News from the Star for the students- come on guys take part....

Greetings of joy, dear teachers,

All too quickly, we're almost at the end of the school year. And we have exciting news to share.

Could you please help us identify students among your teenage flock who have a flair and passion for writing in English? And encourage them to e-mail in a zesty 500-word description of themselves to starstruck2012.star@gmail.com (More details here: www.facebook.com/stuffatschool?sk=app_206206989417003).

Time is of the essence. The closing date is December 11.

Stuff@school, The Star's pullout that goes out to schools on Mondays will be expanded to 12 pages for 2012. It has a year-long young journalists programme called Starstruck! that appoints teen writers to write features, school news and highlight teacher and student views. What fun! Your school can be in the limelight!

The chosen ones will be appointed as Stuff@school ambassadors and they'll even earn pocket money from their published articles.

Starstruck! applicants have to:

• be between Form Two and Upper Six in 2012
• have strong writing skills
• have access to the Internet

We're especially looking out for Starstruck! writers from Perlis, Kedah, Kelantan, Terengganu, Sabah and Sarawak. Because of the reach of the Stuff@school pullout this year and our active Facebook page, entries from the more "active" states like Penang and Selangor have already flooded in.

We publish views and comments taken from our Facebook fan page .. so teachers, if you have a Facebook account, we're rolling out the red carpet for you. Do "like" our page at www.facebook.com/stuffatschool and join the happening online community. We'd love to publish diverse views from teachers around the nation!

2012 will be the second year the Starstruck! programme will run.

Among this year's pool of Starstruck! writers, 24 of the top writers aged between 14 and 19 from Penang, Kedah, Perak, Negri Sembilan, Malacca, Johor, Pahang, Selangor, KL and Sarawak have qualified for either a one-month internship at Menara Star in Petaling Jaya while the lower secondary writers will attend a four-day videojournalism workshop in Pahang.

Stuff@school:

- is a platform to explore, express and enjoy the English language
- is a must-have for wannabe writers and avid readers
- includes features and articles written by teens for teens
- gives the opportunity to be part of our online community

- includes English literature components

- offers an interactive corner for written submissions and views

Dear teachers, could you also please help us obtain subscription orders for Stuff@school?

Our package for 2012 includes:
24 issues of Stuff@school (worth RM28.80): RM25

Sign up for this package and get one of these books free:
1) The New First Aid in English (worth RM24.50)
2) Chambers School Grammar (worth RM20)
3) Discover Grammar (worth RM16)

Or, subscribe to both Star-NiE and Stuff@school pullouts and pick any two of the three books free for only RM53!

Should you have any queries, please email schoolstuff@thestar.com.my

Many thanks and cheers!
Anne Barbosa
Assistant Editor
StarEducation
anne@thestar.com.my
Star Publications (Malaysia) Bhd
Menara Star
15 Jalan 16/11, Section 16
46350 Petaling Jaya
Selangor
Tel: 03-7967 1388 Ext: 1190

Personal coaching- optimizing the students' time

Shu Fen, a girl from 4E has shown her effort to attend school today (14th November 2011). I have to substitute her subject teacher at that time, the teacher is to invigilate SPM examination at other school.
There are only 3 students (as I was told by her) attend school including her. To appreciate Shu Fen's patient and determination to stay in classroom (as the other two was missing-play truant) Teacher Mohd Asri has conducted a personal English reading coaching using 'ladybird keywords' books.
There, the teacher found that she has difficulties in pronunciation and vocabulary. But I appreciate her most and I could see that anybody can learn only if she/he has the effort, patient and ready to obey teacher's instructions.

Shu Fen able to read 3 books that morning.

Opinion and comment are welcome to what other teacher(s) did/ will do if he/she found/finds only a few turned/turns up in classroom? Comment down here

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Best students for SPM

Our hope for 9 As, Loh Siew Tong has scored for SPM 2011 trial examination.

The best seven. Good luck for your SPM examination.

LS with Mohd Asri bin Mat Isa at 5C

Theme:- Environment

Class: 5 C
The goal of LS : to increase marks for paper 1 English Language 1119 by
encouraging students to write in guided writing question.

The objectives:

Set Induction, where the students were asked to cleanup their classroom.

The students were given the words related to the theme discussed and they have to construct sentences from the combination of the words.

Nurul Insyirah and her partner are studying the words to construct

Teacher guides the students on how to construct sentences with the given words.

More members in the group to discuss on what sentences to be constructed.

The lesson plan will be coming soon.

LS with En. Zulkifli bin Yahya

The second school LS was carried out by En. Zulkifli bin Yahya. He is the senior teacher in the school and he uses this opportunity to show his experience in teaching to the observer team. His class is Form 1A which was carried out on 12th August 2011 at 9:45 - 10:20 am, and the reflection meeting was done after that at the school canteen.

The goal of this Lesson Study is to help the students identify the adjectives and to make sentences from the adjective discussed with the authentic material used.

En. Zulkifli is showing the clothes and asked the students to induce the adjectives of colour.

The students were shown the worksheet.

After the presentation, the students are to complete the worksheet given. Here they have to identify the adjectives discussed and to rewrite them into the worksheet.

Reflection meeting at the school canteen. Being impressed by all observer teachers, because En. Zulkifli took trouble to bring all the materials into the classroom in order to ensure that the students could see, feel and smell the realia.

The unique realia he brought was durian fruit, this smell strong in the classroom, and we definitely sure that this lesson will be the most memorable T&L.

LS as English Language panel does in SMK RPM Tg Fauziah

Here is the LS planner for 2011.

PELAKSANAAN LESSON STUDY PERINGKAT SMK RAJA PUAN MUDA TG FAUZIAH
BERIKUT ADALAH JADUAL PELAKSANAAN LS YANG MELIBATKAN GURU-GURU BAHASA INGGERIS:-




Maklumat kepada guru-guru yang terlibat:-

1. Sila sediakan ‘lesson plan’ bertaip mengikut format yang di lampirkan- bersama dengan 4 bahagian refleksi kosong (akan diisi semasa mesyuarat selepas setiap sesi).
2. Perjumpaan akan diadakan selepas sesi P&P.
3. Sebarang pertanyaan sila hubungi penyelaras sekolah:- En. Mohd Asri bin Mat Isa
4. Pasukan LS Bahasa Inggeris SMK Raja Puan Muda Tg Fauziah:-
1. Tn Hj. Azemi bin Abu
2. En. Zahri bin Abas
3. Pn Norma bt Saad
4. Pn Rosnani binti Khalid
5. Penyelaras:- Mohd Asri bin Mat Isa
6. Semua guru Bahasa Inggeris

Mohon dikembalikan keratan di bawah bersama masa dan kelas yang dilaksanakan LS kepada penyelaras.

Yang Menurut Perintah,

signed
(MOHD ASRI BIN MAT ISA)
Penyelaras Lesson Study peringkat sekolah.
Disahkan oleh,

signed
(TN HJ AZEMI BIN ABU)
Pengetua SMK Raja Puan Muda Tg Fauziah