Teens aL.I.V.E. @ An-Nahdhah

mad factory

this post is not going to be about 2A or 2B, but for a different class, 1A, which i had to take over since their ustazah was away.

this class had been notorious since the first week of lessons. and their ustazah had a hard time managing them. i helped along the way and they came to know me as their ustazah, though i doubted they remembered my name.

after a brief discussion with Advisor, she mentioned were there any positive moments out of this 'mad factory'. i honestly had not been thinking about that, but when she mentioned about this, i started to rewind to that day. and yes, there are positive moments, brief moments when i felt like we somehow bonded. i really do. for once, they look like innocent young teens. we'll list them down....

iqbal and ridwan came up to me during break, they wanted to have a look at my playlist in Windows Media Player, having nothing to be secretive about, i let them have a look, and they saw some songs they liked, i allowed them to play (since it's break time)

they downloaded songs from my hp, talked about their favourite songs. and one very good question was asked by iqbal, "Ustazah, what do you look for in a song? is the lyrics or the music important to you?" i shared with them my thoughts.

azan gave a very good goal (compared to the rest who are plain cheeky): to pass exams

afiq actually helped to arrange the chairs back properly without me asking to.

iskandar and hakim were amazingly concentrating with their group's projectwork for the first 10 minutes, before getting distracted by the rest!

the group lead by ewan (there's iqbal, ridwan, azan and abdullah) was the best group to show exceptional hardwork and concentration in their projectwork.

the girls helped to clean the classroom after the mess they made.

khairi voiced out more than before (he was a weirdly quiet boy).

yassin and 'harry potter' helped me to bring back all my stuffs to the teachers' room after class.

in the end, ALL OF THEM did great last class.

we really should open up our eyes to see the best of the students, not only focusing on the obvious.

not forgetting 1B, the class way more smaller in number than 1A and better behaved i must say. i have one very cool way of letting them to 'stop' doing their projectwork when time is up. (one thing about them, they always like to 'negotiate' when it comes to 'time').

i played a song and tell them, as soon as the song ends, they have to stop their work, or change group. and they actually anticipated it! without me having to shout "Time's Up! Time's Up!"

i was actually thinking that i might have failed these students for i thought i did not manage to teach them anything, but reflecting back, they are learning without they themselves knew, even without me realising it.

mad factory no more.

posted by learningteens @ 11:03 PM