Ashikin's - POST-REFLECTION

Though there are some lacking here and there during the camp, the extraordinary teamwork spirit shown made me feel relieved. Since it was my first time to work under protocol, I was very concern whether or not I was doing it right. So far, none of the problems involved facilitators and the organizer team. Only a few technical problems showed up but the facilitators manage to attend to it very well (yay to all of you!) However, teachers’ presence in the groups made the students even more shy and demotivated because they were afraid to make mistake (in grammar, I assume). This is because teachers have full authority towards students while facilitators will act more like brothers or sisters; hence the students were rather more comfortable with us.

I hope I helped them well throughout the camp and the camp can be considered as a great success since I can see some changes in the students’ confidence. I manage to take over the group after the ‘Tandem Writing’ activity and helped them out for the skit. (My group was the one with the fish headgear.) They were still struggling with the voice projection but I told them to just speak out whatever you understand and be confident. I guess that was what they did. I was more than happy to see them walked up front and acted out because they were very shy at first. Congratulations to all facilitators for their hard work!

Language Camp A: Maisarah’s Post-Reflection

Salam everyone! :)

As the saying goes,

“Hope for the best, prepare for the worst”.

In everything we do, yes we expect everything to be perfect. But, sometimes flaws come in and made us upset. There’s nothing to be worried about as we have prepare for the worst.

Same goes to this camp, I think we all have done our best right? Be POSITIVE, reflect ourselves and let’s make improvements over the flaws in the future. The most important thing is we are whole-heartedly to facilitate this camp and God knows our good intention.  Rewards are waiting for us, friends.

There’s nothing much to say as everything have ended successfully.

Good day mate! <3 

Siti Aisyah's Reflection of Language Camp (Post)

After the camp, like I'm doing now, we reflect. We discuss the problems in class. To me, I did not see a lot of problems during the camp. I guess as I joined too many language camp, I did not see a problem as a problem anymore. My experience has matured me. Cehh XD. I was so used to resolve the problems on the spot and afterwards, I forget about it. For instance, there are a few groups who did not have walls for sticking their mah-jong paper. I walked over to the groups and ask them to stack tables on top of each other and use their flat surface as their diy walls. All in all, I think language camp is a good foundation for students to like English. However, the activity done, in my opinions, is not meaningful for the students. They will not see the act of drawing an object and guess it in their daily life. But it is a good activity for students to learn new words.

Wan Zahidah's Post Language Camp A Reflection

After the language camp, there are many things that I realized. Some of them are I realized that primary students and secondary students have energy levels although they are both young. Secondary students might be active, but primary students are even more active. However, there are also students who prefer to remain passive although the facilitator has tried to engage them into the groups.

Apart from that, we also did a post-mortem during class. In the post-mortem, we discussed on the good and bad things that we found during the language camp. We also talked about the problems encountered and possible solutions to these problems.

Post-mortem is very important for  any activities or events held as this will help the organizer to identify the problems and this will help them improve the next event. 

Language Camp B (Post) by Afiqah Hani Bt Baharom

From the language camp, I realised that it is hard to make the students participate in the program. Most of them chose to be passive participants instead of using all the chances to enhance their proficiency in English. Other than that, I think I should sharpen my skills especially when I need to be friendly and communicate according to their age. I mean, they have different ways of thinking and I started to feel old.

Few days after the program ended, we had a post mortem session with Mr Ghazali by pointing out the strengths and weaknesses of the program. Some of the things that have been discussed are good time management, good corporations between the teachers and facilitators also the facilitators show good team works between them despite of having emergency during the program. While the negative feedback of the program are the problems of the venue, the food and some problems with the ice breaking sessions.

All in all, I feel really glad to participate in the language camp. It is one of the interactive way not only for the students to be able to learn English in fun ways, but as a facilitators, I could also apply or practice all the things that I have learnt in the class for the program. That is all from me. Thanks for your time! 

After Language Camp B by Yuanyi Tan

   I was truly exhausted after the camp. Hence a good excuse to skip a day’s work and just rest properly :P

 There are 10 things that I wish to say about the camp:

1. To the director, I understand that it is never easy to be a leader. Thus, I respect your willingness to take up the job and deliver it the best you can, despite the difficulties and hassles. I once heard from somewhere that we would only be regretful of what we have not done, but never of the things that we have, be it volunteered or being forced, chosen to do. I am pretty sure that every member in the team is proud of you =) So please be proud of yourself too. Thank you for the extra time and efforts spent.

2. To the girls who have been my forever assignment teammates (for this camp particularly, the game master mates). I am aware that I could be such a picky sore at times. I apologize. Deep down my heart, I only wished to get things done ASAP.  As unfriendly as I could be when I am anxious, I could have missed many beautiful sceneries along the road, but hopefully not the beautiful friendship we share. Thank you for having me.

3. To the ones who combined their groups with mine during the first two games, thank you for bearing with me and backing me up for the activities. I did a mistake to have forgotten to bring along my phone. The activities wouldn’t go as smooth without your generosity to let me use yours for time-recording, and I wouldn’t have memories with my group to keep if it wasn’t you who helped me take pictures. Sometimes, misfortune is a blessing in disguise. I was touched when one of you said every educator has a helpful heart per se. Maybe it’s also because of this belief I have with myself, despite all the mischief I have done lolol, that brought me this far to where I am today.

4. To everyone who has been the em-cees for this camp (even only for a short activity), truthfully-speaking, the first strength of the camp that came to my mind is you. You are so natural, attention-grabbing, not awkward, cheerful and just so impressive. I seldom enjoy listening to emcees, but I enjoyed listening to you. Your speaking grammar is almost flawless, that’s the thing I wish (struggle) to acquire most. I think because of you, UTM TESLians have generally left a good impression in outsiders’ eyes, in terms of language proficiency at least. Thank you for the great performance.

5. To every committee member who visited my group, cheered up the atmosphere and contributed ideas, thank you for the kind gestures that has made me and my group better and happier =)

6. To the girl who fetched us to D06, thank you for the kind offer & the comfortable ride :D

7 To every other in the group who has ever answered my qualms and doubts about the camp, who has chit-chatted with me over non-sense or sense-making things before and in between the camp, whom I have taken selfies with after the camp, thank you for the pure kindness and loveliness.

8. To Language Camp A members, the pioneer of this project, thank you for being so generous in sharing with us the things that we should look after, training documents for us to refer to, and so on. Quoting No.3 again, you are true educators (to-be).

9. To our lecturer, thank you for the one-of-a-kind sharing, guidance and understanding all the way.

10.Some said that imperfection is also a kind of beauty. I think our weaknesses are not rubbish, but rather meaningful footprints, of which includes the little defeats encountered in breakfast preparation, students’ discipline management, students’ confidence boosting during drama performance, technical problems, dinner give-way and global-warming (lol). Experience is the best teacher. I believe we can do better in coming good days =)