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The Things I do as a teacher...

I am a teacher, my job is to teach. Full stop. I wish it could be just that. I have my specialization and focus, that's what I should do. Just teach. Teach my pupils the subject that I've been told to. I have to adhere to that. But, almost all teachers know, that the job is not that. Teachers do a lot lot more. This is what almost teachers do. I got the picture from the facebook. Thank you to uploader. You see, as teacher, I want more. I want my pupils to get and understand what I teach. That's why, when nobody ask me to, I still do additional classes when the other teachers are on holidays. Or even though my house is far from the school , but because of you my pupils, I still come. Many teachers did this, nothing extraordinary. Then, some of us also take out and use our own money to make stuffs for you. It is not cheap, but we still do it and we do not ask anything in return, just please, concentrate on your studies. That's why when you didn't come to th...

Differences between a boy and a girl, or differences based on the way we brought up ?

Recently, in the class, I taught my pupils with a topic Innovation. We talk about various types of innovation that existed in this world. Then, I asked my pupils, according to them, what is the greatest innovation of all time? I gave an example. For me, I said that the greatest innovation of all time is the creation of paper. It is because with paper, the disperse of knowledge and information become easier. When knowledge can be brought everywhere and anywhere, people can share knowledge and thus enhance people lives. Then, each one of my pupils come up with their answers. But here comes the interesting part. There are two clever pupils in my class. I didn't mean the rest are not clever, these two are the most prominent. A girl and a boy. The girl, her father works office type of job, and been here and there. She has a facebook account and I believe quiet active in it too. The boy, grew up in the rural area, and the mother and father work a normal blue collar job. ...

Teaching Phonemes, Phonics

During KBSR, teachers teach English using a whole sound instead of segmenting it, but now, in KSSR, teachers have to teach based on letters sound, aka phonics and phonemes. For me, I think it is really hard, considering that I do not learn it that way. But, well, as teacher, you have to be adaptable, so I learn and decided to give it a try. It was really hard at the beginning, but pupils like it. Some pupils find it easier to learn. Turn out too, there are many resources to teach phonemes and phonics. Here is the website that I really recommend to learn more about phonics and phonemes. There are so many great resources. http://www.readingresource.net

Public Speaking Text

This year, I trained my pupils for Public Speaking Phase 2,  It was a great experience to me as a teacher. I still have to learn a lot, but this has added my happiness as being a teacher. Nothing is impossible as long as I work hard and sincere with it too...     Assalamualaikum and a very good morning to the honourable judges, teachers, parents and my fellow freinds.  Today, on this fine day, I would like to present a public speech about ‘the advantages and disadvantages of bringing handphone to school. It is an issue where it could be implemented soon. Before it takes place, let's look the pros and cons of this matter. Ladies and gentlemen, Handphones, mobile phones, and tablets are becoming  common in almost everywhere in our society, even now, small children have it too. Today,  It has become a must have item to everyone. Even now, If I ask the audience, whether they have a handphone,  probably almost all will say yes, isn't? Well, as f...

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...