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Susahnya nak minta pelajar buat kerja rumah

Bukan semua, saya tau dan ada sesetengah tak pernah tak buat. Tapi yang peliknya, pelajar yang sama yang tak buat kerja rumah yang diberi. Kadang-kadang kerja rumah yang diberi bukan susah, hanya perlu menyalin sahaja, tetapi itu pun tidak dibuatnya. Bukan tidak pernah dimarah, diberi peringatan dan amaran dan hukuman, tetapi yang peliknya pelajar yang sama juga tidak mahu membuat kerja rumah yang diberi. Mengapa agaknya... Pernah dengar juga ada pelajar yang lebih rela dimarahi, dan dihukum daripada membuat kerja sekolah. Terfikir saya, dahulu masa saya sekolah, takutnya saya dengan guru hingga akan menyiapkan kerja sekolah yang diberi. Kini saya sendiri seorang guru, dan saya cuba letakkan kaki saya di kasut mereka, tetapi minda pelajar sekarang jauh berbeza dengan minda pelajar tahun 1990 an ... Telah saya beritau, saya tidak kisah salah, tetapi sekurangnya buatlah jadi saya tau yang pelajar tersebut sekurang-kurangnya telah memberikan semangat dalam mempelajari pegaja...

The importance of reading

No one can deny that reading is really really important. Sometimes I envy with people who able to read a lot and find it easy to understand what they read, because I am not. I need to struggle to understand things and I have to reread it multiple times before I can understand something. But, it does not discouraged me from stop reading. As time goes, now, I find reading is something joyful. Even once, there was this book, so bored, but i could not let it down. I kept reading it until I finish. Oh, I found out also that it is a good activity during free time instead of watching television. Somehow, reading also avoid me from thinking unnecessary thought that haunting me. It likes bringing me to another world. Oh, if only I could tell my students how rewarding is to read. Now, because there are so many entertainment, gadget, and games, reading has been seen as less important and it is so hard to draw students to take interest in reading. They are much more interest to have somethin...

It is so hard to teach making inference

Inference means   the act or process of  deriving   logical conclusions  from premises known or assumed to be  true .  The  conclusion  drawn is also called an idiomatic. The  laws of valid inference  are studied in the field of  logic . - taken from wikipedia.  A few days ago, I taught a student a tuition at home. We were doing questions and answer session, as she needs to practice to speak English. Not I am good at it, it just she needs help. Well, as in learning any language, you have to practice it in order to be able to speak it.  What I found surprising is that she finds it really hard to making inference. Example of making inference ... All men are mortal Socrates is a man Therefore, Socrates is mortal. ( also taken from wikipedia) I know there are more to it in making inference, what I meant was the ability for the 19 years old student to make inference is also tough for her, even though it is a simp...