii) associate the animal with its action.

Language focus: Action words (shake, stomp, swing, fly, leap, and slither)

Previous knowledge: Plural and singular verb, animals (elephant, leopard, bird, snake, bear and monkey)

Teaching aids: Laptop, speakers, animals’ sound, clip video, animals’ stick puppets and task sheets.

Set Induction:

For set induction, I had played the animals sound that I taught and asked the pupils to guess. There were six animals taught which are elephant, leopard, bird, snake, bear and monkey.

Pre Listening:

During this stage, I had introduced the language focus by associating the animals with their actions.

Elephant-stomps

Leopard-leaps

Snake-slithers

Bear-shakes

Monkey-swings

Bird-flies

After that, by using my laptop and speakers, I had played the clip video of The Animal Boogie to the pupils. I stopped at certain point and asked them question such as, ‘what’s animal stomping its feet?’. I played the clip video again, stopped at the second animal, and asked question related to the animal. I repeated these steps until I covered all the animals. Here, I have inserted the link of The Animal Boogie’s clip video from You Tube.

While-Listening.

In this stage, the pupils get to do the actions. I divided them into six groups and each group is given different animal. I also provided them with the animals stick puppets to represent their group. I played the clip video and they listened to the song first before they do the actions. Pupils waited for their turn to do the animals’ action. For instance, the elephant’s group had to listen to the song and when they heard ‘It’s an ELEPHANT!’ then only they stomp their feet. Same applied to the other groups.

Production.

Pupils had been given task sheets to be completed.  They were given sentences like ‘The monkey _________ from tree to tree. They had to fill in the blanks with the correct action word.

Closure

I concluded the lesson by re-calling all  the animals and actions that they had learned on that day.

In this lesson, the pedagogy strategy that I had applied was Total Physical Response because I asked the pupils to do the animal actions. It involved body movements such as stomping their feet, shaking their body, jumping, swinging and raising up their hands.

TPR can be used to practice and teach various things. It is well suited to teaching classroom language and other vocabulary connected with actions. Thus, I believe that TPR is an effective strategy to be used when it comes to teaching action words. I think the children can learn better when they can relate the verb with the action by demonstrating it.

In a nutshell, I can conclude that I had delivered the content which was about action words through TPR strategy and enhanced my lesson deliverance by showing clip video about the animal actions. I think that’s all for this post. If you have any query, comment, or suggestion on how to improve it, feel free to do so. Your comments are very much appreciated. 🙂