WOW!! WOW!! The 2 lessons experience shared by Darryl and Wan Ching were FABULOUS! Darryl's example clearly showed how game-based and project-based learning can be infused together to produce a wonderful and meaningful lesson. Wan Ching's lesson demonstrated how lesson planning can extend beyond the 5 pedgogical approaches we learnt in the 3rd lesson.
Indeed, regardless of the delivery mode of the lesson, a lesson should be planned to create motivate students by grabbing their interest and curiosity such that they will look forward to subsequent lessons and perhaps even develop interest for the subject itself, not just the lessons. In addition, lessons should be meaningful in that ideas, skills or knowledge will be permanently imprinted in their brain instead of short retention. This is perhaps one of the important concerns for most teachers as many faced students complaining that they "FORGET" things. Darryl's and Wan Ching's examples show that relevance to students and students' participation are important in constructing meaningful lessons. This is also supported by research thus the call for a student-centred and active approach in education.
Also, I think a successful lesson should have learning objectives given at the beginning of the lesson and a recall at the end of the lesson. Students must get a clear idea of what they will pick up from each lesson or every lesson will only be a dull, meaningless repetition of rote learning of text in books.
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