Bila Ku Renung - As I Ponder

As usual most of us assume that our students remember what was covered in the last class. So without delay we begin today's class from where we left off. Of course someone is bound to put up his or her hand to ask you to explain something of yesterday's lesson. You get annoyed and begin to wonder whether that student was absent or was not paying attention to your teaching. Base on the incident above, how do you quickly find out how much your students have understood what you have taught them? Did most of the students miss the lesson which you thought was clear? How do you find out? How will you know for sure? In order to be sure about these, you have to make sure that you have carried out certain activities related to to the above matter. * Get Useful Feedback * Focus on Student Learning * Define Your Goals Get Useful Feedback : Feedbacks on how much of what we are teaching are students learning we can better focus our teaching. We can also determine what is and what isn't

" School is still, at its heart, a dance of men and women of character. A school is its teachers " Todd R. Nelson. Seorang pengetua sekolah yang berpengalaman pernah suatu ketika meyuarakan kepada guru-gurunya di dalam satu mesyuarat dengan berkata, " Alangkah baiknya jika saya dapat mempamerkan sebuah papan kenyatan di hadapan bangunan sekolah yang berbunyi " HANYA SEBUAH SEKOLAH ". Walaupun kata-kata beliau itu merupakan satu gurauan, rintihan beliau adalah satu kenyataan yang benar. Mana-mana kumpulan guru akan bersimpati dengan kejengkelan desakan dan tekanan terhadap pendidikan di mana mereka terpaksa memainkan berbagai peranan selain sebagai pendidik. Sikap meninggi diri terhadap kerjaya pendidikan, akan sedikit sebanyak memberi kesan kepada guru-guru yang hebat sehingga merasakan diri mereka " Aku hanyalah seorang guru". TEACHERS ACCEPT AN IMPLIED CALL TO STEP IN AND SHOW WISDOM, CANDOR, HONESTY AND DURABILITY WHEN THEY ARE WONT TO BE FOUND ELS