Reflection

We are now planning to infuse a new topic into CLE, instead of into English. I feel that the pace of the project is starting to increase since the timeline for the project is shortened. However, I think we still can manage to pass up our work on time. Holiday is not the time to relax but to work. What kind of holiday is this? I am quite worried about the interview with George Jacob. I don't know how it will turned up. I hope it will be smooth. I am now starting to lose the interest in the project. "Lost" might be a better substitution. :( Do I learn anything? Individual work is be better than teamwork! That's all for today.

Personal Reflection...

At first we planned to infuse the topic of “eating-less-meat” into English subject, therefore we wanted to interview one of the English teachers in RI. We set Mr. Kelvin Yap as our target and we sent an email to him regarding our RE project and the time and venue for discussion. He was willing to see us on Tuesday during the assembly period.

Mr. Kelvin Yap also thought that our project is a very good idea; he is very supportive towards our project. However, he also thought that infusing the topic into English is quite difficult so he suggested us to infuse it into other subjects, like CLE and PE, instead. We thought that topic is not relevant to CLE but Mr. Kelvin Yap said that CLE at lower Sec is mainly teaching the students about how to take care of themselves so the topic is in fact relevant. Now, we changed our plan to infuse the topic into CLE instead.

We have allocated tasks for each member and planned to finish the tasks during June holidays. Hope that we can meet our targets and present a good product.

Reflection...as the hols come nearer..

We met up with Mr Kelvin Yap....we dicussed about the possibility of infusing of our project idea into the english curiculum of RI. However, after we have discussed it with him, he told us that it would be very hard to infuse it into the english programme of RI as it it very hard to change the raffles lessons.

After that he told us that we could try some other project such as the character and leadership (CLE) or Physical education. So we thought about it and decided to try out our programme on CLE. We are now drafting our proposal all over again to fit it into the programme.

During this holidays, we plan to do many things so that we can quickly finish up on this project. We have already alocate diffrent task for each of the team members. We hope to finish up on all this by the end of this Jun holidays and hope to be ready to present our product by then.

Well hope that we would be able to meet our targets and deadlines by the end of this holiday...

Personal Reflection....May 3rd week...

Another hard week of RE...

Our teacher mentor asked us to draft our fianl proposal that will be inclined towards infusing a change in the curriculum in the sec 1 programme.

Well, this afternoon, we went to the library and finished up on our final praposal...what the...dunno how many proposals we have bee doing already...and i really do hope that this will be the very last one that I'll be doing.

Well, we have done touching up with all the proposal stuff. So now, I am quite confident with our proposal now and I am sure that we will be able to carry out this project quite successfully.

Continue to keep my fingers cross so that nothing will screw up..

Before this we have just been brainstorming all the way with nothing actually done. But now, after weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks of preperation, Im sure that we can really do some real stuff now as all our plans have been made clear to us...

Hope that all the effort that we put in will bring us satisfactory results...

Progress so far

Hi everyone,

RESL is a challenging subject, mainly because even if you work very hard alone, you might not have a successful project because the key elements that make a project successful is teamwork. Partnership is another area.. we need not only to work well with each other, we need to work well with our community partner.

I think as a group, you guys have progress much... though sometimes we are not very clear about the direction ahead, we continue to strive to seek clarity, that effort is important. RESL is challenging because we deal with real people, real issues and real projects, that is why is it not so neat... but there lies the opportunity to learn in a real world context.

I will like to encourage you with the 3 Ps...

Purpose - keep going back to your purpose in joining RESL, in choosing this particular topic and ask yourselves if you are still on track always

People - keep learning how to work with people, learn how to manage the stakeholders and of cos ourselves

Project - keep learning how to manage a project, with all the documentations and planning etc...

yours-in-learning

Personal Reflection...

Last Wednesday, we spent about half an hour to present our project to the other group so we can gain some comments from them. During the presentation, we should introduce our partner to the audience and tell them how we are going to carry out our project, which was what the other group did. However in our presentation, we told the audience about our research rather than how to carry out the project. So this is what we have to learn.

Then we went back to B22 to discuss our project, vege day, with Mr. Yeow. We asked him a lot of questions and also hoped to hear some suggestions from him. In the end, Mr. Yeow said that this event may lack of publicity so we had to think of other event.

Gathered as a group, we discussed about what can be carried out other than vege day and at last we came out with the idea of gaining the principal’s support and infusing the idea of vegetarianism into our curriculum. We sent the proposal to Mr. Yeow and our teacher mentor, Mr. Goh. However, Mr. Yeow told us that the approaching of principal thingy was already proposed for the Food4Life project. And Mr. Goh thinks that the project is good but we have to improve more on it. On the other hand, Mr. Sarkkunan said that this idea is impractical and whatever facts that we gathered were not proven by scientific means hence this is an idea he will never encourage his group to do.

I feel frustrated as every idea we have thought of was rejected and everything is back to zero. We have to start all over again. Brain storm……………………………………..

Personal reflections...

Last week, we had discussed about where should we be heading for our projects. All of voiced out on our own opinions. All of us have different opinions on how we're intending to carry out the project. Mr.Yeow was speechless cuz we kept bombarding him with our opinions. In the ned all the group leaders were called out to discuss. The result was, we gotta do our own project and we no longer will be synergizing together. As a result, we're back to the brain-storming stage, back to the proposal once again.

After that, my team had a discussion to think of what we're going to do for our own project. We discussed for a very long time and all of us finally decided to approach to the principal and to infuse vegetarianism into the curriculam, which was our previous ideas. Once again we sent the proposal to mr.Yeow, hoping that he'll approve our project. After a few days, he replied us, saying that the approaching the prinicipal thingy was already proposed for the Food4Life project. I felt demoralized at that moment. Somehow whatever project ideas that we proposed in the end we wont get to carry it out. But it's okay, it's just part of the learning process. Then Mr.Goh said that the 'infusion into curriculam' one was pretty good, just that we need to improve more on it. But when Mr.Sarkkunan saw this idea, he felt that this idea seems impractical. He said that whatever facts we had gathered was not backed by scientific proofs, hence infusion into the curriculam is a bad idea that he will never encourage his group to do. Once again a big question mark on my head and once again we gotta think of another idea...................

Kern Hong: Personal Reflections....

Another week has passed, we presented our ideas about our vege day to our teacher mentor, Mr Goh and Mr. Yeow. We discussed about that what events we were going to have for our vege day and how would we conduct it. But after the long discussion, Mr Yeow said that the ideas were good, but would probably lack publicity. So we were asked to think of another event to do.



Well, I must say that....yes i feel a little disappointed. We had really spend a lot of our time discussing this event as a group. We are facing difficulties on even planning on what event to hold.



Now, after rounds of brainstorming and discussions we final decided to approach the principal to gain her support by infusing activities concerning vegetarianism into the school's events. Well, hopw that all works well this time round.