Menggubal silibus untuk memandaikan atau mendiskriminasi?

Ya kepada penggubal silibus dan dasar (rujukan: https://ragamanak.com/silibus-persekolahan-kini-di-luar-kemampuan-usia-prof-madya-dr-rafidah-hanim/)  .... sedih...

 

Teringat ....... saya pernah menjadi penggubal silibus di universiti tempat saya bekerja... jujur saya katakan, pertama kali menjadi penggubal memang rasa mcm kita ni sudah cukup hebat sampai ingin menambahkan segala mcm yg kita rasakan perlu dimasukkan dalam silibus.... tetapi bila nak laksanakan, ya Allah, rasa mcm byk benda yg kita kena belajar sblm kita mengajar... sehinggakan kita skip silibus dan melepaskan kpd pelajar2 sendiri...

Bila buat soalan exam, Ada di antara rakan2 sy yg nak tny mcm2 soalan yg tak perlu pun.... terutamanya soalan yg memerlukan pengafalan yg tak patut... contohnya "pada tahun brpkah komputer dicipta?" Walaupun jawapannya ada dalam buku teks....

Jadi, kita perlu sebenarnya membuat silibus yg mengambil kira bagaimana cara utk kita mengajar supaya pelajar2 mudah faham.... bukan buat silibus yg mana terlalu byk isinya tetapi pelajar2 yg perlu menghafal tanpa bimbingan cikgu utk memahamkan isi kandungannya....

Ingat... kita mengajar dan mendidik untuk memandaikan generasi kita bkn hendak mengukur dan mendiskriminasi yg cerdik dan kurang cerdik....

Sedikit perkongsian lain.... di sini (perantuan), anak2 saya diajar / dilatih / digalakkan bercakap... contohnya, setiap kali lawatan ke mana2, anak2 diberi tugasan menceritakan kembali apa yg mereka lihat/perhatikan semasa lawatan tersebut... tetapi, cikgu mereka yg terangkan dahulu apa yg berlaku atau apa yg diperhatikan dan sejarah di sebalik tempat lawatan tersebut...

Tau2, sampai rumah anak2 yg sibuk panggil kami, mak ayah, utk mendengar cerita hasil lawatan tersebut.... lantaran mereka menceritakan dgn penuh emosi dan vocabulary yg kami sendiri belum pernah dgr....

Wallahualam...

My children can speak English very well as compared to my wife and I

 

Wow this is something brilliant!

How they become like that?

They go to the school, where there are mixed culture, Indian, Arabic, Mexican, English and so on, but until now, we do not know whether there is any Malaysian there. My kids speak English with their friends, teachers as well as my wife and I, even though me and my wife speak malay but they reply in English. What a shock.

Here is my assumption based on my observation. They spend most of the time at school where they need to socialize and speak in English. Once they arrive at home, they tell us their story about what they have done for the whole day, in English. I think it’s because they are comfortable to tell us the story in English, because they use the language most of the time at school rather than speak Malay at home with us. In short, they speak English more than Malay for one day.

When they feel bored, they watch tv, cartoons.. where all the programs in tv are in English. Then, once again, they watch, listen, and communicate (I mean there are 2 way communication programs like CBBies channel, they communicate with the audience) with the tv programs in English. Then, once the programs end, and when they spend some times with my wife and I, they once again, speak the language. These are all because the influence of the environment where they live. They spend a lot of time, listen and watch English program…..

As a result, they are comfortable to speak English more than Malay. In fact, when they wake up in the early morning, or when they wake up at night, the first language that come out of their mouth is English. Oh my…… whether this is a positive or negative, I am not sure….

 

Disclaimer: Please accept my apology on the grammar mistakes as I am not a native speaker. I write based on what I know/understand with little knowledge on grammar. However, any comments for improvement are welcome.

 

My kids’ achievement

Written on 14 February 2017

After 5 months in UK, we, as parents, were invited to our kids’ school for an “open evening”. It’s a time where parents meet the teachers to discuss on our kids’ performance at school. I just wanted to share our experience here but seems of comparing between our experience in here and in our home country. Of course, I am not comparing but there is pro and cons for both systems. Please read this with your open heart. Think rationally, try to accept and improve whatever we can.

What we can say is that this is such a great day where we can talk personally to our kids’ teachers, we can ask them how were our kids at school all this while. Do they behave? Can they socialize with other kids? How do they communicate with their friends and so on. Besides, we can ask their performance in the academic as well.

In here, we were told about our kids’ performance basically on their ability to adapt, socialize, communicate, act towards instructions given as well as their academic. Apparently, the academic is not really emphasized but we were given feedback on their maths and literacy works. The report was really comparing between the kids themselves not with other kids. We were told how’s their improvement based on the first day our kids came into the class until today, and not comparing between their marks and other kids’ marks. No ranking at all for our kids. I mean no ranking in the class or ranking in the school itself. It’s more like how they improved since they joint the class.

Talking about time, we need to book a time slot for our meeting, thus, we don’t have to waste our time to queue up in front of the class. We just come at the time booked, and wait for only a few minutes. This is because, each slot is allocated 10 minutes for parents to discuss with the teacher. By the way, in here, most of the schools starts at 8.50 am and ends at 3.15 pm. The open evening is after the school time, from 3.30 pm until 6.30 pm. Then, as usual, kids are going to the school and learn during the day. No interruption on the teaching and learning process.

In contrast, last year in our home country, we did experience the same event, I don’t remember what we call it but of course, it is a day where we go to the school and meet the teachers to discuss on our kids’ performance. In here, we did not have to book the time slot but we had a freedom to come at any time on that day during the school time. Once we arrived, we had to queue before we can meet the teacher. Unfortunately, we had to wait for two parents of two students in that class. Here, I felt uncomfortable because it was hot waiting outside the class and it was just waste of the time. As people know, including my students, I hate waiting of something. I really manage my time wisely, I don’t like “lepak” in mamak stall or anywhere. I love doing things or discussing on something informative.

Back to the point, once we’ve got the chance meeting the teacher, we were shown the performance sheet of our daughter, it is a result (in terms of marks of every subject taken). We were discussing on where our daughter did well and where she did not. It’s mainly based on the paper. The teacher tried to explain what we can do to help our daughter to improve her bad result. “Do more exercises at home” especially maths and Bahasa…. I felt like…. Oh my… is this the education that we wanted to? Doing a lot of exercises can make you perform better? In marks point of view I think yes, it is. But, in terms of education, there are loopholes that we could improve. I am not condemning my education system but I am criticizing just to give some inputs that could improve my lovely country’s education system. At the same time, I am not saying that UK education system is the best, but like I said, I just want to give some inputs that could contribute to our better education.  

For me, it’s not the marks that make you a better person or a successful person but the education should be able to educate people by instilling good deeds. It should also be able to develop the human’s attitude. Most people believe that parents are the best people to educate their kids. This statement is true for some reasons but is not really true for some other reasons.