Perkhemahan Akademik Fasa 3 SABK Madrasah Alattas Alarabiah Johor

PERKAMPUNGAN AKADEMIK FASA 3

Tarikh/Hari     : 31 Julai – 1 Ogos 2019 (Rabu – Khamis)

Tempat    : La Grandeur Palm Resort, Senai

Peserta: 111 pelajar (tingkatan 3, 5 dan 6); 20 orang guru dan seorang pensyarah UTM (Dr Hadijah Jaffri)

Perkampungan Akademik Fasa 3 merupakan progam pengayaan pencapaian akademik bagi pelajar yang bakal menduduki peperiksaan awam seperti PT3 – Tingkatan 3, SPM – Tingkatan 5, STAM dan MUET – Tingkatan 6. Para pelajar yang bakal menduduki peperiksaan Pentaksiran Tingkatan 3 (PT3), Sijil Peperiksaan Malaysia (SPM), Sijil Tinggi Agama Malaysia (STAM) dan Malaysian University English Test (MUET) di Sekolah Agama Bantuan Kerajaan Madrasah Alattas Alarabiah memerlukan persiapan rapi bagi menghadapi peperiksaan awam.  Perkampungan Akademik Fasa 3 merupakan program pengayaan yang melibatkan kesemua pelajar yang menduduki peperiksaan awam Malaysia seperti PT3, SPM, STAM dan MUET.

Di dalam perkampungan akademik tersebut, pelajar akan didedahkan dengan tips yang boleh diaplikasikan bagi memastikan mereka mendapat keputusan yang cemerlang, terutama bagi pelajar Tingkatan 5 dan 6 bagi tujuan permohonan kemasukan ke pusat asasi atau matrikulasi di Malaysia (bagi pelajar Tingkatan 5) dan bagi tujuan permohonan melanjutkan pelajaran ke institusi pengajian tinggi awam tempatan mahupun luar negara bagi pelajar Tingkatan 6. Ini adalah kerana pencapaian mereka perlulah menepati syarat kemasukan ke pusat asasi atau matrikulasi atau institusi pengajian tinggi.

Pelajar tingkatan 5 sedang tekun menjawab soalan dalam lembaran latihan yang diberikan
Cik Rafedah Mohd Rais kelihatan bersemangat menerangkan tips peperiksaan bagi kertas perdagangan kepada calon SPM
Cik Aalia Abdul Rashid sedang menerangkan arahan tentang aktiviti dalam kumpulan kepada sekumpulan pelajar
Ustazah Noadha Asma’ Shafie menerangkan format peperiksaan Syariah PT3
Dr Hadijah Jaffri sedang memantau pelajar yang sedang menjawab soalan kertas Kefahaman (Reading) – MUET
Pelajar bekerja dalam kumpulan dalam menghasilkan rumusan novel Captain Nobody
Antara komen pelajar
Antara komen pelajar

Dana Pembangunan Sekolah Agama UTM

Sekolah Agama UTM sudah ditutup dan tidak beroperasi sepenuhnya sejak Disember 2018. Ini kerana keadaan bangunannya yang sudah uzur dan tidak selamat untuk diduduki. Namun begitu, melihat kepada kepentingan institusi ini dalam memartabatkan pendidikan agama, pembentukan akidah, ibadah dan akhlak, serta sebagai kebajikan dan kemudahan warga UTM, UTM telah berhasrat untuk membangunkan Sekolah Agama di UTM yang baharu, di mana ianya lebih kondusif, selamat dan selesa bagi para guru dan pelajarnya.

Sebanyak RM 6.5 juta diperlukan bagi memastikan pembinaan institusi ini dapat direalisasikan dengan jayanya.

Untuk makluman, sebanyak RM 1.5 juta telah berjaya dikumpulkan sehingga hari ini hasil daripada sumbangan orang ramai. Oleh itu, pihak kami masih lagi memerlukan sumbangan sebanyak RM 5 juta.

Besar harapan kami sekiranya seluruh warga UTM dapat menghulurkan sumbangan bagi dana pembangunan ini. Sumbangan ikhlas anda boleh disalurkan melalui kaedah berikut :

  1. Tunai di Pusat Islam UTM
  2. Cek atas nama Bendahari UTM dan dihantar ke Pusat Islam UTM
  3. Potongan gaji bulanan (khas untuk staf UTM)
  4. Pindahan ke akaun bank UTM (CIMB 8006053536)
  5. Bayaran secara online melalui ecommerce.utm.my/ecommerce
  6. Pada menu utama, klik payment
  7. Di bahagian carian, taip Tabung Pembangunan Sekolah Agama UTM

*Bagi kaedah bayaran no 4 & 5, sila emelkan nama, no.tel, no kad pengenalan serta butiran transaksi ke islamiccentre@utm.my atau boleh dihantar terus ke Pusat Islam UTM.

Semoga dengan sumbangan yang diberikan, ianya menjadi satu jariah yang akan sentiasa mengalir selama bangunan sekolah tersebut digunakan dan menjadi saham akhirat buat penyumbangnya. InsyaAllah.

***Sebarang maklumat lanjut, sila hubungi 07-5537512 / 37529.

Teachers fork out own funds for lessons

When I did my Latihan Ikhtisas, it was quite common for me to buy my own teaching materials and stationery that I needed for class activities like mahjung paper, permanent markers, coloured papers, motivation stickers, stationery like pen, pencil etc. that I used as a reward, and not forgetting chocolates that I always have in stock as an instant reward.

Fortunately, even though I was undergoing my Latihan Ikhtisas, yet my monthly salary was still the same (minus no allowance given for Latihan Ikhtisas).  So, I didn’t feel the pinch when I had to spend on such things.  But things might be different for those who are undergoing their teaching practicum (undergraduate students).    A news article wrote about this issue.  You may find the article HERE.

UTM code of ethics

I was asked my one of my senior colleagues to fill in a questionnaire in relation to teaching, supervision, research and publication.  There are 10 questions asked.  The questions are

  1. Do you know that UTM has code of professional ethics?  (you to answer either YES or NO)
  2. Have you read the UTM code of ethics?  (you to answer either YES or NO)
  3. Do you know what are the UTM code of ethics?  (you to answer either YES or NO)
  4. Do you think that you are an ethical staff by UTM standard or by your own standard?  (you to answer either YES or NO)
  5. Are you able to define what is “being professional” in your job? (you to answer either YES or NO)
  6. Please give 3 examples to prove that you bring ethics into your work
  7. Another 3 examples that you think you are not ethical in your work
  8. State a few example of your colleagues’ behaviour which you think is ethical and professional
  9. Please describe incidents or events of your colleagues which you think are not ethical and/or not professional in their work

What are my answers?   I already gave to the committee.  I don’t know the findings of this survey though.

There are news articles about Prof Wahid Omar’s thoughts about issues relating to academic integrity in reference to Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz’s claim about Malaysian academicians’ integrity which causes uproar among concerned Malaysian citizens and alike.  You can read one of the news articles HERE.

In addition, HERE is the UTM code of ethics [Just in case, some of you are searching for it]

How to write teaching philosophy for TESDCP?

There are no specific rules to write your teaching philosophy.  After all, it is YOUR teaching philosophy.  It is yours.  If you have certain philosophy, ideology or belief, it is technically “none-of-other-people-business” right to judge you.  After all, we are different individuals and thus, our beliefs are uniquely our own.  This is the common assumption.

But, if our teaching philosophy in TESDCP will be evaluated by some people in our school and faculty, it means that the assessors will use “certain” rubric to evaluate our teaching philosophy.  Isn’t it so?   So, in that sense there will be different hierarchy or rating for our teaching philosophy, right?   What should we do then?

This makes me think about how to write my teaching philosophy.  One of the common tips that I find from the internet about writing a teaching philosophy is to write it from heart (and soul).  I have written mine few weeks ago after I attended the TES workshop in late June.

But after a while, I start to think about the best example of teaching philosophy and its criteria.   It is not that I think too much about how I will be evaluated but rather, I want to see how my current teaching philosophy has the essential elements of a good teaching philosophy because being a non-native speaker of English, I might not be able to write my teaching philosophy proficiently  as what I might have originally intended.

I discussed this with my colleague, Dr Narina.  She also has similar thoughts on this.  So, as we tried to find any guideline on how to write a teaching philosophy from UTM website but to no avail, she came across a guideline given by other universities instead.  One of the straight-forward guideline is by Iowa State University.  She shares this with me.   [Psstt… you can also watch a video from Youtube.   HERE is the link]

Basically, Iowa State University Centre of Teaching and Learning states 4 core ideas about teaching philosophy.  The 4 core ideas are

  1. What are your objectives as a teacher?
  2. How will you achieve those objectives?
  3. How will you measure your teaching effectiveness?
  4. Why?

If some of you are still wondering on how to write your teaching philosophy, you can use the 4 core ideas as a guideline of your writing.   I know some of you might say that we are UTM academicians, not Iowa State University, but I think as a start, we can use the 4 core ideas just to guide our thoughts.  At least, we have “substance” in our writing.  Better yet, we can sub-divide our teaching philosophy into 4 divisions: objectives, ways to achieve those objective, measure of teaching effectiveness and personal reasons of choosing the career as an academician i.e. teaching line of profession. 😀

So, all the best in preparing our TESDCP!   We have few more days  before the deadline (15 August 2019 is the deadline for submission)

Disclaimer: This is what my friend shares with me that I want to share with others.   I hope that it would benefit some of us in writing our teaching philosophy.

Spring clean_Part 1

One of my least favorite things to do during long semester break is to “dispose” old assignments and whatsnot.  Sometimes, I do not know how long I should keep it.  But based on my rule of thumb: If the students have already graduated, I can dispose their assignments.  I found some assignments dated back in 2014/2015.  I notice that majority of the students had already graduated.  But there are some in their final year (for the UG) so I still need to keep theirs though.

I also found old timetables that Prof Bahar had signed.  Looking at these timetables makes me sad.  Al-fatihah to Prof Bahar.


Break a leg

Wishing all the best to individuals who have to perform in something might improve their performance.  This has been proven in research such as “Keep your fingers crossed” which has shown “activating good-luck-related superstitions via a common saying or action such as break a leg, or a lucky charm improves subsequent performance in golfing, motor dexterity, memory and anagram games”

But this does not mean the performers should prepare less for any competition or task though.  Relying on luck with lackluster efforts won’t result in high performance.  There is nothing wrong in dreaming, hoping or wishing but we have to take reality into consideration.  We have to face life’s challenges head-on, not to put our heads on sand like ostriches thinking the challenges, harm or whatever will go away or pass by without us doing nothing about it.