Sunday, 19 January 2014

Journal mu Journal ku juaaa

assalamualaikum wbt.

yaww hai ! haha. ok for this entry, aku akan share kan about my esaimen PDJ untuk subject counselling. untuk esaimen ni alhamdulillah aku dapat... satu.. emm dua.. emm.. hehe lapan per sepuluh. :D #kachengg! sebelum tu, maafkan aku sebab aku tau. there is a lot of grammatical error yang terdapat dalam esaimen aku ni. almaklumlah wuhu.. aku ni muet pon repeat 2 kali. kali kedua tu pon baru cecah band 3 hahahaa..! ayat sedeh je blah laa! okay. i just want to share my experience about counselling in my life so enjoy your reading :)


Personal Development Journal.

First time I walked into Faculty of Education, which placed at Seksyen 17 Shah Alam, I was wondering what the subjects later would be my “burden” in this degree stage. This is because, we as part 1 students of Bachelor of Education (Hons) were not be exposed clearly about our course’s subjects and classes during orientation. We do know nothing. Even though when we are look at the timetable shown on the notice-board, my friends and I didn’t know what the subjects are shown with the short cut word.

MAT 421. “Maybe it is math’s class.” EDU 404. “EDU? What was that?” EDU 430. “Huh? EDU again? What is the different with this previously EDU class?” My eyes look at the lecturer’s name, Siti Hawa Othman. Hmmm... her name just like a woman with full of kindness. Hopefully, amin... And I hope too that she is sporting and not ‘violent in temper’ person. Amin. We are starting from zero, until we attend to the classes as shown as the timetable given. Then slowly, we understand the flow and the system of the university.

The first EDU 430 class that have I attended was on Wednesday 10.20 am, placed at Cendana 1. Datin Siti Hawa came into the class about 10-15 minutes later. As she came into the class, automatically my mouth was shut. Just like a situation where a discipline teacher coming into your class and the class were automatically in a silent mode. Syyhhh.... Just the sound of aircond was heard. My first expression towards her, she looks like a straight person and ... is it she is a Chinese? Hmmm, nope I don’t think so because her name showing that she is a Malays woman. Yeah, maybe Chinese look. Whatever, but I like her hair and her style. Look simple and nice.

When she starts to have a conversation, I was so impress. Wow, what good English that she has. I understand nicely for every single sentence that she said but if she asks us, I don’t know how to reply it. Yeah, maybe my English was not so good as her so I don’t have any confident to reply her back in English. So sometimes I refer to silent and smiling. Haha. When Datin Siti Hawa told us her experiences as a counsellor, I was again, impress. There are a lot of experiences that she have and share to us! We are lucky to hear that from someone who are well experienced. Then I realize that in EDU 430 class, we will learn about counselling, guidance, giving advices, how to act like a good teacher, don’t bias to your students, think rationally to conduct the situation not emotionally and else. We’ll learn every single thing about psychology.

For me, the word of psychology is so interesting. I’m really excited knowing that I’ll learn about psychology. Since I’m 17, I always try to survey and search on internet how to psycho people around us, how to develop our psycho’s skill and else. It was really interesting!

In EDU 430 class, I have heard that Datin Siti Hawa told us everything about her experiences when she was a counsellor in a primary school. She told us her story, and my mind was automatically reviews back, flash back, into my school memory. I tried to compare up her story, is it same as mine when I was a student. Some stories were same but some were not. I was attracted with her statement which are some teachers do bias toward their students and always chatter about the class who getting lower mark compare to the highest one. Yes, I really agree about that statement!
Some teachers do bias. When I’m 17, there is a graduation event which I have to attend to. My entire class members (42 students including me) were compulsory to attend that event. We don’t know why but we just think that, “Ok guys, we are the first batch who got this graduation event. So let’s enjoy it! Don’t think that it is a burden on this weekend.” Yeah, as a SPM’s student we didn’t like to attend or wasting off our gold weekend times with this such event. But some of my friends think it as a positive way.

But there are something shocking us. Although we are the first class (Bio-science student) in that school, we have a lot of friends which come from Account students, Art students and else. Even my cousin is an account student too in that school. We have heard that only student in 5 Cemerlang (Account)  who got success in their trial exam can join this event while the rest can’t join it because the teacher said that the graduation event already have enough student to attend to. Not only 5 Cemerlang but also 5 Ehsan and 5 Dedikasi were received that instruction. What the pity of them! Even my class was the first class, I know there are some of my class members were got worse in his trial exam but teacher force us to join it. Compulsory! No choice.  But why they are so selective to other classes? “This event just belongs to 5 Amanah and 5 Bestari. Not us. So we no need to attend.” Okay.. Some fishy had happen here. We feel so sorry to them.

In a view of counselling, I start to attend the counselling room when I was 13. This is because I had a sexual abuse from my friend so I make decision to report it. Then I continue my “visiting” to counselling room just until form 3 because my counselling teacher got to move to other school. Although she got to move to other school, I still come and visit her, since her house is nearby to mine.

As a teacher-to-be, I think that it is necessary for us to learn counselling subject. There are wide in use of counselling. As a teacher, we are just not teaching the children or teenagers about academic but also motivate and give some passion to them about their life. We know that there are a lot of conflicts occur in teenage years including social illness, family problems and also friend matter. So as an educator and moderator of the teenagers, we should take part on how to reduce their conflict and help them to solve their problem by their own decision.

It’s not just counselling teacher can give advice or any sort of motivation to the students, other teachers also can take the role. That is why we have to learn the counselling, perhaps it would help us to encourage or give some advice to our students later. Each teacher must have that counselling skill even though she or he is not a counselling teacher. This because, in counselling we not just give motivation or advices, but also psycho our client, that came from students and also their parents. What I mean by psycho here is how do we interact with them with psychology method. This psychology method was also in one of counselling subtopic.

I’ll make an example here from my experience when I was 15. My History teacher builds up two conditions. First, all students must bring along their History text book during History subject and second, she will select someone (the “lucky” one) that her like to explain in front of others class member for the whole chapter that have she explained before. Those who forget to bring the text book or fail to explain the complete story about selected chapter, she or he will lead the other class member to receive a punishment.

She will not give a physical punishment, but a mental punishment. We have ever taste how “sweet” sat below our own table for 30 minutes! Wow.. Imagine that a student with size double XL have to stay below her table for 30 minutes, superb. Not just that, we also have receive a punishment which have to stand straight along the class’s corridor during our senior break time. What a shame when our crush see us stand straight outside the class while our teacher just sitting on the chair. Some of our friends (next class) just laughing at us.

Since that day, all of us.. I repeat ALL of us, always check and remind each other to bring the history text book along and conquer the topic given. If one forgot to bring their own book, all of us will find another solution together, fast, which is borrow other History book from other class. What is important? Cooperation. There is first time I saw my classmates (the boys) which have never held the book with their hands before, hold the book and bring it along during recess time. Haha. Its so funny and awkward when saw school thugs read book during anyone else have a breakfast with Nasi Lemak.

It is important to use psychology in education method. There are a lot of benefits if we look deeply for the outcomes. Base on my story, I was salute for my History teacher which use psychology that leads us to success. I got A for my History in PMR even though I just got D before for my final exam Form 2. My classmates entire also get high mark compared to their previous exam. I said thanks to my History teacher which encourage and enhance my friends and I to love History.

Later, when I am a teacher, I would like to use certainly of my previous teacher’s method to encourage my students to study with enjoyable. Love on what they do and miss on what they practice. I’m always wish that I will be the best teacher to my beloved student .... soon. Which on future, I will always in their heart, as my teachers in my heart.









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