Experience 1

Hai,

I'm a practicum teacher who is currently teaching in a secondary school in Johor. Since I am a new teacher, this is the first time for me in teaching real students in real life and there are a lot of new things that I have never seen before during my study in the university. The experiences that I gains here cover many aspects of being a person who is called a teacher and it is a little bit different from what i have learned in theory classes. The first thing that I want to write in this post is that I was caught off guard by the realities of teaching. Of course I thought that I will be busy, but busy with the students, not with other side works that teacher needs to do at the same time such as students’ administration, co-curricular activities and also other school’s programs. The first time I entered and sit on the chair in the teacher’s room, I can see that many teachers were discussing about their students among themselves. Most of them need to key in the personal details of their students in the online database by the Ministry of Education. There is a lot of work that needs to be done such as gathering the personal details of the students before they can key in the data. It is worse when there is problem with the data or the database itself. In addition, the first week in schools feels like crazy. I feel like I keep running around the whole weeks in order to gather information about the school that needs us to meet all the important personnel in the school. I learned that being a teacher needs us to be very fast and effective in doing our works.