Interactive Spinning Wheel

Problems
Young children should be exposed to various types of activity. Nowadays, the teaching
and learning process in the classroom carried out by the teacher are too teacher-centered
strategy rather than pupil-centered strategy. The pupils are required to follow the decisions
made by the teacher and do not have any chance to voice out their opinions make their own
decisions. The pupils become passive learners rather than active learners. The pupils just follow
what the teacher asks them to do. As a result, the values of creativity and innovative are not
able to be instilled among the pupils. Besides, the teaching and learning activities are not
interesting to be carried out during the lesson in the classroom. The activities such as questionanswer activity and rote memorization activity are the examples of activity being carried out
based on teacher-centered strategy. As a result, the pupils become bored and do not pay
attention to the lesson in the classroom. They tend to play around and disturb their friends
during the lesson being carried out in the classroom. This indirectly causes difficulty for the
teacher to control the pupils discipline in the classroom.

Solution
Spinning wheel (shown in the picture above) is a type of teaching aid that can be used to
overcome the above problems. Teaching and learning activities become more interesting
through the use of spinning wheel. The spinning wheel has multiple functions to make the
activities more interesting. For example, during my lesson in the classroom, the spinning wheel
is being used in the lesson of teaching phoneme sounds. All the phoneme sound for example
oo, ou, oa, ea, aw, ir are pasted on the wheel board. It also contains of reward marks,
marks reduction and miss a turn on the wheel board. This kind of method is in line with the
application of behaviourist theory in enhancing the effectiveness of teaching and learning
process in the classroom. According to Mok Soon Sang (2008), behaviourist theory states that
providing reward as positive reinforcement can motivate pupils to work harder in the future.I do
according to the concept of spinning wheel that is common for competition lucky draw. Pupils
are required to articulate the sound of the phoneme and write a word according to the phoneme.
As a result, the pupils feel excited and do not feel bored to carry out the tasks provided.
Besides, spinning wheel can also be used to ask the pupils to spin the wheel to select types of
task to be carried out during the lesson. For example, there are three different types of tense
pasted on the wheel board, namely present tense, past tense and past particular tense. If a
pupil spins the wheel and it shows the past tense, then that pupil is required to list out the past
tense. In short, spinning wheel can make the teaching and learning activities more interesting so
that the pupils do not feel bored during the lesson in the classroom.

Objectives
This spinning wheel aims to make the teaching and learning activities to be more
interesting so that the pupils do not feel bored in carrying out the activities during the lesson in
the classroom. This teaching aid also engages the pupils in the teaching and learning activities
in the classroom.

Target group
Year 3 students.

Process of implementation
1. First of all, I show the vocabulary about present tense, paste tense and past particular
tense with the pictures in the slide show.
2. Next, teacher selects a pupil from each group to come out to spin the wheel. If the wheel
shows past tense, then that pupil asks one of his or her group members to present their
answers and write it on the whiteboard. However, if the wheel shows two words miss a
turn then the pupils have to wait for another turn to spin the wheel.
3. Step three is repeated for each group of pupils.
4. At last, pupils are required to write down all the words according to its categories in their
exercise book.
References
Sang, M.S. (2008). Learner and Learning Environment. Perak: Malaysia