Showing posts with label Teacher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teacher. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Goodbye 2014 and Hello 2015

It's been really wild! Yes, so wild.

Despite of all the wildness, I have learnt. So much! Started of 'still grieving' of my late grandma earlier this year and I have to admit that that is the most hardest thing I have went through so far, in life! Still not easy for me now. To be honest, I have a picture of my grandma that I've pasted on my wall so I can still see her beautiful face everyday. That's not easy, somehow I make it through Alhamdulillah. Along the way, I have visited few places this year like Malacca, Penang OMG, I LOVE PENANG so much. Everything seems to be perfect over there. Someday, I would really like to stay working in Penang. I love the food, the place and above of all, I love the people. I also went to Bandung somewhere in February (if im not mistaken) and yes, I love Bandung too. It's just a little bit too crowded for me but still, love it.

My birthday party has been really memorable this year since this is my last year celebrating birthday with my beloved Austin colleagues, still it's not easy though. My friends made a video compiling my pictures with everybody and that's the best gift ever after my owl gifts and my customade Owl's cake. I cried, alot, sadly not only me have cried, almost everybody cried on that day (Lol). I have worked at Austin Heights Schools since August 2011 until July 2014 and that's almost 3 years. Of course I have been so close to my dear students and colleagues and I have loved them so much. However, due to so many problem that I have encountered with the school management, I've chose to leave. Sad! But I've got to do what I've got to do.

Moving on to Fairview, seems that it's not working out and not gonna work anyway. I've chose to come back to my previous school but they only want me back by January. Of course I cannot wait for 3 months without proper job. So I've browsed through the wholelot Johore Bahru seeking for a job. Thank goodness, Marlborough College Malaysia have accepted me! Alhamdulillah, so I started there somewhere in October. It was really fun and I have met so many wonderful people there! The only thing is I am not a teacher there. Just a teaching assistant. However, my teacher, Mihaela Marcovici is so awesome. She makes me feel wanted and always make me feel very important in the artroom. Once a while, she let me handle some art lessons. I can never thank enough to her. She is such an amazing person I have ever met. Sadly, I've changed my mind again and, I've turned to Tenby Schools at Setia Eco Gardens. It was so hard. I started to love everybody in Marlborough and to my surprise, my fellow teaching assistants make a surprise farewell party for me. It was a grande party, with helium balloons tied to the chair, sash, goodies bag with alphabet 'W' on it, dinner and wonderful gift. Of course, it was really memorable moment for me too.

Half-month ago, I have started working at Tenby! So far so effing good. I've been given a laptop for our own use (of course for the sake of the lesson!) And I am looking forward to see all the students once they come back from the holidays!

I don't have any new year's resolutions as it's never work for me! I dont mind what's my 2015 gonna be, I had enough of 2014 so bring it on!

Anyway, There are so many people I've met and there are so many people that I wanna thank to but it will be never enough to just mention them here.

With this opportunity, on the new year's eve I would like to say thank you to everybody just to let you know that I am always thankful for being given a chance to meet you and it's such an honour to have you in my life! I am not who I am today, without YOU!

Thank You & Happy New Year 2015
Wafi


Thursday, December 11, 2014

Re re re re repeat

Berat bahu memandang, berat lagi bahu memikul. Haaa, tu diahhh. Jangan memain, sekali dibaginya peribahasa perbidalan melayu lama.

Kihkihkih.

Kalau bahasa orang putih, tajuk dia "the heavier the eyes see, the heavier the shoulders hold". Kau ada?

Well, I know that it's been a while since my last post. Yes, I did promised that I will post more frequent but due to so many life changing and re-adaptability I have to settle whatever prior to me first.

So I've been telling that I am leaving Austin Heights for Fairview International School right? Well it's turn up to be un-amazing. I kinda fell sick and Ive last for a month there. The management kinda sucks too. Just like Austin Heights. So I gave up on them and I quit the job and being jobless for a month.

After a while, I've got a job at Marlborough College Malaysia. It was really amazing! And how international it is totally incomparable with the typical International Schools in JB. Their standard is way up high and very professional. I certainly have enjoyed my time there and it was the best journey of my working place so far. Even though for only two months, I've learnt like amazingly a lot.

However, I was not a teacher at Marlborough. So I kinda look up for another and I've got into Tenby Schools which located at Setia Eco Gardens, Gelang Patah. Kinda close to Marlborough too actually. And I can't event compare these two schools either. Both are almost at the same level. They are damn good and well-established schools i would say.

It took me a while to make a decision and finally I've decided to leave Marlborough for Tenby and that was the hardest decision I've ever made.

My journey at Marlborough just like no others. I have to say that I am still missing Austin Heights (obviously because of my ex-colleagues and students, not at all because of the management), and now I am gonna miss Marlborough. The kids are all amazing, even though almost 90% are foreigners (most Whites), but they've treated me like I was a part of them and I have to say that I love them so much.

And, right this moment I'm typing out this 'not-so-long' paragraph I am officially jobless but it wont be so long because I'm gonna start my work as a Teacher at Tenby next Tuesday which is like 4 more days to go. Au revoir Marlborough College Malaysia and hello Tenby.

I hope that I have made a very wise decision and wish me luck!

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Saya Suka Jadi Teacher

Kemain, tajuk terus straight to the point. Hihi. Aku nak cakap sikit la sebab dah selama setahun lima bulan jadi teacher ni, baru ni kali pertama rasa macam confident nak cakap pasal profession perguruan ni. Walaubagaimanapun, korang tolong jangan comparekan dengan cikgu gomen, cikgu gomen ada banyak sikit la benefit daripada cikgu swasta macam aku ni. Anyway, tak tahu la samada cikgu swasta lain pun sama macam aku atau sekolah aku je yang tak rasa sangat beneficialnya. Kihkihkih.

Sebenarnya jadi cikgu ni adalah pekerjaan yang paling susah yang semua orang fikir mereka boleh lakukan. Tapi ingat, walau sehandal mana pun seorang guru tu, dia pasti menghadapi pelbagai kesukaran dalam mengendalikan kelasnya. Lagipun, kerja jadi guru ni we have to deal with people with emotions. Bukan sehari dua hari, kalau kau ajar banyak year-group, mungkin makan tahun la. You deal with human being, you create and develop soul. Definitely it's really really not an easy thing to do.

Kau boleh la belajar pandai macam mana pun tapi jadi guru ni kena praktikal, perlu kerja keras dan banyak berlatih. Sekarang aku dah paham macam mana susahnya nak jadi cikgu. Baru aku rasa macam mana la cikgu aku deal dengan aku dulu. Rasa malu segan pun ada, dulu aku ni kaki gaduh ngan cikgu tau. Hahahaha. Teringat cikgu Fizik aku, Cikgu Zuliana Mat Deng kalau tak silap nama dia. Pehh, kemain anti dengan aku tu. Tak lupa cikgu agama aku masa form 4, tapi aku lupa nama dia. Kihkihkih. Sorry.

Okay, kenapa aku nak cakap jadi teacher bukan kerja mudah?

1) You have to deal with soul, emotion even though your emotions unstable. Jadi teacher bukan boleh sukati nak marah budak. Tak boleh. Kalau macam tu, kau yang ada masalah dengan diri kau sebenarnya. Contoh, kau ada masalah dekat rumah, dekat sekolah kau tak boleh nak express perasaan tu terhadap budak. Kesian budak tak bersalah tetiba teacher emo (kadang-kadang aku buat gak kihkihkih). Memang aku mengaku kadang-kadang aku pun ada bad day. Tak best kot kalau bad day, semua yang kau nak buat nanti mesti tak jadi atau salah. Tapi selalunya kalau aku bad day, aku jarang la terus marah. Tapi once ada budak spoil, terus aku jad hilang sabar. So far, takde la aku tepuk tampar budak, paling kuat pun jentik je. Hahahaha. Tapi, kalau budak buat salah, kau kena la berusaha supaya budak tu tahu yang dia buat kesalahan because every mistakes they make, there's a price that they have to pay!

2) Jadi teacher ni umpama ibu bapa kedua. Ya, ibu bapa di sekolah. You have to take care of them almost all the time from the day beginning to the end of the school session. Everything they make, if there's an incident, you have got to be responsible. Especially kalau teacher homeroom. Nasib baik aku subject teacher je. So, i dont really have to deal with the same class all the time. Kalau homeroom teacher, they have to take care of their homeroom class almost every single time. If there's an incident happen, or maybe parents complain, these homeroom teachers will have to confront the situation first. Lagi-lagi kalau homeroom teacher untuk budak Year 1 dan Year 2. I give you an example, let's say one day there's a primary students spill food on his/her shirt, then who do you think gonna take care of them? Yes, teacher. One more example, let's say there's fight between two secondary school students? Whose gonna answer to the parents if anything happen? Yes, TEACHER. Bayangkan kalau sehari ada satu insiden, sebulan? Haaaa, penat tak kau nak melayan benda-benda macam ni? Sungguh penat.

3) Kadang-kadang tak ada masa nak makan. Dekat sekolah aku, aku mengajar 15 kelas. Satu kelas 2 period, satu period ada 40 minit. Kadang-kadang kene jadi teacher-on-duty. Lepas tu duty time lunch. Haaaa, cuba cakap bila nak makan. Lepas tu tak cukup dengan duty time lunch, lepas tu kelas full sampai CCA, lepas tu kena duty jaga budak balik pulak. Haaa, berlari tak kau nak sampai ke destinasi? Memang la tak semua teacher berdedikasi sampai macam tu. Tapi aku ni memang jenis yang sangat berdedikasi kan, terpaksa la aku akur dengan semua ni. Lagi pun susun atur jadual dekat sekolah aku ni kadang-kadang disaster sikit. Ada teacher yang pernah dapat 8 period dan CCA dalam sehari. 8 period tu maksudnya takde free period langsung. Still think that being a teacher is the easiest job?

Well, it wasn't all that bad about being a teacher. To be honest, nothing's too bad unless you are the one who messed up the whole situation. Of course you will feel proud enough if at least you have a student (or more) practicing the things that you have taught. Because being a teacher is not only to teach, but to educate pupils to become an educated person in future. We as teachers, we inspire students to cope with every lesson and trust me, to get the attention from the whole class, is really not an easy thing especially when you have 20+ students in a classroom (government school usually more than 40+ in a class).

Walaubagaimanapun, tiada kerja yang mudah di dalam dunia ni. Semua profesyen ada kebaikan dan keburukan masing-masing. Yang penting, kerja tu kena datang dari hati yang ikhlas. Nawaitu kerja tu penting. Walaupun aku berhadapan dengan pelbagai rintangan dalam menangani budak2 ni, tapi aku masih bersyukur sebab aku rasa ini kerja yang aku idam-idamkan selama ini. Walaupun penat bermain dengan emosi, tekanan tempat kerja dan sebagainya, tapi bila kau tengok budak-budak yang nak belajar ni, kau rasa hilang sakit kau tu semua (lagi-lagi kalau budak yang comel, hahahahaha). Dan sampai sekarang ni, aku masih bertahan. Ni kerja aku yang paling lama kot. Sebelum ni semua kerja aku bertahan sebulan dua je. Ni je yang dah masuk tahun kedua. Alhamdulillah syukur.

Bestnya jugak jadi teacher ni, kau rule the classroom. Class management tu kau sorang je yang organize. Maksud aku, with the advice and supervision by the principal la. Tapi when it comes to delivering lesson, only you are the one dealing with it. Kalau benda tu betul, betullah ia. Jangan sampai kau deliver benda yang salah dah la. Tak de la, boss kau nak kacau kau setiap hari. Kalau kerja lain, mesti boss sibuk2 kepoh2 tanya kerja dah siap ke tak, nak tambah kerja lagi ke tak. Kepoh je.

Haa, penat gitu membebel pasal jadi teacher ni. Sebenarnya banyak lagi perkara yang aku nak cerita. Tapi penat. Berbuih dah mulut ni bercakap (walaupun tak guna mulut untuk taip benda ni).

Jadi kepada semua guru-guru di Malaysia mahupun bukan di Malaysia, saya ucapkan ribuan terima kasih kerana sanggup menggalas tugas yang paling sukar (bagi saya) di dalam dunia ini. Teruskan usaha mendidik dengan penuh amanah dan jalankan tanggungjawab dengan penuh dedikasi dan kesabaran. InsyaAllah kalau anda deliver yang baik, satu hari nanti perkara yang baik juga akan di-deliver kepada anda. Kepada yang baru nak jadi guru tu (ceh, macam dah lama je aku ni jadi cikgu, kihkihkih), jangan cepat mengalah sebab ada so many reason to make you giving up from this profession. The most important thing is you must have passion dealing with your work.

Dan akhir sekali, saya nak ucapak SELAMAT HARI GURU, HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY to all teachers in the world. You really have done a great job dealing with souls. Keep up the good work!


ps. Lupa pulak nak cakap, lagi satu yang best jadi cikgu ni sebab, banyak cuti woooooooo. Bulan2 gitu cuti dia. Hihihihi. Jangan lupa jugak ya, hari jadi aku 26th May ini (sumpah tak ada kena-mengena kan?)