E-learning (Liyana)

1. Copykat Famous Recipe

In my opinion, copykat is a simple tool where students can look up recipe of what they want to cook for their coursework. On top on the recipes, the blogger also posted video on how that particular dish is prepared for certain recipes. This site also allows one to save recipes under the recipe box. This is convenient as the students will be able to recall the recipes that they have chosen. The recipes can be found under the achieves.

2. Center for Food Safety (CFS)

CFS is a non-profit public interest health and environment by limiting use of harmful food production technologies and by promoting organic and other forms of sustainable agriculture. It also educates customers on organic products. However, i think that this website is not suitable for the upper secondary students as i find it too generally. I think this website is too deep for their level of understanding of them. As such i do not recommend this website for them to use as reference. It is useful to them to gain general knowledge but will not help much in their theory or coursework wise.

3. Brainpop

Brainpop is a game site for the different subjects. They have one section on health where in my opinion can be introduced to lower secondary students but not to the upper secondary. It is a simple game where the lower secondary students can recap some of their theories by playing the games. However, this tool is too simple for the upper secondary and will not be useful in their theory and especially coursework.

My Teaching Philosophy

My role as an educator

• To impart new knowledge to students
• To instill values in students
• Help students to develop on their strengths and improve on their weaknesses
• To motivate and encourage students to learn new knowledge
• To care for the well being of the students

How do i view learning 

• Acquire new knowledge
• Acquire new skills
• Know your mistakes
• Develop on old knowledge

What does family & consumer science mean to me

• Home management
• Relationship management
• Food science
• Nutrition
• Textiles 

My view on teacher-student relationship

• Teachers have to be approachable
• Mutual respect
• Mutual trust
• Care and concern

My philosophy as a whole

I want to teach homec in an interesting and fun lessons where students will be engaged in the lessons. It should be inspiring to them and at the same time they will be able to apply what they have learnt in my lesson to real life context. On top of that i want to instill values like integrity and respect in them to prepare them to face the 21st century after they graduate.

1st Practical session

On the 22nd of August, we had our very first practical session. It was exciting to finally be having practical lessons after a very long time. We had to either prepare a one-dish meal with a drink or local dessert or a baked product with a drink or local dessert. My partner,Raudhah and I chose to bake carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and iced coffee. 

The day before practical, Raudhah came over to my house to try out the recipe. Our first attempt at carrot cupcakes failed. The inner part of the cupcakes were not cooked properly. This was due to insufficient baking time. We should have baked the cupcakes longer. However, our cream cheese frosting was a success. It was delicious. But because we didn't cool our cupcakes before frosting, our frosting melted. Instead, we should have waited for the cupcakes to cool down before frosting.

Our not so cooked cupcakes

Luckily for us, our cupcakes turned out well on the day. The cupcakes were cooked and we it was cooled before being frosted. Our theme for the table setting was cafe.We chose a cafe theme as it is a cosy place where one can enjoy his or her cupcakes and iced coffee.

Final product