teacher says, pupils follow

yesterday, i carried out oral test for 6c. and due to the period had ended and i still needed to finish up with these two boys, i called them to the class next door (the children of that class went to take wudhu' for their agama class).

as they could barely write and read in Malay, even more English i gave this first boy a pencil. and asked him to draw. (yes, they only copy excercises in my class and this first boy always does not bring his excercise book).

i asked him to draw a boy. 'Tak tau, teacher', he simply replied. 'A boy', and i pointed at him. the other friends next to him told him to draw a boy (in Malay). so he drew.
and asked him to also draw a girl, and a teacher. he drew, with the help of his friends translation.

i pointed to the teacher that he drew. 'Who is this? This is a..' i waited for him to finish up my sentence. he did not. his friends said, teacher. and he repeated. i pointed to the girl and the same thing happened. lastly, i pointed at the boy, with the same question. the friends said, 'Kita diam wei, biar dia sebut!' silence. 'Who is this?' i asked again. i waited for the word boy to come out from his mouth. silence. i got irritated. 'Who is this? a pondan?' i said, synically.

and he said, 'A pondan'.
we burst out.

yang terbaik untuk diriku

sebagai seorang murid dan pelajar, aku sangat tidak suka (if i use hate it would sound very mean) kepada guru-guru yang emo dan selalu naik angin pada pelajar. bukan juga aku suka pada guru yang terlalu menurut pelajar kerana aku akan jadi malas pada pelajaran yg diajar oleh guru2 yang terlalu easy on the students.
jadi bila aku jadi cekgu, aku jadi guru yang tegas tapi friendly. budak2 akan terus diam bila aku tinggikan suara ataupun aku pegi pada diorang. pengajaran berfokus dan ada masanya bila aku bagitau budak, 'today we will do activities' they would go Yeay! because this means, singing, games, quiz etc. i have to do this because of two reasons; 1) i want them to love english and 2) i want to hear them laugh and laugh with them
tapi bila budak2 naik tocang, dan menoda kesabaran aku sebagai seorang guru, aku selalu wish dan bertekad untuk menjadi seperti guru yang mereka takuti agar mereka duduk dgn tenang dan menulis di meja masing2. guru yang mengherdik sehingga aku sendiri pon takut. dan beberapa kali juga aku cuba memarahi budak mengikut cara itu. perkataan-perkataan itu tak keluar. tak dapat keluar.
biarla guru2 lain menjeling ataupun datang ke kelas aku utk marah budak bising semasa aku dalam kelas sebab ingat takdak cekgu (kemudian patah balik bila nampak aku ada) sebab aku tau apa aku buat, dan apa yg aku nak.
aku cuma mau yang terbaik untuk budak2 tu. kalaulah diorang dan MAK BAPAK diorang boleh paham.

macam tu kan teacher?

budak nie walaupun year 6 tapi pendek. pendek tapi tersangatla nakal. suka potong pemadam dalam kelas, tapi sangat responsive dalam kelas.
satu hari budak2 kena salin latihan dari papan putih utk dibuat dalam buku. kebetulan kawan depannyasedikit tinggi. disebabkan budak tinggi ini siap sudah, jadi dia pon tak berhenti bergerak. budak kecik ni pula berlumus tungkus menyalin. salin pon belom siap apatah lagi jawab soalan.
dan dia kena cepat sebab, kalau tak siap lambat la keluar rehat.. punyala dia geram kat budak tinggi tu seraya berkata dengan suara yang nyaring,
'tepila sikit kepala tu bodoh!'
terus aku mereply,
'eh, jgn cakap bodoh dalam kelas saya. sebut pandai. saya tak nak lagi dengar perkataan tu.'

5 minit selepas itu,
'tepila kepala kau tu PANDAI!'
aku terus pandang budak tu.
'macam tu kan teacher? tak boleh cakap bodoh kan?'
=))

pening

hari ni sangat la penat..mungkin beban2 kerja yang sebelom ini terkumpul dan penatnya terasa sangat hari ini. jadi takde mood nak marah udak yang saja2 tak bawa buku sebab nak attention dari cekgu, budak yang masa aku bagi penerangan dia dok angkat kerusi letas atas meja, budak yang dok jerit 'teacher, teacher! buku apa?' walaupun selepas aku bagitau 3 kali,
kali pertama: Please use your english 2, ya?
kali kedua: (mengulang instruction dalam Bm) Guna buku english 2
kali ketiga: Saya kata English 2 bukan english 1.

masuk kelas C, dan aku minta budak tulis jawapan dioarng di papan putih untuk perbincangan kelas.
'teacher, saya tak paham dia tulis apa!'
'takpe2, nanti saya tulis balik. saya tau tulisan saya cantik'

budak tu sengih2 je. aku sengih balik.

*kenapa aku cakap macam tu??

nu year's stories

friends wrote these as their status in Facebook~interesting!

felt like squeezing several Year One students today when she saw them crying, when they didn't know where to sit~Adorable! -sarah

teacher-"okay. from this information, you will do short ESSAY. you know what is ESSAY?" student- "i know teacher. AC mizal. AC di sini. sempoi......" - chacha

D kelas sblah aku t.dngar~ guru: apa living things? Pupils: bnda hdup. Guru: apa non living things? Pupils: bnda mati -zetty

had a good laugh AGAIN in class for the beginning of the year. I teach the kids to say, "Sir, I finish already" if they are done with their work and what I am getting now is, "Sir, I 'pinis' already". I wonder if they know the meaning.. :p -matno

teacher:apa azam kamu tahun nie?
murid: teacher, azam tu apa?
teacher: azam..kamu tak tahu azam? azam tu nama kawan kamu tu ha..
-jegaka

kisah kesayanganku (?)

budak2 sekolah dikehendaki mengisi borang Sistem Maklumat Murid untuk data sekolah. ada seorang budak ni, lambat hantar borang jadi dia pun dgn cuaknya bawak borang tersebut bertemu guru kelasnya. and it happened i was there, next to the class teacher.
murid: cigu, nie (sambil menyerahkan borang tersebut)
guru: (mengambil seraya menyemak borang tersebut~guru terhenti sejenak di bahagian bilangan ahli keluarga)
adik beradik kamu 10 orang?
murid: (mengangguk)
guru: ni nombor kad pengenalan bapa kamu kenapa tak isi?
(murid hanya memandang)
bapa kamu ada ic ka? mykad? ke kad pengenalan sementara?
murid: (mengangkat bahu)
guru: apa pulak tak tahu? tanya la bapa kamu. bapa kamu ada di rumah?
murid: tiada cigu.
guru: bapa kamu pegi mana?
murid: dia di rumah bininya.
guru: hah? mamak kamu bukan bininya ka? (sambil guru tersenyum kerana memikirkan murid tak paham maksud bini)
murid: dia di rumah bininya yang satu lagi.
guru: bapa kamu kawen berapa?
murid:2.

*10 adik beradik itu hanya dengan isteri pertama (ibu murid tersebut). ada lagi adik beradik dgn isteri kedua yang taktau berapa orang..

tiche,tak paham!!

'Tiche, tak paham!" that was the naughty pupils would shout when i use English in class.
So i stared at them~motionless.
Haha, like it meant anything to me?

if i dont use English in classroom, when the hell are they going to listen to English?
Good thing some of them love to imitate me, "Class, please get in line" or "Quiet, please", then there'd be an echo, "Eh, quiet please!!' Sort of teacher's assistant. And they love to assist the teacher in class. To feel and act as the authority in class ~ hey, teacher chose me, so listen!

Although i would have to repeat the instructions over and over again but it all paid off when they replied in English.
"Ok, can somebody tell me what we already learned yesterday?"- English class replacement (Who else better to replace Englishh class other than the English Head Panel herself?) Ceh!
"Me!" "Verbs!"

That itself is reawarding enough.