Friday, December 31, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Leaked OS 6.0.0.418 for the BlackBerry Bold 9700
Not so long ago we were waiting anxiously for an OS 6 leak for the Bold 9700 and now we've had quite a few to play around with. The latest comes from BBLeaks in the form of 6.0.0.418. Things seem to keep getting better as the versions go up, so give this one a go and report back in the comments and forums with your findings. Use caution when installing any OS on your device.
*OS Disclaimer - Please Read: Keep in mind this is NOT an official release and as such is not supported by RIM or your Carrier. If you choose to install, do so at your own risk and only if you're comfortable in the process of upgrading and downgrading your device software. It is quite normal during operating system development for certain features to be crippled or disabled while others are tested, and these beta builds often reflect that. They are not always better. Depending on your BlackBerry comfort level, it may be best for you to wait for community feedback on a build before deciding to download and install for yourself or simply wait for the next official release. If you require support, you will find it in our CrackBerry forumsvia our extremely knowledgeable community base - do not contact your carrier or RIM for Beta OS technical support (their first course of action will be to advise you to downgrade to a supported OS). *
Source: Crackberry Site
Monday, December 13, 2010
Narnia 3D
First time tgk movie 3D. Pening kepala tgk tp mmg pengalaman baru yang menyeronokkan. Timbul2 character kat skrin wayang.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
'Keunikan' tugas hakiki diambil kira ganti PTK
JPA akan beri penekanan pencapaian tugas individu
PUTRAJAYA: Satu sistem penilaian yang mengambil kira 'keunikan' setiap jabatan kerajaan akan diguna pakai bagi menggantikan peperiksaan Penilaian Tahap Kecekapan (PTK) yang ditamatkan mulai 1 Januari ini.Ketika PTK ditolak sesetengah kakitangan awam, sistem penilaian baru itu yang sedang dirangka oleh Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam (JPA) akan turut memberi penekanan kepada pencapaian individu dalam tugas hakikinya.Ketua Pengarah Perkhidmatan Awam, Datuk Seri Abu Bakar Abdullah, berkata pada ketika ini, PTK ‘mengukur’ kecekapan pegawai secara sama rata tanpa banyak mengambil kira jurusan hakiki masing-masing.
“Tiap-tiap jabatan ada keunikan masing-masing jadi ia tidak boleh dinilai secara sama rata, misalnya jika kakitangan berada dalam bahagian pentadbiran tidak boleh sama dengan bahagian teknikal," katanya ketika dihubungi Berita Harian.
Beliau berkata, sepatutnya PTK juga menekankan keunikan setiap jabatan itu
tetapi oleh kerana ia sudah menjadi budaya dalam perkhidmatan awam ia nampak seolah-olah diseragamkan.
Katanya, JPA diberi masa sehingga Jun depan untuk mengemukakan sistem penilaian baru itu seperti yang diumumkan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, pada pembentangan Bajet 2011 lalu.
Beliau berkata, nama kepada sistem penilaian baru itu juga belum ditentukan.
Bagaimanapun, katanya, proses kenaikan pangkat kakitangan awam antara Januari hingga Jun depan akan diteruskan dengan keutamaan masih diberikan kepada mereka yang lulus PTK yang diduduki sebelum ini.
Menjawab soalan, katanya, sistem penilaian baru itu kelak juga akan mirip kepada kriteria Petunjuk Prestasi Utama (KPI) individu tetapi enggan menjelaskan terperinci.
Walaupun sesetengah kriteria akan berfokus kepada bidang hakiki kakitangan berkaitan, beberapa subjek seperti kenegaraan akan diteruskan dalam penilaian baru itu kelak kerana ia penting untuk seseorang kakitangan kerajaan.
Pekeliling Perkhidmatan Bilangan 13/2010 yang disiarkan di laman web JPA sebelum ini menyatakan pelaksanaan PTK akan dihentikan berkuat kuasa 1 Januari ini selaras dengan pengumuman kerajaan dalam pembentangan Bajet 2011 pada Oktober lalu.
Justeru, lulus PTK bukan lagi syarat untuk kenaikan pangkat mulai 1 Januari ini.
PTK diperkenalkan dalam Sistem Saraan Malaysia (SSM) bermula 1 November 2002 bertujuan menggalakkan pembangunan diri pegawai perkhidmatan awam melalui pembelajaran berterusan, meningkatkan budaya organisasi pembelajaran dan melaksanakan pengurusan sumber manusia berasaskan kompetensi.
PTK dimantapkan pada 2005 dan dibuat pengubahsuaian pada 2008.
Bagaimanapun, peperiksaan itu menimbulkan pelbagai kontroversi kerana dikatakan ramai kakitangan terutama yang berpengalaman sukar menikmati kenaikan pangkat
Oleh Johari Ibrahim
joib@bharian.com.my
2010/12/08
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
History a must-pass subject for SPM from 2013
KUALA LUMPUR: History will be a must-pass subject in Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination from 2013 along with the Bahasa Malaysia subject, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.
With the move, students must pass the subject to be able to obtain the SPM certificate, said Muhyiddin, who is the Education Minister.
“We need to give them (students) some time to adjust. We also need time to train teachers and to prepare our students to face the new system," he said in his winding-up speech at the 2010 Umno General Assembly, here Saturday.
He also said that from 2014, history would be made a core subject in primary school under the Primary School Standard Curriculum.
He said the ministry would also make improvement to the subject, with emphasis on enhancing the understanding of the constitution so as to enlighten students about the country's nation-building process.
He also said that the implementation of the school-based assessment system, which would replace the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR), would be brought forward from 2016 to 2014 following calls for the assessment system to be expedited.
"The UPSR (Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah) examination will be retained but will undergo improvement based on current development. But we still need some time to retrain the teachers and so on," he said.
Muhyiddin said the ministry would also channel RM10mil to fund activities of Yayasan Guru Malaysia Berhad, a foundation set up to take care of the welfare of teachers.
"I've brought up this matter with the prime minister and he agrees that RM10mil be channelled to foundation," he said, adding that another foundation, Yayasan Guru Tun Hussein Onn, would be set up, also to care for the welfare of teachers.
"A total of RM200mil of fund will be channelled to the foundation," he added.
He also said that the ministry would implement the Primary School Standard Curriculum with emphasis on hands-on learning, language ability and fun learning, from next year.
The ministry also planned to increase the intake of vocational students to 81,000 students or 20% by 2015 compared to 40,706 students or 10% at the moment, he said.
"A total of RM340mil will be allocated for this purpose under the 10th Malaysia Plan (10MP)," he said, adding that four vocational schools would be built during the 10MP (2011-2015).
To enhance competency among vocational teachers, the ministry would train 4,764 teachers to achieve at least Level 3 in the Malaysian Skills Certificate from next year, he added. - Bernama
With the move, students must pass the subject to be able to obtain the SPM certificate, said Muhyiddin, who is the Education Minister.
“We need to give them (students) some time to adjust. We also need time to train teachers and to prepare our students to face the new system," he said in his winding-up speech at the 2010 Umno General Assembly, here Saturday.
He also said that from 2014, history would be made a core subject in primary school under the Primary School Standard Curriculum.
He said the ministry would also make improvement to the subject, with emphasis on enhancing the understanding of the constitution so as to enlighten students about the country's nation-building process.
He also said that the implementation of the school-based assessment system, which would replace the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR), would be brought forward from 2016 to 2014 following calls for the assessment system to be expedited.
"The UPSR (Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah) examination will be retained but will undergo improvement based on current development. But we still need some time to retrain the teachers and so on," he said.
Muhyiddin said the ministry would also channel RM10mil to fund activities of Yayasan Guru Malaysia Berhad, a foundation set up to take care of the welfare of teachers.
"I've brought up this matter with the prime minister and he agrees that RM10mil be channelled to foundation," he said, adding that another foundation, Yayasan Guru Tun Hussein Onn, would be set up, also to care for the welfare of teachers.
"A total of RM200mil of fund will be channelled to the foundation," he added.
He also said that the ministry would implement the Primary School Standard Curriculum with emphasis on hands-on learning, language ability and fun learning, from next year.
The ministry also planned to increase the intake of vocational students to 81,000 students or 20% by 2015 compared to 40,706 students or 10% at the moment, he said.
"A total of RM340mil will be allocated for this purpose under the 10th Malaysia Plan (10MP)," he said, adding that four vocational schools would be built during the 10MP (2011-2015).
To enhance competency among vocational teachers, the ministry would train 4,764 teachers to achieve at least Level 3 in the Malaysian Skills Certificate from next year, he added. - Bernama
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Confessions of a Cikgu
Teacher Talk by NITHYA SIDHHU
A senior teacher talks about how she is fast losing her enthusiasm for the job because of the ever-increasing non-teaching chores she has to take on.
IT was recently announced that a committee, headed by Education Director-General Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom, and comprising representatives from various teachers’ unions, has been directed to look into complaints by teachers on how they have been burdened with other chores instead of focusing on their primary duty — teaching.
However, it is comforting to know that the Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, has himself said that he feels that there is a basis to teachers’ concerns. He wants the committee to thrash out problems and get back to him with sound recommendations to improve the lot of teachers in the country. The deadline? Two months.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed. Teachers are looking forward to some positive and workable recommendations from the committee.
The story below is of a teacher with 27 years of experience whom I shall refer to as Tee. Tee loves sharing her knowledge with students. She even takes pride in class projects and thoroughly enjoys the interaction with her charges.
However, over the years, she has been burdened with paper work and has been constantly called to work on Saturday and dumped with more responsibilities.
Teachers are bogged down by unnecessary paper work which leaves them with little time to focus on teaching. — File photo
Such duties which can easily be carried out by a clerk, is taking a toll on Tee, 52, who is losing her enthusiasm for teaching. It will be a shame if the country has to lose dedicated teachers like her.
A steady job
Tee was born in a small town in Selangor, and is the eldest of 10 children. Tee’s father was a lorry driver and her mother, a rubber tapper. After completing her secondary school education, she decided to teach and had applied for a place in the then teacher training college (it is now known as teacher training institute).
“It had always been my ambition to be a teacher and my parents had no objections, so long as their eldest daughter had a steady job, or as they would refer to it, an ‘iron rice bowl’ job.”
However, before that materialised, she accepted a JPA (Public Services Commission) teaching scholarship at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Science and graduated with honours in 1983. She obtained a Diploma in Education from UKM the following year.
Tee started teaching in a secondary school in Karak, Pahang and had stints in Sekinchan, Sg. Pelek and Selayang all in Selangor, before she was posted to her present school in Petaling Jaya in 2004.
“When I began to teach in the eighties in small towns, students then were very simple and they respected their teachers.
They did not seek much outside help or tuition for the subjects they were weak in, as they do today.
“At that time, their only source of knowledge and solution to their problems lay in doing the homework we gave them in school.
“As such, the the teacher-student relationhip was good. I could actually chart the personal development my students made under my tutelage. We teachers were instrumental in shaping their personality and character,” she says proudly.
Tee does not mince her words when she is asked to comment on how teaching was like, more than two decades ago.
“Those days, all I had to do was to teach, guide and to get to know my students as well as I could. If there was paperwork, it was minimal.
“If you look at students today, you can see that, because of their exposure, they are more knowledgeable. They have higher expectations and demand more from their teachers. I even feel that some of them are very egotistical.”
There’s one aspect of her job that Tee feels has changed for the better — preparing and setting examination questions.
“It was a more difficult task back then, but now, with the advent of numerous workbooks, the computer and educational DVDs, the job has become so much easier.”
I ask her if she is satisfied being a teacher.Tee thinks hard before responding.
“When I first began teaching, my salary was very low but I was a happy teacher. Today, my salary is much higher, and rightfully I should be happy, but I am not.”
“The clerical work I have to do, is becoming unbearable. You see, as a Mathematics teacher, I already have a lot of preparation, planning and marking to do.
“Now, on top of that, there are many other deadlines to be met. All parties, including parents, the principal, colleagues and students have high expectations.”
As a ketua bidang (head of department), life at school is even more stressful for Tee.
She is in charge of several academic programmes and for her, the documentation and filing she has to oversee, is literally back-breaking.
At 52, and with menopausal symptoms, particularly hot flushes, plaguing her, Tee’s sentiments about school have not changed.
In fact, for the first time in her teaching career, she was stressed and worried when the new school year began in January.
“I was anxious about my work and the ever-increasing responsibilities for the entire year. Could I take all this and more for another year?” she asks with a frown.
Tee tells me of an ex-colleague who had just passed away due to breast cancer, and of another one, who was currently undergoing treatment for uterine cancer.
When Tee herself went for a mammogram recently at the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), she was startled to hear from a nurse at the Radiotherapy Department that nine out of 10 patients undergoing chemotherapy at the hospital were teachers.
“Do you think it’s caused by stress?” she asks.
I found her question disturbing to say the least. Can it be?
Blank expressions
“You know,” she tells me, “I also find myself thinking a lot about my students these days. Sometimes, when I see ‘blank expressions’ on their faces, especially from those who are academically weaker, I wonder to myself ‘Why are they here? What do they feel about having to learn something that is not relevant to their daily life?
“For some of them, Mathematics is such an alien subject that even I begin to wonder what I am doing with them. On top of that, I feel that students today have to learn too many subjects and this makes life very challenging for the weaker students.”
Tee is of the opinion that the Government should set up more vocational schools to provide living skills training to this group of students.
“At least then we can help produce our own skilled workers, rather than having to import them.”
Tee feels that these days, she is more like a clerk doing paperwork instead of spending time giving personal attention to her academically-challenged students.
“Just think. Each class has about 30 to 40 students, so to be efficient, one has to have classroom management skills too. With the type of students we have, it is no easy task managing them. Many young teachers are afraid when they have to enter a classroom.”
Tee also regrets that with her increasing workload, she has little time to mentor and guide young teachers at her school.
“These teachers lack experience badly, and I feel they need to be guided for at least a year.
“With senior teachers being bogged down with non-teaching duties, there is hardly any time to develop a young teacher’s potential, or help boost their self-confidence.
“Often, they just get thrown into the deep end of the pool and unlike us — the teachers of the older generation, who had so much more grit and resilience — this group of young teachers take a longer time to adjust and cope.”
Tee tells me that despite being graduates, many of them lack communicational skills.
“For the teaching of Science and Maths in the higher forms, young teachers simply aren’t competent in the language of instruction.
“Students then start complaining and parents start calling up the school demanding an explanation.”
Tee shakes her head. “If I’m given the choice today, I don’t think I’ll choose to be a teacher anymore. I’m not against teaching; I enjoy being with my students. In fact, I’m at my happiest when I’m in the classroom. But our job today isn’t just to teach and deal with students, is it?”
“Don’t get me wrong. In class, I still do all I can for my students. I know they view me as a stern person because I follow the rules and I mean business when I am teaching them. I’m a hardworking and responsible teacher.
“I do sometimes crack a joke or two, and we all laugh together. Sometimes I tell them stories about my difficult childhood and how I had to be like a mother to all my younger siblings — how I had to act responsibly even when I was just a teen and the amount of housework I had to do and how difficult life was for me.
“I know my students admire me for the determination I have shown through the years to make something of myself. We have a good relationship – my students and I. I am firm but kind. I even treat them with sweets and chocolates.”
Tee also shares with me what she thinks about her relationship with her students.
“Oh, without question - they are very bold, talkative and not as disciplined. They want to be treated as friends rather than as students. In class, they are quick with their comments and remarks.
“In fact, I get aggravated when my students are rude or indifferent.
“But, personally, I’m a cheerful person so I do let down my guard once in a while and have some fun with them. As a teacher, I realise that they have needs that I must meet.
“For their sake therefore, I have to be prepared mentally and emotionally, as well as be sound in my own knowledge, especially in the subject that I teach. So far, that has not been a problem with me.
“When they tell me that I’m the best Additional Mathematics teacher they’ve had, I feel truly rewarded.
“When they get good results in Maths, some of them have even hugged and thanked me for being their teacher.
“I like getting positive feedback from my students, and I must admit that I feel young because I’m always surrounded by them.
“So, you see, it’s not the teaching part I don’t like. It’s the other chores that get me down.”
I ask Tee what is the best compliment she has received as a teacher. She is wistful, but her answer moves me as it still does her.
“One of the happiest moments in my life was when a mother thanked me for helping her son to be a cheerful, confident young man.
“The mother told me that her relationship with her son had improved tremendously because of me. It felt very good that I had such an effect on someone’s life.”
Does Tee have any advice for young teachers?
“Be committed, be knowledgeable and be prepared for what you are supposed to do. Always remember that if you want your own children to be taught by good teachers, then be a good teacher to the children of others. What goes around comes around.”
On a serious note, Tee is already thinking of applying for optional retirement next year simply because of the ever-increasing non-teaching chores.
THE STAR
A senior teacher talks about how she is fast losing her enthusiasm for the job because of the ever-increasing non-teaching chores she has to take on.
IT was recently announced that a committee, headed by Education Director-General Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom, and comprising representatives from various teachers’ unions, has been directed to look into complaints by teachers on how they have been burdened with other chores instead of focusing on their primary duty — teaching.
However, it is comforting to know that the Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, has himself said that he feels that there is a basis to teachers’ concerns. He wants the committee to thrash out problems and get back to him with sound recommendations to improve the lot of teachers in the country. The deadline? Two months.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed. Teachers are looking forward to some positive and workable recommendations from the committee.
The story below is of a teacher with 27 years of experience whom I shall refer to as Tee. Tee loves sharing her knowledge with students. She even takes pride in class projects and thoroughly enjoys the interaction with her charges.
However, over the years, she has been burdened with paper work and has been constantly called to work on Saturday and dumped with more responsibilities.
Teachers are bogged down by unnecessary paper work which leaves them with little time to focus on teaching. — File photo
Such duties which can easily be carried out by a clerk, is taking a toll on Tee, 52, who is losing her enthusiasm for teaching. It will be a shame if the country has to lose dedicated teachers like her.
A steady job
Tee was born in a small town in Selangor, and is the eldest of 10 children. Tee’s father was a lorry driver and her mother, a rubber tapper. After completing her secondary school education, she decided to teach and had applied for a place in the then teacher training college (it is now known as teacher training institute).
“It had always been my ambition to be a teacher and my parents had no objections, so long as their eldest daughter had a steady job, or as they would refer to it, an ‘iron rice bowl’ job.”
However, before that materialised, she accepted a JPA (Public Services Commission) teaching scholarship at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Science and graduated with honours in 1983. She obtained a Diploma in Education from UKM the following year.
Tee started teaching in a secondary school in Karak, Pahang and had stints in Sekinchan, Sg. Pelek and Selayang all in Selangor, before she was posted to her present school in Petaling Jaya in 2004.
“When I began to teach in the eighties in small towns, students then were very simple and they respected their teachers.
They did not seek much outside help or tuition for the subjects they were weak in, as they do today.
“At that time, their only source of knowledge and solution to their problems lay in doing the homework we gave them in school.
“As such, the the teacher-student relationhip was good. I could actually chart the personal development my students made under my tutelage. We teachers were instrumental in shaping their personality and character,” she says proudly.
Tee does not mince her words when she is asked to comment on how teaching was like, more than two decades ago.
“Those days, all I had to do was to teach, guide and to get to know my students as well as I could. If there was paperwork, it was minimal.
“If you look at students today, you can see that, because of their exposure, they are more knowledgeable. They have higher expectations and demand more from their teachers. I even feel that some of them are very egotistical.”
There’s one aspect of her job that Tee feels has changed for the better — preparing and setting examination questions.
“It was a more difficult task back then, but now, with the advent of numerous workbooks, the computer and educational DVDs, the job has become so much easier.”
I ask her if she is satisfied being a teacher.Tee thinks hard before responding.
“When I first began teaching, my salary was very low but I was a happy teacher. Today, my salary is much higher, and rightfully I should be happy, but I am not.”
“The clerical work I have to do, is becoming unbearable. You see, as a Mathematics teacher, I already have a lot of preparation, planning and marking to do.
“Now, on top of that, there are many other deadlines to be met. All parties, including parents, the principal, colleagues and students have high expectations.”
As a ketua bidang (head of department), life at school is even more stressful for Tee.
She is in charge of several academic programmes and for her, the documentation and filing she has to oversee, is literally back-breaking.
At 52, and with menopausal symptoms, particularly hot flushes, plaguing her, Tee’s sentiments about school have not changed.
In fact, for the first time in her teaching career, she was stressed and worried when the new school year began in January.
“I was anxious about my work and the ever-increasing responsibilities for the entire year. Could I take all this and more for another year?” she asks with a frown.
Tee tells me of an ex-colleague who had just passed away due to breast cancer, and of another one, who was currently undergoing treatment for uterine cancer.
When Tee herself went for a mammogram recently at the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), she was startled to hear from a nurse at the Radiotherapy Department that nine out of 10 patients undergoing chemotherapy at the hospital were teachers.
“Do you think it’s caused by stress?” she asks.
I found her question disturbing to say the least. Can it be?
Blank expressions
“You know,” she tells me, “I also find myself thinking a lot about my students these days. Sometimes, when I see ‘blank expressions’ on their faces, especially from those who are academically weaker, I wonder to myself ‘Why are they here? What do they feel about having to learn something that is not relevant to their daily life?
“For some of them, Mathematics is such an alien subject that even I begin to wonder what I am doing with them. On top of that, I feel that students today have to learn too many subjects and this makes life very challenging for the weaker students.”
Tee is of the opinion that the Government should set up more vocational schools to provide living skills training to this group of students.
“At least then we can help produce our own skilled workers, rather than having to import them.”
Tee feels that these days, she is more like a clerk doing paperwork instead of spending time giving personal attention to her academically-challenged students.
“Just think. Each class has about 30 to 40 students, so to be efficient, one has to have classroom management skills too. With the type of students we have, it is no easy task managing them. Many young teachers are afraid when they have to enter a classroom.”
Tee also regrets that with her increasing workload, she has little time to mentor and guide young teachers at her school.
“These teachers lack experience badly, and I feel they need to be guided for at least a year.
“With senior teachers being bogged down with non-teaching duties, there is hardly any time to develop a young teacher’s potential, or help boost their self-confidence.
“Often, they just get thrown into the deep end of the pool and unlike us — the teachers of the older generation, who had so much more grit and resilience — this group of young teachers take a longer time to adjust and cope.”
Tee tells me that despite being graduates, many of them lack communicational skills.
“For the teaching of Science and Maths in the higher forms, young teachers simply aren’t competent in the language of instruction.
“Students then start complaining and parents start calling up the school demanding an explanation.”
Tee shakes her head. “If I’m given the choice today, I don’t think I’ll choose to be a teacher anymore. I’m not against teaching; I enjoy being with my students. In fact, I’m at my happiest when I’m in the classroom. But our job today isn’t just to teach and deal with students, is it?”
“Don’t get me wrong. In class, I still do all I can for my students. I know they view me as a stern person because I follow the rules and I mean business when I am teaching them. I’m a hardworking and responsible teacher.
“I do sometimes crack a joke or two, and we all laugh together. Sometimes I tell them stories about my difficult childhood and how I had to be like a mother to all my younger siblings — how I had to act responsibly even when I was just a teen and the amount of housework I had to do and how difficult life was for me.
“I know my students admire me for the determination I have shown through the years to make something of myself. We have a good relationship – my students and I. I am firm but kind. I even treat them with sweets and chocolates.”
Tee also shares with me what she thinks about her relationship with her students.
“Oh, without question - they are very bold, talkative and not as disciplined. They want to be treated as friends rather than as students. In class, they are quick with their comments and remarks.
“In fact, I get aggravated when my students are rude or indifferent.
“But, personally, I’m a cheerful person so I do let down my guard once in a while and have some fun with them. As a teacher, I realise that they have needs that I must meet.
“For their sake therefore, I have to be prepared mentally and emotionally, as well as be sound in my own knowledge, especially in the subject that I teach. So far, that has not been a problem with me.
“When they tell me that I’m the best Additional Mathematics teacher they’ve had, I feel truly rewarded.
“When they get good results in Maths, some of them have even hugged and thanked me for being their teacher.
“I like getting positive feedback from my students, and I must admit that I feel young because I’m always surrounded by them.
“So, you see, it’s not the teaching part I don’t like. It’s the other chores that get me down.”
I ask Tee what is the best compliment she has received as a teacher. She is wistful, but her answer moves me as it still does her.
“One of the happiest moments in my life was when a mother thanked me for helping her son to be a cheerful, confident young man.
“The mother told me that her relationship with her son had improved tremendously because of me. It felt very good that I had such an effect on someone’s life.”
Does Tee have any advice for young teachers?
“Be committed, be knowledgeable and be prepared for what you are supposed to do. Always remember that if you want your own children to be taught by good teachers, then be a good teacher to the children of others. What goes around comes around.”
On a serious note, Tee is already thinking of applying for optional retirement next year simply because of the ever-increasing non-teaching chores.
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My new tyres
Abis rm1400 tukar semua tayar..pakai tayar murah je..goodyear nct5...budget2...arghhh!
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