Teaching Practice - 6th April 2009

Year 2

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Last Monday I'd assigned some work for the Year 2 pupils to do, typing out the lyrics of

"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".

First of all as the lesson induction, I played a Youtube video of the nursery rhyme so that they can sing along looking at the lyrics.

Youtube video

Next after singing, I assigned them to their respective seats and asked them to launch the Microsoft Word program and type out the lyrics. Some pupils might have difficulties in spelling the words and therefore I'd typed out the lyrics on the projector screen for them to refer.





Pupils who had completed the lyrics will be rewarded with a sticker as an extrinsic motivation.

One important point I realized while conducting the lesson was, having sufficient resources while conducting the lesson is very important. With 15 working computer desktops and another 10 units of Macbooks, every pupils get a chance to do their work alone without having to share with their classmates.

And because of that reason, everyone was very engaged in their work and the environment in the computer lab was so peaceful and quiet.




For the last 5 minutes of the lesson, I gathered them again, sitting down on the floor and facing the board and sang the song again.