"Be Our Guest" Wow Classroom Experience - Day 3

written by: Ann Teoh

Dr Todd Nelson

Which Civil Rights Should We Keep?

If it had not been for the first amendment to the US Constitution, which guarantees all US citizens the right to assemble and speak freely, Martin Luther King Jr, would not have been able to deliver his famous “I have a dream” speech when he organised a massive march in Washington in 1963.

Using video and music, the guests were introduced to America’s Constitutional Bill of Rights by Dr. Todd Nelson, Head of the School of Business and Social Sciences , on Day 3 of the “Be Our Guest” Wow Classroom Experience.

Click on the following links to You Tube and you can listen to the rap and hip hop songs on Bill of Rights.

WOW CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE!

written by: Ann Teoh

If there were tears at kindergartens and primary schools as it was the first day of school in January 2011, it was certainly a different scenario at KDU University College. And rightly so! Fresh-faced, eager-looking teenagers filled with friendly smiles, thronged the hallways and Lecture Hall E at their first day in KDU University College.

They were joined by many school leavers who had just completed their SPM exams and who were in a dilemma trying to decide the most suitable programme to study. They have to take a host of factors into consideration: cost, transport, lecturers’ experience, the reputation of the university college, the transferability of credits, and the career pathways.

A 3-day series of "Be Our Guest" WOW classroom experiences were hosted for them to help them make that crucial decision. For Day One, if they were unsure what career direction to head for, Ms Nicole Noh (Counsellor) did certainly set them on course with her talk on Career Profiling . Using the RIASEC test, the students soon discovered their personalities and what they enjoy doing most.

Dividing them into their personality-groups, they were given some materials to create a transport model. True to their personality profiles, each group either artistically created a unique mode of transportation or systematically and methodically modelled one, or as the one and only one Investigator-type personality soon discovered, he could analyse how he could plan and design one single-handedly. Those who belong to the Social type personality, would chat their ways to completing their project (or almost completing), and the Entrepreneurial type would be persuading each other that his idea is the best.