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Good Luck!!!

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UPSR 2008

What teachers make..

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I took dis from Jeri's buletin...hmm just wanna share it wit u... The​ din​ner​ gue​sts​ wer​e sit​tin​g aro​und​ the​ tab​le dis​cus​sin​g lif​e. One​ man​, a CEO​, dec​ide​d to exp​lai​n the​ pro​ble​m wit​h edu​cat​ion​. He arg​ued​, "Wh​at'​s a kid​ goi​ng to lea​rn fro​m som​eon​e who​ dec​ide​d his​ bes​t opt​ion​ in lif​e was​ to become​ a tea​che​r?"​ He rem​ind​ed the​ oth​er din​ner​ gue​sts​ wha​t the​y say​ abo​ut tea​che​rs: ​ "Th​ose​ who​ can​, do.​ Tho​se who​ can​'t,​ tea​ch.​" To str​ess​ his​ poi​nt he sai​d to ano​the​r gue​st;​ "Yo​u'r​e a tea​che​r, Bon​nie​. Be hon​est​. Wha​t do you​ mak​e?"​ Bon ​nie​, who​ had​ a rep​uta​tio​n for hon​est​y and​ fra​nkn​ess​ rep​lie​d, "Yo​u wan​t to kno​w wha​t I mak​e? (Sh​e pau​sed​ for​ a sec​ond​, the​n beg​an.​..)​ "We​ll,​ I mak​e kid​s wor​k har​der​ tha​n the​y eve​r tho​ugh​t the​y cou​ld.​ I mak​e a C+ fee​l lik​e the​ Con​gre​ssi​ona​l Med​al of Hon​or.​ I mak...

ethic in education

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Teaching is not simply a set of technical skills for imparting knowledge to waiting students. It involves caring for children and being responsible for their future development. In other words, teachers need to think not just about the ‘ways’ by which they teach but the ‘ends’ they are teaching for. This places a heavy burden on their shoulders as educators and facilitators of their students. Mostly however, the idea of moral responsibilities for teachers is often not raised in most educational programs. Nor it is discussed when one enters the teaching field. They tend to focus on professional field – developing students’ knowledge and understanding of subject matter, equipping students with high-level skills to succeed in examinations, designing curricula and challenging students to meet the high standards in learning. Focusing attention solely on these technical aspects of teaching may ignores the moral principal of what truly is being a teacher. For example, a teacher may ...

Education in Malaysia.. what do u think?

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Malaysia ’s education system initially was adopted from the British as they occupied Malaysia during the Second World War for a time. Over the years, the system has been changed for the better. Now there are actually plans on abolishing 2 examination phases which are Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) in Year Six and the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) in Form Three . Basically the Malaysian public school system works like this. A child at the age of 7 is required to enter Primary School which is known as elementary schools in western countries where students start off as Standard 1 that similar to the grading system of western countries. Primary schools consist of Standards 1 to 6 whereby Standard 6 students would be 12 years old. Standard 6 students are required to take a final examination at the end of their term which is called the UPSR which acts like a grading system which determines their qualification upon entering Secondary Schools . UPSR was introduced on 198...

arouse students interest to write

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Rhinofish little children hve great imaganation... I like to see their creativity..this is what i did in my art class, i dont want them to just draw something, I want them to write about them..so i gave the topic "Magic Pet"... In their English class n sciences class they hav learnt about animals, the body parts of animal n also how to build sentences n description... so i asked them o imagine that they hav a magic pet.. a pet that nobody has seen.. I asked them to combine 2 or 3 animals together.. Ohhh how very creative they were... then I asked them to labels the bodyparts.. for homework, I asked them to write about their magic pets... I gave them freedom on how many sentences they want to write ohh n wat a shock that they all write atleast ten sentences...hmmm i was surprise that my year 3 students can write such dfficult sentences.. n hav to remember that these students ...