IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO BUT THREE IS A CROWD.
Written by : Mohd. Juraimi bin Omar
Bachelor in Education (Hons) TESL
September 2009
Education is, perhaps, the most important thing in life for some. Education gives us spaces to develop. Education is learning… and teaching in a broad concept of understanding humanity and the reason for a living. Education should be able to lead learners to improve their behavior, intellectual as well as their emotion so that, by the end of the day, learners will understand the reasons of life.
Education is more than just what we have in the class. It is a process of matching the unique characteristics of an individual with the demand of fast growing world. It is a process where we cannot afford to lose. Watching my students alone are enough to make me realize how important it is to educate them, not teaching them. Teaching them will make them weaker in the future. Mark my words.
Today, teaching is more or less a spoon feeding process, especially in primary and secondary school, nothing more and nothing less. Teaching is seen as something not more than giving loads of information…and information… again and again even though the students are far away from being interested in particular subject or motivated enough to receive and digest the contents as they need the information. The situation in the class makes me think that the students are not there because they want to learn, they just want to get a scroll of academic evidence. That’s all.
Educators work so hard to facilitate the students with as much input as they can. Yes, they did. I know it. Educators are committed to their profession. Yes, they do. I have the evidence and I can be a witness on their dedication. They are extremely dedicated and passionate workers. Yes, they are. I mean it. This group of well-educated human-being contracted their soul in order for the next generation to be enlightened. Unfortunately for some, their hard work does not pay dividends. The students are stubborn as always, as they were born in jail. The parents blame the educators. They are easily pointing their finger and the educators are caught in no man’s land.
It looks like something is missing from our education system. The clearest thing that I can pick is there is no excitement at all among the most of the students. What kind of excitement do I mean? Okay. Now pick one classroom and observe. You should be ready to count. Please count how many students asking questions. Keep counting. Please count how many students do smile or nodding their head in the classroom as a sign of agreement with what the teacher says. Continue. Please count how many students who show uninterested face? You will get many of this, and please count how many students wait for their turn to get a permission to go to the toilet. To make it worst, just take a look at how they react when they hear the bell. They will explode. They will run and run to the canteen as if that is the only good thing that they will face that day and they have to appreciate it. “The things that can make the students happy are recess and Physical Education only”. One of my friends said when I did my practicum in Shah Alam. True to his words. Clearly, the students do not like to be in the class anymore. Forcing them to be in the class does not suit any positive behaviorism and humanism concepts.
To be continued…
Written by : Mohd. Juraimi bin Omar
Bachelor in Education (Hons) TESL
September 2009
Education is, perhaps, the most important thing in life for some. Education gives us spaces to develop. Education is learning… and teaching in a broad concept of understanding humanity and the reason for a living. Education should be able to lead learners to improve their behavior, intellectual as well as their emotion so that, by the end of the day, learners will understand the reasons of life.
Education is more than just what we have in the class. It is a process of matching the unique characteristics of an individual with the demand of fast growing world. It is a process where we cannot afford to lose. Watching my students alone are enough to make me realize how important it is to educate them, not teaching them. Teaching them will make them weaker in the future. Mark my words.
Today, teaching is more or less a spoon feeding process, especially in primary and secondary school, nothing more and nothing less. Teaching is seen as something not more than giving loads of information…and information… again and again even though the students are far away from being interested in particular subject or motivated enough to receive and digest the contents as they need the information. The situation in the class makes me think that the students are not there because they want to learn, they just want to get a scroll of academic evidence. That’s all.
Educators work so hard to facilitate the students with as much input as they can. Yes, they did. I know it. Educators are committed to their profession. Yes, they do. I have the evidence and I can be a witness on their dedication. They are extremely dedicated and passionate workers. Yes, they are. I mean it. This group of well-educated human-being contracted their soul in order for the next generation to be enlightened. Unfortunately for some, their hard work does not pay dividends. The students are stubborn as always, as they were born in jail. The parents blame the educators. They are easily pointing their finger and the educators are caught in no man’s land.
It looks like something is missing from our education system. The clearest thing that I can pick is there is no excitement at all among the most of the students. What kind of excitement do I mean? Okay. Now pick one classroom and observe. You should be ready to count. Please count how many students asking questions. Keep counting. Please count how many students do smile or nodding their head in the classroom as a sign of agreement with what the teacher says. Continue. Please count how many students who show uninterested face? You will get many of this, and please count how many students wait for their turn to get a permission to go to the toilet. To make it worst, just take a look at how they react when they hear the bell. They will explode. They will run and run to the canteen as if that is the only good thing that they will face that day and they have to appreciate it. “The things that can make the students happy are recess and Physical Education only”. One of my friends said when I did my practicum in Shah Alam. True to his words. Clearly, the students do not like to be in the class anymore. Forcing them to be in the class does not suit any positive behaviorism and humanism concepts.
To be continued…
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