Second cycle In the beginning of this cycle, teacher gave a revision on parts of plants through

113 Therefore, there was minimum level of interaction between group members. Where there was interaction, students did not remember to use appropriate voice level. Therefore, teacher saw the need to remind students about the appropriate use of voice level for the next lesson. After completing the group work, each student was given a post test to see what they had learnt from the lesson. However, there was heavy reliance on teachers to read the questions for them. Therefore, to have a better gauge of students’ understanding, researcher decide to re-teach the current topic after making various adjustments to the content, and question structures. Through this incident, teacher is also reminded the importance of making materials that is according to students capability. After students had completed the post-test, researcher conducted a short discussion with all the students to get their feedback on the teaching and learning processes. At the end of the day, teacher graded students’ post-test and found out that each team should receive a “super” team certificate as recognition. However, in reflecting on today’s lesson, teacher concluded that each team members could do well because of the help from the teachers instead of team members helping out one another to master the lesson content. Therefore, teacher decided not to reward team recognition for this cycle because doing so would make cooperative learning insignificant and decided to re-teach current topic for the next lesson. Also, to account for this weakness, teacher decided to introduce another form of group evaluation through team performance chart to encourage students to be active in learning, motivated and to socialize well with others. In this case, when every group members help in making the classroom conducive for learning by achieving the three factors as a group, the group will receive a star sticker on their team performance chart. Then, when group members performed well in their post-test, group will receive another form of recognition such as star badges for every member within the group.

b. Second cycle In the beginning of this cycle, teacher gave a revision on parts of plants through

question and answer process. During this process, when students answered the questions, they had to spell out the answer. Doing these, teacher not only able to determine any misconceptions but could reinforced on vocabulary words as well. In this cycle, all of the class preparation was similar with the previous cycle. However, teacher changed the pre and post-test questions so that it would be more age- appropriate and student-centred. This was achieved by using a more hands-on activity in labelling parts of plants and in determining the function of each part. 114 During the class presentation, teacher used the same teaching technique as yesterday, direct-instruction. However, teacher observed that students’ had difficulty in paying attention throughout the lesson again. Therefore, to increase active learning, researcher saw the need in making some changes to the presentation method so that students would be encouraged and be motivated to learn cooperatively. To achieve this, teacher decided to incorporate some activities that would result to more student involvement, while reinforcing the lesson concept as well. During the team study, students were told to work in pair. However, only some students were able to do it. As they worked together, teacher observed that some of them could already assign roles within their group. However, there were still some others who were not willing to share team materials with their partner. After completing the team worksheet, each student was being evaluated through post- test. Once the post test was completed, students were told to seat on the eva mats so that teacher could brainstorm with the students on their prior knowledge regarding edible part of plants. Through this discussion, teacher noticed that most of the edible parts of plants that students knew are about fruits. Then, teacher conducted a group discussion to reflect with the students regarding their team study process. Through this discussion, teacher concluded that students enjoyed the activity and that they enjoyed the group work. However, even though there were some improvement on students performance, these students were still not comfortable in working with group as they lacked the ability to socialize with one another.

c. Third cycle