Material Development

As a teacher, material development is something that is crutial and important yet not being recognised by many educators out there. As simple as making the students to read and answer simple questions based on the material prepared for the students to simplifying the material given would be something should be taken into big consideration of how and what to be taught to the students. Quite a bizzare differences between the material that is being prepared by the teacher for the students and the ready prepared text by the school. As a responsible and dedicated teacher, one should be considering the fact that his/her students' ability in analysing and interpreting things would be a huge differents from one another. Therefore, material should be prepared accordingly to cater the students ability and their performance. For me, the things that should be taken into consideration is :

         :: The students' prior knowledge
         :: The students' performance
         :: The students' interest
         :: The students' environment
         :: The students' language ability and capacity
         :: The material access
         :: The students' religion and race

If a teacher is able to catch up to the 6 criteria that I had listed in the above, the material that is being prepared for the students would be the best activity which suits the students in all aspect. Most teacher prepared their material judging by the way students perform in their examination. That would be something that is not fair for the students development towards their cognitive improment where it should be more on developing their cognitive improvement by providing the students with good input, good material and good suplemantary which would enable them to walk on this earth proudly as a educated human being.

The approach that is being inculcated with the teaching also plays an important role in getting the students to get to what the teacher had set for them. In order to do so, the teacher should be able to interact and give feedback towards the students reaction including verbal and non-verbal. Usually, the utmost crutial thing is the students' non-verbal reaction which greatly provide the teacher with the gist of how her/his teaching went on. Nothing would be matter if you are unable to detect the students' problem while teaching them. Indeed that grades make a good comparison between good teacher and excellent teacher. If I were to choose, i would rather prefer being as a good teacher rather than excellent teacher because a good teacher takes care of the students' development and well being. It would be much or way better to have all of the students to pass the examination but with extra information with them and real life communication knowledge rather than having a lot of grade A and at the same time there is a failure also.

Material development is important to the students because it could help them develop their communication skills and also meet their field of interest in which should be discovered by the teacher him/her-self. This is where the students explore what is their interest and know what they are capable of with what they want to do for their career. Its a way to motivate the students to love english language.

If a material that is being prepared by the teacher is just meant for the students to pass their examination then it would not be something that is meaningful and come in handy to the students. Why not just drill them rather than giving them craps that they don't even like because it will just make them becoming a passive students. My lecturer used to say that students nowadays are no far from zombies. This is because they were being mouthfeed every single time. If this continue to happen in the future, our society would be passive, lazy and undevelop.