a) Application of the three areas that you have learnt through this course TSL 3093 (eg:

theories, communication skills, resource and classroom management, etc.)

1.0 Introduction
Classroom management is defined as a process that teacher guarantee the
classroom instruction, the order, the effectiveness, deal with some matters, and arrange the
time and space, and some other factors. Classroom management also refers to managing
the student, studying in the classroom, the teacher and students behaviour and the activity.
In this coursework, I was given a task to observe an ESL lesson during my practicum
session. I had chosen to do my first practicum at Sekolah Kebangsaan Bandar Sri
Damansara 1. After discussing with my cooperating teacher, Miss Yang Suat Biaw, she had
arranged for me to observe her teaching an English lesson in a year three classroom. The
class is year 3 Azam, where it is a mixed ability classroom. The pupils levels of proficiency
are varied which are a few of them are in high proficiency in English, most of the pupils in the
classroom are intermediate and some of them are low proficiency pupils. It is because based
on the discussion with the Headmaster of the school before, Mr Ghazali bin Othman, he
mentioned that the pupils family background are different. There are pupils who used
English language as their mother tongue at home and there are pupils who cannot
understand English language at all. He also said that usually pupils who come from high
economic status family can master the English language very well. While pupils who come
from low economic status family are having problems to understand English language. Thus,
in this situation, teacher has to put on more efforts to overcome the problems.
2.0 Application on how teacher manages classroom
Based on my observation on an ESL lesson, which is year 3 Azam, I found that Miss
Yang was applying the classroom routines in her lesson. First, when she entered the
classroom, the pupils are greeting her friendly. She also teaches the pupils on how to greet
the older. For instance, when I entered the classroom with her, the pupils greet me Good
morning Miss Amalina. Welcome to year 3 Azam.
On the other hand, she also told to the pupils to close the door when lesson is
conducted. It is because to prevent the noise made at the outside of classroom where it will
interrupt the lesson. The pupils were asked to keep the classroom neat and clean. They
picked up the rubbish on the floor and arrange the tables and chairs in the classroom. The
arrangement of the tables in the classroom enables teacher and pupils to move around in
the classroom. For instance, the pupils were moving around the classroom to seek for help
from the teacher regarding on the task given. (Support)

Apart from that, she had used whistle to control the class. For instance, she blew the
whistle to stop pupils from making noise and stay focus with the lesson. During the
observation, Miss Yang was teaching listening and speaking skills to the pupils. Due to her
soft voice, she asked the pupils to come to the front of class and sit on the floor. She also
makes sure that the floor is clean for pupils to seat.The pupils were seating in a semi-circle
and facing the white board. Besides, in order to check whether the pupils are listening and
focus, she ensures that each of the pupils can see her face. The consequence of her action
was Miss Yang able to make eye-contact with the pupils when teaching an English lesson.
Based on the observation, I saw that Miss Yang is applying withitness in her lesson.
It can be proven when she was alert with pupils who are not paying attention where there
were two pupils who read a magazine during the lesson. It shows that Miss Yang was aware
on whats going on in the classroom at all times. She managed to meet pupils who do not
concentrate in the lesson. She had applied time-out to punish the pupils misbehaviour. The
pupil was asked to stand at the corner for five minutes and listen to the topic presented by
Miss Yang.
Miss Yang also used body gestures to explain and instruct the pupils. During the
observation, she was teaching on the topic of From the Sea. She explained to the pupils the
meaning of the words such as pull and fishing rod by doing actions to the pupils. Besides,
she also used sign language such as she put her finger at the mouth which means that
pupils have to keep quiet.
3.0 Reasons for the actions
b) Suggest the possible reasons for the actions/decisions taken by the teacher and
comment whether the actions/decisions are suitable for the learners y reflecting upon
your experiences.
There are many reasons for the actions taken by Miss Yang. First, it enables her to
control the lesson very well so that she can deliver knowledge to the pupils. When pupils are
misbehave, it will interrupt the teaching and learning process to be occur. For instance,
during my observation I saw that there was one pupil who did not focus and read a
magazine during the lesson. Thus the actions taken by Miss Yang such as time-out, blew the
whistle, use body language and sign language can minimize the disruptive behaviour from
happening in the lesson. (Effectiveness of time-out, sign language & body language).
Besides, pupils also will learn to respect the teacher.
Besides that, the actions taken by Miss Yang are very suitable for young learners to learn
English as the second language. It is because according to Joan and JoAnn (2014), young
learners are energetic, social, spontaneous and curious. They are hyperactive, too talkative,

cant sit still and easily distracted. Those statements can be proven during my observation, I
found that there were pupils who did not focus on the lesson and tend to read magazine in
the classroom. In this case, the pupil was distracted by the magazine rather than listen to the
teacher teaches at the front. Thus, it proves that young learners have short attention spans.
4.0 Suggestions
a)

Provide suggestions or recommendations to enhance the teaching-learning session.