Bila Ku Renung - As I Ponder

Plan Pembangunan Pendidikan Malaysia 2013 - 2025 telah pun dilancarkan serta telah digerakkan sejak 2013 lagi. Ia adalah satu plan yang amat besar dan padat yang diwujudkan dalam bentuk sebuah buku setebal 300 muka surat. Saya terpanggil untuk menulis mengenainya setelah tertanya-tanya mengenai plan tersebut. Apa agaknya yang hendak diperbaharui. Apa yang hendak dibangunankan. Sebagai bekas seorang guru minat saya terhadap pembangunan pendidikan tetap ada pada diri ini. Malah saya sentiasa mengikuti segala berita mengenainya. Pada mulanya saya tak lah bergitu minat untuk melihatnya tetapi setelah mendengar berbagai rungutan dan keluhan daripada beberapa rakan guru dan juga ibu bapa tentang keadaan sekolah-sekolah di beberapa tempat, terbuka hati saya untuk mengetahui dengan lebih jelas dan dalam lagi mengenai PPPM 2013-2025. Saya akan bincangkan mengenainya secara berperingkat mengikut tajuk-tajuk yang saya fikir penting. Sebelum itu teringin pula saya mengetahui adakah semua guru tahu...

How do you improve yourself to be a better worker Analyse your POSSIBILITIES Recognise your POSITION Scrutinize your VALUES Itemize your ASSETS Capitalize on your EXPERIENCE Reorganize your CALENDER Visualize your OBJECTIVES Mobilizes your RESOURCES Energize your THINKING Organize your NETWORK Harmonize your CONFLICTS Neutralize your OPPOSITION Minimize your RISK Positivize your ADDICTIONS Finalized your PLANS Verbalize your EXPECTATION Actualize your DREAMS Maximize your RESULTS Colonize your SUCCESS Revitalize your IMAGINATION

How do we assess our students? The most common tools used in most schools is a written test. Here we are only able to test a students understanding of the lessons taught. How do we assess behavior in the classroom and outside the classroom? How do we assess the student's learning skills such as reading, comprehension, writing, thinking and speaking. What about the students ability to express one's self. His ability to deduces and his findings. His ability to express his feelings and thoughts. His ability to identify problems and solve them. These are the most important part of education. It is from here that a child will be able to survive and achieve his goal in life. This is where we teachers play our part and role. We have the difficult task of molding a child to become a useful person in his future. The success and failure of these kids are in our hands as their educator and counselor. We are not only responsible in making sure that they achieve good grades academically. Hi...

I would like to share an article written by an ex-student to his teachers. Hope it is of some comfort to all of us teachers to know that there are those who appreciate our work and contribution in educating them. To Cikgu, With Love. This is not the 16th of May, but yet I would like to just say “Terima Kasih” to those people who taught me ABCD, 1234, tenses, metaphors, hyperboles, calculations of the difficult weird unimaginable logarithms, how plants perform photosynthesis, how to do this and that and tons of other things. They are also the one who taught me the concept of what is right and wrong and to list out the things that they had done for me, it would be nearly impossible. However recently I’ve been reading a lot of negativity being put up against teachers. There are police reports lodged against them, bad news on Buletin Utama and so on. Yes, they are not angels. They are human, just like us. They might make mistakes; no one could run away from that. This suddenly remind...

Here are the other 6 rules. The first 6 has already been posted yesterday. Rule 7  : Necessity is the mother of all invention. "So here I was a first year teacher, with 250 students and a hundred dollar budget. My solution was bucket drumming. I had the idea to go to Home Depot and buy a bunch of five gallon paint buckets to use as drums. The kids love it..... This is my fourth year now, and it's really taken off. The programme has created almost a mini culture of young drummers roaming around Philadelphia,s public schools". Jason Chuong - itinerant music teacher in School District of Philadelphia. Rule 8 : Produce good people, not just good students. ""The greatest challenge I face is to teach my students to be honorable in a dishonorable world. I want them to be decent even though they are growing up in an environment surrounded by indecency and a media that celebrates awful behavior . . . . My job is to show children that there is an alternative way to ...

Some teachers are achieving success in their work while others are struggling to be successful. There is so much to be learned about the strength and weakness of our teaching profession so as to improve and become successful in imparting knowledge to our students. In this book, Katrina Fried wrote about the 12 rules for becoming a Classroom Hero. Here are the first 6 Rules. Rule 1 : Rules are meant to be broken. "My students are kids just like any other kids. Of course they can learn. Of course they can love school. Of course they can build good relationships. Of course they have a voice. They just need to learn how to use it." Michael Goodwin -  English teacher at Concord-Carlisle Regional High School in Concord. Rule 2 : All for one and one for all. "On the first day of school I always tell my students that our classroom is their second home and that our class is an extension of their family. I believe this is just as important as creating an exceptional curric...

Here is something that I would like to share. I found this in a community called Education Revolution in Google. I think it very interesting. Hope teachers reading this will like it. Find more education infographics on e-Learning Infographics