{"id":2020,"date":"2019-07-01T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T07:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2019-07-02T09:18:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T01:18:04","slug":"utmconfession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/utmconfession\/","title":{"rendered":"UTMconfession"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know about its existence last year (2018) when I did my Latihan Ikhtisas.\u00a0<\/a> I have no issue about its existence and whatever posts that people write.\u00a0 A similar kind of blog such as IIUMconfession has existed few years back earlier.\u00a0 For IIUMconfession, most of the times, the students or former students of IIUM would write about their experience learning and studying at IIUM.\u00a0 When they talk about former lecturers, even though some of the lecturers are well-known as “killer lecturers”, they would write something positive about those killer lecturers.\u00a0 They talk about the values they learn from them.\u00a0 [Note:<\/strong> There are also non-IIUM students or former students who post their thoughts at IIUMconfession \ud83d\ude00 ]<\/span><\/p>\n

UTMconfession?\u00a0 It is totally a different game.\u00a0 Some might say that I am bias because I didn’t graduate from UTM.\u00a0 But the way I see it, UTMconfession has become a place where students defame, malign, slander (you name it) either the university where they go or went to study i.e. UTM or the people who teach or taught them or anyone that they have encountered for various purposes.\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong.\u00a0 There are some positive uplifting posts by various individuals (who are mostly students or former students) too.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not saying that one could or should not give bad comments on the institution i.e. UTM or its staff (academics or non-academics), but from the way I see it, majority of the bad comments are baseless.\u00a0 Only few can be considered as genuine cases that worth to be taken into consideration.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, if you get failing marks, rather than just go straight away to “attack” the person who teaches you, please have self-reflection first.\u00a0 Why do you get such marks on a first place?\u00a0<\/strong> Most of the time (99.9%) it is due to students’ effort.\u00a0 As university students, it is not about judging how other people teach you, but rather judging how you learn from this person who teaches you.\u00a0 Capisce?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You might say that “Well, even though he\/she has a PhD, but still he\/she is a lousy lecturer<\/em>“.\u00a0 I do admit that some of my colleagues might not emphasize on their teaching, rather than research but they are the “minuscule organism” at this university.\u00a0 Majority of us are passionate educators.\u00a0 Every semester during semester break especially, some of us attend workshops\/training etc. to improve our teaching strategies.\u00a0 Some of us take the effort to change or adjust certain things that we normally do in class.\u00a0 To have a fresher style, we go extra miles to keep ourselves updated with the latest development in teaching and learning.\u00a0 All of these take efforts and time.\u00a0 Students don’t see the behind-the-scene things.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Do they know that we have to juggle with so many things other than teaching?\u00a0 Do they know that whatever things that we do in class will be evaluated, audited and monitored?\u00a0<\/strong> So, when you guys give “lousy evaluation”<\/strong><\/span> on our ePPP, sometimes it does make others to raise questions about what and how we teach in class.\u00a0 This is especially if we are teaching different sections, and one section give us good rating about our teaching and another section give us bad rating.\u00a0 We are the same.\u00a0 How can we get two different ratings?<\/strong>\u00a0 It is you guys, students who have different perceptions about us.\u00a0 It’s ok.\u00a0 We are not stopping you from giving us bad evaluation if you feel dissatisfied with us.\u00a0 You are human being with feelings so, it is your right to let your emotion known to us.\u00a0 But you have to do it with hikmah (<\/em>wisdom).\u00a0 That’s something that you need to learn.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong> If you are dissatisfied with the university or the lecturer who teaches\/taught you, please use proper channel.\u00a0 Don’t use UTMConfession with the hope that anyone that you think has nothing better to do than to entertain your slandering complaint would read it.\u00a0 Do you think that by posting such thing would change the situation according to what you wish?\u00a0 It might backfire you instead.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know about its existence last year (2018) when I did my Latihan Ikhtisas.\u00a0 I have no issue about its existence and whatever posts that people write.\u00a0 A similar kind of blog such as IIUMconfession has existed few years back earlier.\u00a0 For IIUMconfession, most of the times, the students or former students of IIUM would … Continue reading UTMconfession<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-random-rambling","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}