No Comments// Posted in conference, melta, MY-LIT by Nor Fadzleen Sa don on 06.02.10.
I’ll be attending the
19th MELTA International Conference in KL from 7-8th June 2010. The two day conference would be held at The Royale Chulan and I’ll be presenting my paper,
Utilising Web 2.0. Technologies in Teaching the New KBSM English Literature Component. In my paper, I hope to share my findings and experience on the use of Web 2.0. technologies in teaching the English Lit Component so far. To me, attending this seminar would be a good platform to learn and exchange ideas on essential issues relating to ELT in Malaysia and in other countries as well.
According to the
schedule, I’ll be presenting on the second day at 8.35 a.m. Oh my, talk about being the early bird! Oh well, hope everything will turn out well sans technical glitch. Later on at 11.30 a.m. onwards, I’ll be participating in the Teacher Showcase Event. It is a special conference event that provides English Language Education practitioners with an opportunity to showcase best practices and teaching materials that have been effectively used within one or more contexts/ classroom/ teaching-learning situations.In this context, I will be presenting and sharing
MY LIT PROJECT with the conference participants. This is the 2nd time I’m taking part and to be honest, I am participating because I believe that as a teacher, we need to share our ideas with our colleagues and students and who knows, it might be resourceful to others as well. By the way, I’ve uploaded two video presentations on
Latiff Mohidin’s In The Midst Of Hardship and
Bibsy Soenharjo’s He Had Such Quiet Eyes. It’s a Project Based Learning activity that I’ve conducted with my Form 4SN1 recently and they definitely enjoy the session very much. Do check it out!
2 Comments// Posted in award, MY-LIT, teaching by Nor Fadzleen Sa don on 05.28.10.
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| District Level Teacher’s Day celebration at SMK Taman Sutera, Johor Bahru |
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| Vibrant performance from the talented primary school students. |
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| Waiting for my turn to receive my awards. I am the recipient of the Innovative Teacher Award as well as Active Teacher Award. |
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| I received my awards from YB Tn. Hj. Md. Jais B. Sarday, Chairman of the State Youth and Sports Committee |
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| Counting my blessings for having the opportunity to be where I am now. |
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| Don’t stop learning, keep on teaching, love what you do 🙂 |
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No Comments// Posted in internationalisation programme, talk by Nor Fadzleen Sa don on 05.26.10.
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| SMANSA & SMKTU |
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| The principal a.k.a Kepala Sekolah SMANSA, Ibu Dra. Lely Suriani |
Two days ago, my school was visited by the
Sekolah Menengah Atas Negeri 1 Batam delegate from Indonesia. Widely known as SMANSA, the school is one of top schools in Indonesia that boasts on its integration of IT in education. As the Coordinator of the
Internationalisation Programme, I was given the task to set up the committee members and organise programmes for our visitors from the neighbouring country. Alhamdulillah, despite some technical glitches, everything seemed to turn out well, thanks to wonderful colleagues who helped out. The visitors were given a briefing on the HeadCount system by the principal, Hajah Zainab Bt. Ali. Then, they were shown some multimedia presentations by the ICT Unit and the school ‘s
Broadcasting Team. The team is headed by Form 2 students who represented Johor in the 2010 KWN Training Camp recently. I guess we left a lasting impression on our Indonesian guests as another batch of SMANSA teachers will be visiting our school next Monday! We plan to visit Batam hopefully by the end of this year and learn more about the school management and the Indonesian education system.
Today, I attended the Brunei International Excursion meeting organised by PPDJB at Sekolah Angkatan Tentera, JB. Two of my students were selected to go to Brunei for one week and live as sojourners with their adopted families. The excursion is scheduled from 1st August to 7th August this year. Wow, imagine that! They are indeed lucky as they are given the opportunity to experience all that at such tender age. On that note, PPDJB will also organise a training camp (5-7 June) at SIGS for all the 56 students. Have fun and hope you will share your experience with all your teachers and friends!
I’ve arrived in school just in time to conduct the
KMK Workshop with my fellow colleagues. KMK stands for
Kumpulan Meningkat Mutu Kerja where it aims to enhance the quality of services that translates to Total Customers Satisfaction. Hence, creativity and innovative ideas are inculculated to overcome any adversities faced either by teachers or students. We were fortunate that our former colleague, Mr. Norazam Abdullah, now the newly appointed PPD Counsellor (Congrats Azam!) briefed us on KMK last Saturday. Guided by his explanations and examples, I’ve assisted the teachers in constructing their proposals and managing their teams. I was glad that the teachers were attentive and responsive (despite the ad-hoc announcement) and I could say they did a brilliant job. Well done everyone!
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| Explaining the KMK framework |
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| The Language Department is planning to build a Vocabulary Enrichment Blog 🙂 |
2 Comments// Posted in humour, teaching by Nor Fadzleen Sa don on 05.23.10.
- A teacher is a multi-tasking superhero/heroine who gets the least pay.
- Disaster will occur when visitors are in the room.
- The most ill-behaved student in all of a teacher’s classes is always one of the bright ones he can’t flunk.
- A subject interesting to the teacher will bore students.
- You will be given the most tasks when you least expected it.
- The time a teacher takes in explaining is inversely proportional to the information retained by students.
- A meeting’s length will be directly proportional to the boredom the speaker produces.
- Students who are doing better are credited with working harder. If children start to do poorly, the teacher will be blamed.
- The problem child will be a PTA/PIBG member’s daughter/son.
- When the teacher is late, he will meet the principal on the way to the class.
- New students come from schools that do not teach anything.
- Good students move away.
- You will receive a letter for a one week course when you have meticulously planned a family trip to (fill in the blank with exotic location).
- Teachers who boast doing the most work in school usually work the least.
- Students forgot to bring their books on the day you are being observed by the school inspectorate.
- Clocks will run more quickly during free time.
- On a test day, at least 15% of the class will be absent.
Adapted from Murphy Laws Site
2 Comments// Posted in action research, talk, teaching by Nor Fadzleen Sa don on 05.21.10.
Event #1: Teacher’s Day Celebration
Date : 17th May 2010.
Venue : Dewan Sri Tasek, SMK Tasek Utara, Johor Bahru, Johor.
Organiser : MPPU, Prefect Board and KEBIRU SMKTU.
Of all the day, I had to be stuck in a massive traffic jam on Teacher’s Day! Due to a minor accident and road construction near Rustica BBU, I arrived just in time to belt out ‘Kami Guru Malaysia’, just my luck! By the way, I was nominated by my school to receive ‘Active Teacher Award’, an award that would be given during the Johor Bahru’s Teacher’s Day celebration. I think the main objective is to acknowledge those who prolifically contribute to the district level education programmes & activities. Ah well, I’ve handed in my form to my PK1 and I’ll just hope for the best. When I checked my pigeon hole that morning, I was surprised when I read a fax from SK Tampoi Utama, asking me to fill in the profile for ‘Innovative Teacher Award’, in conjuction with the District Level Teacher’s Day Celebration. And get this, I had to send it on the same day! Yikes! In between the manic frenzy of T-Day celebration, I had to slip out to the office to fax the form. Frankly, I was a bit disappointed that I couldn’t stay until the end of the T-Day’s celebration as I had to rush to Pontian at 1 p.m. for Event #2.
Event #2: Mesyuarat Peningkatan Akademik Bahasa Inggeris Negeri Johor.
Date : 17-19th May 2010.
Venue : Hotel Pontian, Pontian, Johor.
Organiser : YPJ and JPNJ.
I joined 71 other English Language teachers around Johor to build modules based on authentic materials. We were lucky as we were guided by experienced facilitators such as Mr. Ismail Juned, GC from SIGS, Pn. Sallina Hussain, Principal of SDARY & Chairperson of the JB English Language Panel, Pn. Vasanthi, GC from SMK Tun Habab and Mr. Zainal, GC from Segamat (sorry Zainal, I forgot the name of your school).
Although we had to endure sessions from 8 a.m. to 10.30 p.m., I can vouch for the other participants that we gained a lot of experience via the item building session and the intriguing pedagogical approaches that we could apply in our daily lessons. Meeting new friends and rekindling bonds with old friends were the highlight of the sessions as well. I’ll share with all this blog readers the materials we’ve constructed when time permits. Do watch this space!
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Event #3: PMR Talk & Writing Workshop
Date : 20th May 2010.
Venue : Language Lab, SMK Tasek Utara 2, Johor Bahru, Johor.
Organiser : English Language Panel, SMKTU 2.
The next day, I went to the neighbouring school to share my knowledge and experience with the Form Three students on PMR Answering Techniques. Since there are 6 classes altogether, I’ve conducted two sessions that stretched up to 4 hours. I’ve also conducted Writing Workshop with the students and alhamdulillah, everything turns out well. Thank you Rasheeda for your warm hospitality and patience. I was pleasantly surprised to know that Rasheeda is one of my blog readers and she was the one who nominated my name to the English Panel for this talk. I am honestly flattered and I do hope we’ll keep in touch yeah 🙂
Event #4: LDP- Talk on Blogging & My Lit Project
Date : 22th May 2010.
Venue : Computer Lab 2, SMK Tasek Utara , Johor Bahru, Johor.
Organiser : SMKTU.
Tomorrow, I’ll be sharing my latest Action Research, My Lit Project with my fellow colleagues. Then, I’ll conduct a workshop on Blogging and demonstrate how blogging can greatly maximise the learning experience. I know some might have qualms on blogging as they might think it’s a bit time consuming but honestly, I perceive blogging as a powerful tool to ignite the creative sparks and illuminate the manifold possibilities of learning paradigms.
Have a nice weekend!
