匆匆的四月

匆匆，
四月中旬。
日复一日，夜复一夜，
学校，学生，作业，家长
堆积如山的文件。

匆匆，
四月中旬。
家人，朋友，自己，不小心忽略了！
披头散发，脸青唇白
热诚仿佛再渐渐的被磨灭？

匆匆，
四月中旬。
心中的问号渐渐膨胀？
究竟在这里是不是对的选择？

匆匆，
四月中旬。
累，怨言
都沉没在那一双双对学习的渴望的眼神；
都被解决一堆堆数学题后，露出那腼腆带自信的笑容给掩盖！

打起精神，那一份相信。 小小的改变！
继续冲刺！

披上老师之袍- 校园生活的点点滴滴

同事画了一份非常漂亮又充满讯息的自我简述表，今天我决定在公民课内用，让学生填写。

有趣的是在小小的照片框框里，发生了这样的事。 在没有预兆的情况下，小瓜拿钱包出来，翻一翻.........拿起了护照近照。起初还以为他要粘在纸上........结果是

在一旁的我没说什么只是微笑的看着他努力的在跟着护照照片画着自己。 那认真的表情，努力一笔一笔的画着，认真的回答每一题问题，看了蛮窝心!

在和堆积如山的文件赛跑的同时，课室里的小插曲，学生小小的举动，会让疲惫的思绪暂时远离。

就这样又到了开学第二个星期的周末！

Simple words that warm my heart.

'Cikgu, cikgu bolehkah cikgu datang rumah saya  pada hari deepavali' Student X asked

'Terima kasih , X  tapi cikgu tak ada di sini pada hari Deepavali. ' I said

'Cikgu boleh datang pada hari lain, Khamis Jumaat pun boleh'

'Ok, tapi cikgu hanya akan balik sini hari Ahad!'

Kalau macam tu, Cikgu datang Ahad . Nanti saya bagi cikgu nombor Bapa saya.
Cikgu, alamat rumah saya tulis dan bagi cikgu esok .

The next day, she put a piece of paper with her address on my table .

I met her again in corridor and she said

"Cikgu, cikgu mesti datang rumah saya, bila bila masa ,pagi ,petang pun boleh. Cikgu call bapa saya bagi tau masa .

'Cikgu mesti datang !' Student X said with excited voice.

That was my Friday conversation with her before the kick start of the long Deepavali holiday.

On that Sunday , my colleague and i visited the girl and her family. It is really a wonderful experience. The parents are so friendly and i have a good conversation with the parents about their kids and get to know more about their background.

What warm my heart was when the girl said

'Cikgu , saya suka sejarah , sebab  kelas sejarah seronok. Cikgu, hari itu saya pergi Port Dickson dan pergi museum. Saya nampak  mata wang yang berbentuk haiwan yang cikgu pernah ajar dan tunjuk gambar di kelas.'

Just a simple and casual words but my heart feel so warm when she said that because all this while i feel like a fail history teacher because i keep try and error,feel like not teaching history properly.

Anyway, i really glad that she can connect what she learnt in the class with the life and what she see.

I don't know how other students think , i know there is so much room for improvement in my teaching.

Teaching at the same time gave me opportunity to learn a lot. I learnt so much from people around me  and students. Teaching is not only pedagogy, it involves so much emotions, love, firm , patience ,  relationship building and understanding others, consistency and even playing psychology tricks.......!  So much and it is one of the lively job.

The simple words from the girl really motivate me a lot to continue stay in this path as a teacher.

Activities in the classroom 课室里的点点滴滴 !

时间飞逝的很快，在新学校教书已接近两个月了，忙，是近来对我最贴切的形容词，但我却非常乐在其中！我很清楚知道我很喜欢教书，和学生们互动！虽然不同的环境，有不同的挑战，但在那么多人，事，物的支持与鼓励下，我相信挑战是可以被一一克服的！

以下只是这两个月在课室的一些小活动！

当然我并非每堂课都是这样，当然也有不太顺利，也有非常传统的教学方式！

活动一： 闭上眼睛幻想！

我在历史课时，由于天气太热，加上刚刚休息节，学生都特别的活跃，为了让学生“Cool down” ，我让他们闭上眼睛，然后，让他们听我的声音，根据我所说的东西，然后用想象力去想象!(这堂课我让他们想象他们自己乘上了时光机，带他们回到过去，他们去了三个时代；我融合每个时代的一个特点，让他们去想象）

                             
   这活动大概5分钟左右，太久学生会不小心睡着！不过这活动后，学生都能静下来听课！

We are learning "Zaman Prasejarah di Malaysia". It was a hot day and my lesson was right after the recess, so the students are  super active after the meal, so I started my lesson with the "imagine"activity. I asked them to close their eyes and imagine about the different era according to how i described. This activity turns them into silent and switch on their prepare mode in learning the new chapter. ( This activity cannot exceed 5 minutes, or else students may fall to sleep)   

活动二： 设计手册

为了让学生能结合创意，历史，和笔记！我决定让他们设计属于他们的手册。我称这个手册为“Risalah Zaman Prasejarah"! 我发现尤其是后段班的学生都很爱涂涂画画！所以大部分都可以完成这手册！ 

（这活动满耗时，用了两节的时间；不过看得出学生很喜欢）

Students especially those from weaker class will engage in the lesson  well when the lesson involves them to use their hand to do something. They enjoyed drawing, colouring their own pamphlet.    

Phamplet on "Zaman Pra-sejarah" designed by one of the students!  

"Risalah Zaman Prasejarah " that contains important notes about the three Pre-historical era in Malaysia. 

 

Students are creating their pamphlet on "Zaman Paleolitik , Neolitik and Logam" . This activity integrates students creativity, art into history. This also makes the history notes do not look dull and boring !   

活动三： 小纸条！

由于我还无法一一记得所有学生的名字，所有就开始这小纸条活动， 我让学生把名字，生日日期及爱看的电影或节目卸载小纸条上，然后收集在小罐子里！那我就可以抽签的方式叫某位学生来回答！（有时会以生日日期，或电影）

Because i still can't remember all my students name, so i decided to ask them to write their name, birthday and favorite movie/show on a piece of colour paper  and keep it in a small container. I will randomly draw a name or based on birthday or even favorite movie to call a student to answer the question.      

Here is the containers, now i only manage to do it with 4 classes, there are still two more classes i haven't start this yet! 

活动四：

我让学生分成四个人一组，然后每组得到一张白纸，我给两个问题，学生回答并把答案写在纸上！然后，可以设计各自的答案纸，完成后将答案纸贴在墙上！

过后，我让每一组在一分钟里去找其他组的错误,然后圈出错误的地方，目的是要让他们能去找出他人的错出，并从错误中学习！                                      

Students are divided into 4 people per group. They need to answer two mathematics questions and write down the solution on a piece of paper, they can decorate the paper according to their preference. After that, they need to paste the paper on the notice board.   

Students' works

Peer checking- Each group will have one minute to check other group answer, they are required to circle out the mistake in our group! (The aim of the activity is using the peer checking and also encourage students to learn by identifying the mistake)  

活动五：
我用不同的形状来让学生学习分数！其中一个活动是把正确的形状贴在对的分数上！用时间限制会让他们更快完成任务!

Using different shapes in teaching fraction. One of the activities involves is match the fraction and paste it on the correct column on white board. (adding time limit will push them to finish the task faster)  

活动六：跑站游戏

我把学生分成九组，共有九个站。每组会在一个站，每个站有特定的数学题目，学生必须在两分钟内解答数学题，听到闹钟响，就必须顺时钟往下一个站！所得到的答案必须写在所给的纸上，结束后交给我改（如果有时间，就好当天讨论所有的答案）

This is a station games concept. Students divided into group of four, there are nine stations in total. Students are given two minutes in tackling the questions in each station. Once the alarm ring, they  need to move to another station(clockwise) and start to work on another questions in the stations.

                                     

Students are discussing about the question in one of the stations.