Since i’ve decided to be a teacher i cant complain much. but there are a few things in my mind now that i would like to share regarding my students..
1. There are less than 60 students registered. But most of the time, less than 30 students come to school in daily basis.
2. It is normal to see 2 or 3 students in one class. If i get more than 5 students, i should be grateful.
3. My students go to school wearing their normal clothes, and will change them to school uniform when they reach the school. the reason is that some of them have to cross the river, or muddy area just to get to school. so afraid that they’ll get their uniform dirty, they wear something else first.
4. Mind you that I cant scold the students if they got their uniform dirty and wrinkled as they dont have the electricity to iron them. the teachers also sometimes wear wrinkled shirt and pants becoz the electricity couldnt support the use of iron.
5. and the students got their uniform for free every year.
6. talking about free stuff, they also got free food. the students are eligible for Rancangan Makanan Tambahan (RMT). Some teachers told me that getting RMT is one of the reason why the students come to school.
7. most of the students talk in bahasa sungai. they sometimes answered my question in bahasa sungai, and i was like “what’s tat?”. i’ve learnt a few words like “landoi” aka tadpoles etc etc.
8. but they can also speak in standard malay with sabah dialect. i was like blurred the first 2 weeks there, becoz sometimes i couldnt catch what they were saying coz they spoke really fast.
9. talking about speaking, my students can speak simple english like simple greetings. “good morning sir” “thank you sir”.
10. my year 3 students are very eager to learn english. whenever there’s no teacher in their class, they will ask me to go in and teach them more english. i loike that. that’s the readiness that i love to see.
11. plus, they are very cute and funny…
12. they even ask for homeworks, altho sometimes they forgot to do it!
13. My year 5 students are good. They know lots of english vocab but they are too shy to use the language.
14. they can answer simple comprehension questions, but not the grammar part. so i knw their weaknesses and now im thinking of a plan to solve that.
15. im having more hard time dealing with my year 6 students.
16. they couldnt be bothered about UPSR.. they dont even know what it is all about…
17. there’s only 1 student in Year 6 come to school in daily basis.
18. All of them got less than 25% for their English paper in the 1st Monthly test.
19. The reason: they simply dont understand the questions since they have limited english vocab.
20. Even for questions with pictures, they answered them wrongly. eg. the picture shows a lorry, but they answered them ‘car’.
21. For the time being, i teach them vocab based on the topic so that they are familiar with the words.
22. and rote learning is the best option i got so far.
23. one funny thing about them is that in Paper 2, they have to write simple sentences based on the pictures given. I laughed my ass off reading their sentences as they wrote them in Bahasa whereas they knew that they were answering English paper. and i gave them a big ‘?’.
24. im using both english and bahasa as the medium of instructions. i would give them instruction in english. simplify them. wrote the instruction on the board. demonstrate and the last resort wud be translating them to malay. i know it takes a lot of time, but i have to do that so that they will know i wont simply use bahasa. and they will have to work hard.
25. Im still using the smiley and sad faces on the board. they seems to like it very much coz i promised them gifts if they behave the way i want them to.
26. they love ICT. So, at least once in a week i would bring them to ICT lab to use the coursewares. they love them very much.
27. last but not the least, at 2pm sharp, at least 5 students will come to our house to watch the tele. it’s normal routine! they love watching the sinetron featuring agnes monica (im not sure of the title). sometimes they watch the dvds. altho they have watched them million times, but they keep on playing them over and over again. they love to watch ‘apocalypto’. i overheard their conversation, translated into proper bm “aku suka la tengok cite orang asli ni” and one of them replied “kau sedar la sikit, ko tu pon sama”. and i was like LMAO and then continued with my nap!
p/s: love all of your students. if they feel your love, u’ll be embraced with their love too. attend to all and never practise favouritism. stop racism, stop favouritism!
lagipon dh lama tak tuka wallpaper baru. so, aku edit la the only pic of my car dalam simpanan aku. pastu jadik la wallpaper nih. and what i like about the wallpaper is that, die nampak cool dr dekat maopon jauh.. tak sakit mata la pendek kata. plus, sah2 la ilang rindu aku kat kete aku tuhhh.. and usually aku mmg akan letak aku nye blog add kat each wallpaper yg aku buat. so this one pon tak ketinggalan. just aku nye style kot. takde niat nk promote blog sendirik pon.. 
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tp dlm hati… hahaha
