Seminar Penyelidikan Tindakan 2011
HOW TO IMPROVE TIME MANAGEMENT WHILE HANDLING A SCIENCE CLASS Quek Chok Yew dan Siti Hendon Sheikh Abdullah
Abstract This research is about improving time management while handling a science class. In order to gain results, actions such as proper allocation of time, setting ground rules, placing a clock in front of the classroom, placing a stopwatch in each group and electing a group leader for each group were being taken. Observation checklist, reflective journals and questionnaire were used to collect data for this research. The findings of this research shows that the actions taken had been effective to the selected target group. During the first week, pupils were not time cautious at all. But after implementing the actions, there were slight improvement in the time for them to reach the science laboratory. When further actions were implemented, pupils became more effective in finishing tasks, arriving to the laboratory on time, and were more focused until the last 10 minutes of the lesson.
Introduction During my 3 months teaching during practicum, I had faced many issues concerning the teaching of science. The most obvious reason I could not carry out my lessons effectively was due to my poor time management skills. Student learning depends on how the available time is used and without enough learning time, the teacher will not achieve his learning outcome [1]. As a teacher, I believed that I should abide the time allocated for each phase of the lesson planned. Hence, time is a very important entity itself. As investigation and experiments are main activities in a science lesson, without the sufficient time management, experimental activities will only be wasted as it would only be partially completed. Pupils will not be able to conduct a proper scientific investigation or make a conclusion from the activities. Therefore, I have to make sure that there is enough time for pupils to carry out interesting experiments to promote an optimum learning. I believe that time management is the key to optimize pupils learning in the science lab. Without a proper time management, no matter how well the lesson is planned, the teacher wil not be ale to complete it, thus will not achieve the learning objectives.
Action and collection of data I carried out the action such as allocating proper timing for each lesson plan, setting the ground rules, placing a clock and the usage of stopwatches will be used. The ground rules are that pupils are allowed a maximum 5 minutes delay to reach the lab to minimize the loss of time in the science lesson. Other actions like placing a clock at the back of the classroom, placing a