Across the Land

Hasil kerja tangan pelajar tingkatan 1 untuk PBS.  Satu permulaan yang menggalakkan di bawah bimbingan Pn. Suraya.

Some students in 3J have returned the reply forms to the PTA meeting this saturday. One of the parents commented about the state of the girls restroom. When I told the girl Z that her parent must attend the meeting to voice whatever things about the school, Z immediately striked out the statements. I called her parent, the mother, if she would like to attend the meeting. She said, no. How is her daughter doing in school? So far, she's okay but she wasn't in the morning assembly. What? Was her best friend there? Who? LS . No, she wasn't there, too. Thank you. At 10 something, she smsed me that she had sent Z to school. Make sure she is in class. I went up to check and there they were. I told them I considered them absent today since they came in after the second period. I smsed Z's mother and thanked her. When I went down the stairs, the other 2 girls came after me asking if I had called their parents. I called but no one answered. Now, did u give me the right numb...

Semalaman tidak tidur kerana nak menyiapkan soalan akhir tahun  tingkatan 2. Dah lama tidak 'set' soalan memandangkan kertas soalan disediakan oleh JPWPKL. Sekarang saya haya menyediakan modul latihan topikal untuk kelas tambahan dan sedang membuat sedikit demi sedikit latihan subjektif dan objektif untuk pelajar HALUS saya. Satu cabaran kerana pelajar HALUS saya lemah dalam Bahasa. Kasihan juga saya lihat mereka terkial-kial nak belajar. Hingga ada lemah semangat, bersungguh mereka belajar tapi markah ujian mengecewakan. Jadi, apabila 'salesman' datang nak jual buku-buku ulangkaji, saya mengeluh kerana tiada satu buku latihanpun yang sesuai untuk golongan pelajar ini. Saya minta  mereka supaya menyampaikan pada syarikat mereka pesanan saya.."mesti laku buku-buku tu. Punyalah banyak sekolah akan order nanti". Mereka cuma dapat mengiyakan sahaja. Disampaikan atau tidak, tak tahulah. Saya memerhatikan cara pengajaran guru hari ini. Saya juga merefleksi juga...

I return the students answer sheets today. 3B, 3I, 3J and 3K. I went over the questions with 3B students and I was happy that they paid attention. But not all. The students, i noticed, love stories. About anything. As we discussed about rivers, i told them about my trips to the khlongs in Bangkok, Pasir Salak at the bank of Perak River and the rivers that i came across like Kelantan and Pahang Rivers. And we discussed about the change in the height of Kinabalu mountain and the Everest. I don't really like churning facts after facts without telling them the little stories behind them. Even the students in 3I got interested when we talked about the all time favourite, chocolates. That, in the process of teaching them how to draw 'rajah aliran' for the process of producing cocoa. However, age is catching up with me. I have become a forgetful person. I hope i can still remember stories or facts that i have collected in my almost two decades of teaching career.

Since it rained till abt 3.30 this evening, I decided to stay back in school to finish my A JK Jemputan report on Hari Anugerah Cemerlang . It took more than two hours, finishing at around 4.30 and while doing it, I also took a peek at my geog teacher's record book. She's a new teacher here and I want to know her development in teaching this subject. Form One topics are very interesting to teach because you are teaching children who are still childish and yet old enough to understand serious issues. I have a lot of things to do that I don't know where to begin. I want to prepare contents for the taklimat I'm going to give on Pembinaan Item . Then, there is my ppt presentations on the form one topics that needed some facelifts before the kelas bimbingan geografi which we had planned to carry out in the months before the Mid Year exam. Plus the exercises related to these topics. Next week, the form three students will start their Kerja Kursus Geografi PMR and definite...

I came home late this evening, nearly 7.00 oclock. The girls had their 1st netball practice today and I like their 'semangat'..really bersemangat. And thanks to Pn. Muna for coaching them for almost 2 years. But alas! their match is just two weeks away. This morning I scolded my students for not passing up their works. And also for not completing them. Same students. I told them that if they have any problem with the work I gave them, they should have seen me. I could go over the problems with them. But don't let the works get accumulated. I don't know but for the first time in my teaching career, I told my students to be professional in their 'job' as a student as much as I am in my work as an educator. The students are not really stupid. Many of my students are not proficient in Bahasa Melayu. This really impedes the process of learning the contents of my teaching. Usually it is a one way process using the lecture method. It is not good, isn't it? Howev...