Jadi cikgu kan senang!!

Ingat lagi org2 dulu cakap, ala keje cikgu kan senang. Balik tengah hari boleh tido. Yg perempuan boleh masak, kemas rumah, jaga anak bile balik dr sekolah. Kat sekolah pulak keje mengajar je la. Apa yg susah??


Rasanye bukan org dulu je, org sekarang pon fikir camtu. Well, including me!! Huhhuuu.. Tapi bila da masuk profesion ni dan merasa sendiri jadi cikgu sandaran dulu persepsi tu terus berubah sama sekali. Ingat kan datang sekolah, masuk kelas then mengajar. Pastu abes kelas masuk bilik guru, tak pun borak2 sambil minum kat kantin.


Realitinya, cikgu ni boleh kata multipurpose la kat sekolah tu.. Contoh nya bila ada event kat sekolah mcm mesyuarat PIBG. Cikgu kene urus dari A smpai Z. Dari sebelum, semasa dan selepas hari kejadian. Cikgu kene jadi MC, kena jadi tukang hias dewan, kene pasang PA system, kene menyapu dewan, kena bungkus adiah, kene hidang makanan, kene sambut tetamu dan mcm2 kene lagi... Bila hari sukan plak, cikgu kene latih budak, kene wat garisan, kene jaga garisan, kene jadi hakim, kene hantar budak pengsan, kene itu dan kene ini.. Bila musim periksa lagi best, sbb x yah ngajar.. Tapi cikgu kene wat soalan, kene stapler kertas soalan, kene tanda plak.. Pastu kene amik markah, kene key-in markah, kene tulis kad laporan kemajuan. Skrang masuk plak bab jadi guru kelas. Hari2 kene amik attendance, kene tutup buku attendance tiap bulan, kene kutip yuran pelajar, kene kira hari budak ponteng, kene wat surat amaaran budak ponteng, kene mengadap mak bapak pelajar yg bermasalah. Kene jaga kelas plak biar bersih selalu kalo x kene sebut kat assembly kelas paling kotor..huhhuu malu cikgu kelas.. Itu belum yg ada jawatan2 penting. Kene wat akaun la, kene audit la, kene hantar budak pergi bertanding kat luar sekolah..uiii mcm2 lg...


Skarang most school blk lewat..at least pukul 2.30 ptg. Tak macam dulu, kul 1 lebih da boleh blk. Tu belum yg ada aktiviti ko-kurikulum. Dah kene blk lewat smpai ptg plak.. Kalau kene kelab yg nak masuk pertandingan ke peringkat daerah, dah kene latih plak tiap2 hari sebelum hari perlawanan. Tambah plak ari Sabtu kadang2 ada aktiviti mcm Latihan Dalam Perkhidmatan. So kene dtg wat kursus kat sekolah..


Kat dalam kelas, at least ada more than 30 students kene handle. 30 kepala, 30 kerenah dan 30 perangai.. Tu baru satu kelas, kalo ada 4 kelas..huhhuu darab je la bape kepala kene jaga. Kalo stail dgr cakap, stail budak kelas depan..fuhhh Alhamdulillah.. Tapi kalo stail ada batu dalam kepala, stail kelas hujung tanjung, memang mengucap panjaaaaaangggg la cikgu.. Dulu zaman saya sekolah, nmpak cikgu dr jauh nk masuk kelas kite dah berlari amik tempat masing2. Sekarang cikgu masuk mengajar, dia pun sibuk wat syarahan kat belakang.. Yg lagi best, cikgu menulis kat papan putih. Then bila toleh mengadap pelajar, tinggal 2 line depan je. Yang belakang haram ponteng kelas.. Belum yang merokok dlm toilet, dating bawah tangga, join budak2 kelas PJ kat padang, curi harta sekolah, toreh kereta cikgu, bertenggek kat koridor tayang muka kat junior, yg junior pompuan tawaf satu sekolah nk tayang muka kat senior.. Hmmm macam2...


Berurusan dengan manusia ni lagi mencabar berbanding berurusan dengan mesin. Marah kat mesin boleh tendang je, ni marah kat budak takkan nk terajang plak..silap2 boleh tido lokap. Tak pun naik court. Zaman skarang cikgu bukan suka2 je bleh tiau budak. Mak ayah dulu2, bile anak kene marah or pukul ngn cikgu, teruk budak tu kene bambu. Tapi skrang, cikgu plak kene bambu. Padahal anak diorang tu yg jahat, pemalas mengabehkan duit. Tapi cikgu plak yg salah sbb nk mendidik anak2 diorg yg konon nye baik sgt tu.


Silap2 haribulan cikgu bleh masuk hospital bahagia sbb stress. Dah la byk keje, tambah plak dengan perangai studen yg macam2 laa. Nak mengajar maybe senang, tapi nk mendidik jadi org..bukan sesuatu yg mudah. Tambahan plak anak2 akhir zaman ni, sgt2 menakutkan...Tu pengalaman masa jadi guru sandaran, skrang ni insyaAllah akan jadi guru tetap. So memang kene mengadap la smpai pencen, kalo panjang umor. Semoga Allah selalu mempermudahkan jalan untuk kita semua.. Dan semoga usaha guru2 dalam mendidik anak2 bangsa sentiasa diberkatiNya..


Aminnnn.....=)

Great Teacher in The Making

So what makes a great teacher?

1) Passion for teaching. This can manifest itself so many ways. I'm the "jump around the room" kind of teacher, and sure, that comes from a lot of passion, but some of the best teachers I've known have had a passion that students had to be quiet to catch onto. For me, when I was a young teacher, watching people like Maura Gouck and Marijolin DeJager teach with their quiet passion and brilliance was so important to my development as a teacher.

2) Love of kids. You laugh, but it's true! I've seen people come in and talk about teaching and talk about how much they love their subject and know about their subject, but they never mention the kids. Worse, we had an interview once where the teacher clearly knew his stuff, but he basically admitted that his classroom management style was fear and intimidation. Not who I want teaching kids I care about.

3) Love of their subject. Again... pretty important. I spent four years dropping by Mike Thayer's classroom because to watch him explain physics or calculus was, for me, to understand how you could have a passion for something that was always a mystery for me. Great teachers not only love their subject, but they love to share that joy with students.

4) Understand of the role of a school in a child's life. High school is more than the sum of the classes the kids take. It's a time to grow, explore, try on identities, find joys that might just last a lifetime. Sometimes the best teaching we do happens on basketball courts, in the halls after a class, at a local coffee shop or in a drama studio. The best teachers know that they are teachers for much more than the time they are in the physical classroom.

5) A willingness to change. This one gets overlooked sometimes, I think. I've written about this before, but it bears repeating. We talk about how schools should be transformative for kids, but I think they can be just as transformative for teachers. If you expect kids to be changed by their interaction with you, it's got to be a two-way street.

6) A work-ethic that doesn't quit. It's a hard, draining job that will demand all that you can give sometimes. You've got to be able to have some balance in your life, but there are very few teachers who can be effective by cramming everything they need to do into the hours allocated by the average teacher's contract. (And for the record, the overwhelming majority of the teachers I've met put in hours well above and beyond the contract.)

7) A willingness to reflect. You've got to be able to ask why things went the way they did... both on the good and the bad days. And you have to be able to admit when the reasons it went bad were because of what you did, not what the students did. (Equally important is the understanding that often things go right because of what the kids brought to the table, not because your lesson plan should be bronzed.) Teaching requires a willingness to cast a critical eye on your practice, your pedagogy and your self. And it can be brutal.

8) Organization. My personal Achilles heel, and one of the things I'm always working to improve. My Palm Pilot helped, really. But I hate paperwork and official looking documents, and it kills me. I am amazed at the people like Dale Lally who seem to get his papers handed back before the kids hand them in or seems to be able to put his hands on every unit he's ever taught within a moment's notice. Kids know what to expect, they know he's going to be organized and have a structure to his class... and he's still creative and spontaneous and interesting. I can only imagine how much better of a teacher I'd be if the structure of everything I did was just a little more organized. 

9) Understanding that being a "great teacher" is a constant struggle to always improve. I'm starting my eighth year as a teacher in a little over two weeks. I'm pretty proud of what I've accomplished, and I think I've had some moments of great teaching in my career so far, but I also still see all the holes in my teaching -- sadly, often times mirroring holes in my self -- and I still want to get better... because I think I've got a long way to go to be a great teacher every day. And even if I get better at everything I see as weaknesses now, I can only imagine what new challenges will face me on that day. 

10) Enough ego to survive the hard days. The tough days will leave you curled up under a desk, convinced that you can't teach or the world is too hard for these kids or the work is too much or whatever the problem was that day... you have to have enough sense of self to survive those days.

11) Enough humility to remember it's not about you. It's about the kids. If your ego rules your classroom, if the class turns into "me v. them" or if you can't understand that a sixteen year old might be able to tell you something you don't know, then don't teach. Or at least, don't teach high school.

12) A willingness to work collaboratively. Sure, there are some great teachers who close the door to their classroom and do what they want, but I think you send a strange message to the kids that way sometimes. Teachers are part of a school community, and even where that community can be flawed (and lots of schools are), a great teacher should be willing to work to make the community a better place. 



p/s :taken from, http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/8-What-makes-a-great-teacher.html

Akhil Hayy - Berita Kepada Kawan

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p/s: sangat suka lagu ni..meaningful lyrics..=)