What is Amanduk? It's TEACH in the Bajau language! Welcome to Amanduk: PLC to Podcast for Teachers. Every week, we bring you bite-size information and reflection on all things related to teaching. We are a group of teachers currently teaching in the beautiful district of Semporna, Sabah and we meet up every Friday over coffee to talk about work with zero judgement and a hundred percent support.
This is part one of the Individualized Project Based Learning (I-PBL) sharing by Miss Stella Veronica. She is currently teaching at SM Datu Haji Panglima Jakarullah, Semporna, Sabah. This I-PBL has been her tool for remote learning and classroom based assessment with her Form 5 students. In this episode, she explains the concept, framework, and execution of the project. Stay tuned for Part 2 for exemplars of the project.
21 Mar 2021
CEFR-aligned Curriculum Talk with Dr. Ilha
Teacher Nana and Dr. Ilha talk about the core beliefs of the CEFR-aligned curriculum, the mindset to embrace as we embark on this new curriculum, the foreign contents in the textbook and assessments that come with the curriculum. Dr. Ilha is a master trainer for CEFR-aligned curriculum for secondary school and she has a Facebook group dedicated for sharing information and ideas related to the curriculum. Don't forget to check it out!
8 Nov 2020
(Series) PERMA for Teachers: Positive Emotion
A model in Positive Psychology is PERMA, which is an acronym for Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationship, Meaning, and Achievement. While you can use this model for your life in general, PERMA is definitely useful in your work-life such as working in a school. Over the next five episodes, we are going to take a look at each component of the PERMA Model and see how we can apply it in our workplace and career.
15 Oct 2020
Chill Convo: Facing Up to Anxiety
If you say "same" to anxiety memes out there, chances are, you probably have it too and turn to humor as a way to deal with it. Would you go for professional help though? I might after this conversation with Teacher Stella. She sought professional counseling for her anxiety and it has helped her cope and self manage effectively.
5 Oct 2020
Reflection: Remote Teaching during TEMCO
It is crucial to learn from experience. The first week of TEMCO has ended and a few of us got together to reflect on our online lessons for the week. Teachers shared how their online lessons during this second movement control order differ from the first one (March to June). In this episode, we summarise those reflections in three aspects: preparedness, content, and participation.
26 Sept 2020
Project OPOL: Fighting Period Poverty
Period poverty is real and is one of the reasons girls are skipping school consistently. Project OPOL (One Pad One Love) started on 7 July 2020 and is expanding and inspiring the community to fight period poverty. This project is an initiative by 3 teachers in Sabah: Ms Donna, Ms Marcella, and Ms Stella who are passionate into bringing equity for the girls into their schools. In this interview, Ms Stella shares the drive, process, and impact of their journey of OPOL.
19 Sept 2020
Politics and Education: Being a Teacher and a Youth of the Nation
Teacher Zell who is currently teaching in Beluran, Sabah is a Digital Parliament P173 Putatan Representative. In this interview, she is sharing how her passion in education policy led her into Digital Parliament which then opened so many doors of other initiatives for the youth.
13 Sept 2020
Olidas: Bringing social emotional mindfulness into the classroom
Olidas means "Healthy" in the Dusun language and is a playbook/lesson plan on student's social emotional well-being and agency. Teacher Juliana Rushdi and her colleagues at SMK Bugaya, Semporna are currently running it in their classrooms and in this interview she is sharing the reasons, process, and impacts Olidas has among her students and for herself.
5 Sept 2020
Developing Learner Agency through Competition
Preparing students for competition is a lot of work and do they really retain what they gained from it? Teachers Jessica Lee and Susan Balong share their students' journey of growth as they participated in the Students Doing Good (SDG) and Student Leadership Camp (SLC) competitions in 2019.
30 Aug 2020
Equity in the Classroom and Teacher Team
Equity is a big word in education. What is equity in the classroom, what can we teachers do to enable equity in the classroom and in our team of teachers, and how does this relate with quality education?
29 Aug 2020
Recognizing and Embracing Little to Big Successes
Success is happening right now in your life and is not a destination. You just have to recognize and embrace it and be happy. Why? because a happy teacher makes a happy classroom. Miss Jodi reflects on the forms of success and how to recognize and own it.
26 Aug 2020
Teacher's Passion to Learner's Motivation
"Show your passion for what you do. The more excited you are, the more excited your students will be. Teacher Hafizah shares how her passion for English in an exam-oriented environment where the language is sidelined transformed her students' motivation to learn the language for themselves.
26 Aug 2020
Effective Feedback in Teaching and Learning
Feeling lost about how to give effective feedback in your class? This episode with Miss Nana will help you consider some feedback-giving techniques that you can try in your own lessons.
26 Aug 2020
Teachers' Self Care: Maintaining Social & Emotional Well-being
In this episode teacher Saidatul shares her reflection from the Critical Friends Group meeting on an aspect often disregarded for teachers. Mental health and emotional well-being is vital - after all, happy teachers make happy classroom.
26 Aug 2020
Pilot: The PLC I want
Professional Learning Community activities are empowering and useful for teachers. But have you ever felt dragged to these PLC meetings and programmes? If you’re nodding yes, most probably they are not the kind of activities you actually, truly needed. In this episode, English Language teacher, Miss Jodi shares her reflection on the characteristics of the critical friends group meetings that have been giving her the fuel she needs to run her Individual Learning Profile curriculum with 107 students!
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