ASSURE MODEL

Honestly, I have not started doing smartboard yet. I did not even bother to start it. What were the reasons? Shouldn't I stop practising procrastination after the lesson I learned from the first assignment? Had I not suffered enough? Well, the reasons were:

1. I just love to procrastinate.

2. There were two weeks more.

3. There might be lessons exposing to me some good examples of lessons regarding smartboard.

These reasons made my second assignment still unattended. I did feel bad whenver i thought about it. I knew i would suffer later but those reasons prevented me from beginning it.

Sadly, my assumption was wrong when one of the tutors named Miss Chin started this week's lecture by introducing us to a model named ASSURE model. I was a little bit disappointed for no guidance was given regarding to the smartboard assignment. Thus, it was quite impossible to allow myself concentrate on the lecture. Honestly, I did not even bother to know what the model was. But my attention was successfully grabbed when Dr Maznah continued the lecture by telling us what each letter of 'ASSURE' represents. Each letter represents the stages involved in the learning process. I found it awesome for it was thoughful of her to think of this. This summarised everything about the model in a way. I listened to it and the awe governed everything. All of us seemed to pay attention to the model.

From this model, I realised that it was insufficient to teach based on books only. In other words, this model showed how much it was better to incoporate both out-of-class resources with technology to come up with the best possible teaching materials. Most importantly, this model promotes different teaching approaches namely focusing on variety students' learning styles and constructivism. These approaches accompanied with the materials said earlier enable teachers to ensure much learning to take place in the students. This is definitely a big achievement for the objective of every lesson is to make sure that students learn.

All in all, I learned something big in teaching life. Teachers' biggest success only happens when the students learn something from the lessons. Thus, any possible ways need to be used and applied by teachers to make sure students learn. And I think this model is created for this reason. I will of course apply this model in my future teaching.