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Berita PPSMI Terkini
Jul 8th
PPSMI Akan Dimansuhkan?!
Dasar kontroversi Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris (PPSMI) akan dimansuhkan sepenuhnya pada Tahun 2012, iaitu tiga tahun lagi dari sekarang. Pengumuman ini baru dibuat oleh menteri pelajaran, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. Beliau berkata bahawa di sekolah kebangsaan, bahasa Melayu akan menggantikan bahasa Inggeris untuk mengajar dua matapelajaran itu. Sementara sekolah jenis kebangsaan Cina dan Tamil akan menggunakan bahasa ibunda masing-masing, tambahnya.
Pemansuhan itu dijalankan berperingkat-peringkat sehingga semua pelajar yang terlibat dengan dasar itu tamat peringkat masing-masing pada 2012. Dasar yang diperkenalkan sejak 2003 itu mendapat semakin banyak bantahan, khususnya sejak awal tahun ini apabila sekumpulan aktivis bahasa berjaya menggerakkan ribuan orang berarak ke Istana Negara.
Kabinet hari ini meluluskan cadangan strategi kementerian untuk memartabatkan bahasa Melayu dan memantapkan pengajaran bahasa Inggeris. Strategi ini dirangka berdasarkan hasil kajian dan pemantauan yang telah dilakukan oleh Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia mengenai PPSMI.
Ada pihak yang memberi pandangan bahawa PPSMI perlu dimansuhkan mulai tahun depan iaitu 2010. Namun begitu, ada baiknya kalau PPSMI dimansuhkan tiga tahun lagi akan datang supaya murid-murid dapat menyesuaikan diri dalam perubahan ini. Pada masa yang sama, pihak penerbit buku atau program perisian cd boleh mangambil masa ini untuk membangunkan perisian baru yang menggunakan BM.
Persoalan sekarang ialah: Apa pula akan terjadi pada peralatan-peralatan PPSMI di sekolah seperti laptop dan projector? Perlu dikembalikan kepada KPM? Selepas ini, mungkin CD dan program pengajaran perlu menggunakan perisian dalam bahasa Melayu? Ini bermakna berjuta-juta ringgit lagi diperlukan untuk pembangunan CD perisian dalam bahasa Melayu pula.
Apa pula cerita dengan UPSR? Pening kepala guru-guru Sains nak menukar istilah, cara-cara menjawab dan sebagai nya. Apa-apa pun mari lah kita berdoa agar sistem pendidikan kita akan bertambah baik dan maju untuk kebaikan generasi akan datang. Sekian.
Guru Cemerlang
Jul 5th
Objektif kenaikan pangkat Guru Cemerlang
“Guru Cemerlang ialah guru yang mempunyai pengetahuan, kemahiran, dan kepakaran yang tinggi dalam mata pelajaran khususnya dalam bidang pengajaran dan pembelajaran. Guru Cemerlang juga sentiasa berdedikasi dan bermotivasi dalam melaksanakan tugas dan tanggungjawab yang cemerlang secara berterusan.” - Buku Terma Rujukan konsep Guru Cemerlang
Pengetua, Penolong Pengetua, Guru Besar dan Pegawai Pendidikan.
Jawatan-jawatan yang dinyatakan tadi merupakan antara jawatan yang tertinggi dalam bidang perguruan. Kenaikan pangkat dalam bidang perguruan cenderung untuk menjauhkan guru daripada melibatkan diri dalam pengajaran di bilik darjah.
Pengetua, Penolong Pengetua, Guru Besar dan Pegawai Pendidikan.
Jawatan-jawatan yang dinyatakan tadi merupakan antara jawatan yang tertinggi dalam bidang perguruan. Kenaikan pangkat dalam bidang perguruan cenderung untuk menjauhkan guru daripada melibatkan diri dalam pengajaran di bilik darjah.
Secara tidak langsung, bidang perguruan kehilangan guru-guru yang pakar dan berdedikasi dalam bidang masing-masing apabila mereka dinaikkan pangkat.
Menyedari hakikat tersebut, kenaikan pangkat Guru Cemerlang diperkenalkan mulai 1993 sebagai peluang kenaikan pangkat yang lebih baik bagi guru gemilang yang tidak meninggalkan bilik darjah.
Objektif kenaikan pangkat Guru Cemerlang
- Memberi pengiktirafan kepada guru yang cemerlang dalam mata pelajaran atau bidang pengkhususan masing-masing.
- Meningkatkan pencapaian kualiti pengajaran dan pembelajaran (P&P).
- Menjadikan Guru Cemerlang role model kepada guru lain.
- Meningkatkan motivasi guru.
- Meningkatkan kecemerlangan sekolah dengan berkongsi pengalaman dan kemahiran Guru Cemerlang.
- Memperluaskan peluang kenaikan pangkat dalam perkhidmatan pelajaran.
- Membolehkan guru dinaikkan pangkat tanpa perlu meninggalkan tugas mengajar atau bertukar ke jawatan pentadbiran.
- Menyediakan peluang untuk guru naik pangkat ke gred yang lebih tinggi secara laluan laju (fast track), khas Untuk Penyandang (KUP).
Bahasa Inggeris-Subjek Wajib Lulus
Jul 1st
Pandangan Tentang BI Menjadi Subjek Wajib Lulus Dlm SPM
Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran subjek Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris (PPSMI) antara dasar kerajaan yang menimbulkan kontroversi di kalangan rakyat Malaysia terutama ahli pakar bahasa Melayu, Ibu bapa dan guru.
Baru-baru ini, kerajaan bercadang menjadikan bahasa Inggeris sebagai subjek wajib lulus dalam peperiksaan Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM), bermakna sekiranya pelajar lepasan SPM gagal subjek itu, mereka tidak akan memperoleh sijil dan hanya slip keputusan yang dipegang mereka sebagai bukti sudah menduduki peperiksaan itu.
Di sini, saya perhatikan ramai yang memandang mudah terhadap kepentingan bahasa Inggeris dalam memacu pembangunan negara mahupun dalam usaha melahirkan masyarakat minda kelas pertama. Ramai yang menjadikan Jepun sebagai negara contoh kerana negara itu mencapai status negara maju tanpa menggunakan bahasa Inggeris.
Ada segelintir pihak yang menyatakan mereka bimbang budaya Melayu semakin terhakis terutama selepas dasar PPSMI dan bahasa Inggeris sebagai subjek wajib lulus SPM. Situasi ini menunjukkan betapa lemahnya pemikiran segelintir rakyat Malaysia dalam mengharungi kehidupan dunia moden ini.
Jika kita menilai kedua-dua dasar yang saya fokuskan tadi dari sudut positif, pelajar sekolah terutama Melayu boleh menyahut seruan kerajaan dengan belajar bersungguh-sungguh dan mencapai keputusan memberangsangkan dalam peperiksaan. Inilah yang dinamakan motivasi apabila kita berjaya menukar beban kepada cabaran.
Kesimpulannya, hakikat penggunaan bahasa Inggeris dalam negara terutama sistem pendidikan Malaysia memang banyak pro berbanding kontra. Maka, janganlah kita jadikan bahasa Inggeris sebagai satu bebanan, sebaliknya pandanglah dari sudut positif yang akan membuka jalan kepada kemajuan negara, seterusnya pembangunan minda pelajar. Sekian.
Ahmad Fahmi Irsyad Aziz Azmi (Pasir Gudang, Johor)
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Global Warming 2009
Jun 26th
Can Teachers Stop Global Warming?
THOUGH scientists warn that global warming will likely continue for centuries because of the long natural processes involved, there are a few things teachers can do to decrease the effects. Basically, they all boil down to this: don’t use as much of the stuff that creates greenhouse gases. On a local level, you can help by using less energy.
The electricity that operates many of the devices in our homes comes from a power plant and most power plants burn fossil fuels to generate that power. Take shorter whowers to use less hot water. Use a fan instead of an air conditioner on a warm day.
Here are some other specific ways teachers can help decrease greenhouse gas emissions:
1) Make sure teacher’s car is properly tuned up. This allows it to run more efficiently and generate fewer harmful gases.
2) Teachers can walk or ride bike to school if possible, or carpool on your way to school. Cars burn fossil fuel so smaller, more fuel efficient cars emit less CO2, particularly hybrid cars.
3) When teachers are not at home, please turn lights and other appliances off. If can, teachers may switch from incandescent light bulbs to fluorescent bulbs, which use less energy and last longer.
4) Recycle. Garbage that doesn’t get recycled ends up in a landfill, generating methane. Recycled goods also require less energy to produce than products made from scratch.
5) Teachers can plant some trees and other plants in the school compound or in their house garden. Plants take carbon dioxide out of the air and release oxygen.
6) Don’t burn garbage. This releases carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons into the atmosphere.
To really stem the emission of greenhouse gases, we need to develop non-fossil fuel energy sources. Hydro-electric power, solar power, hydrogen engines and fuel cells could all create big cuts in greenhouse gases if they were to become more common.
Projek EduWebTV KPM
Jun 18th
Online Education TV (EduWebTV)
Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia telah memutuskan untuk menyiarkan Rancangan TV Pendidikan melalui web mulai 1 Mac 2008. Sehubungan itu, KPM telah membuat beberapa ketetapan berikut mengenai pelaksanaan Web TV KPM.
Web TV KPM akan menyiarkan tujuh jenis rancangan iaitu:
1) Berita: Saluran ini mengandungi paparan selama 30 minit setiap hari mengenai acara dan aktiviti penting KPM serta warga pendidikan;
2) Wawancara: Saluran ini memuatkan temu bual dengan personaliti KPM atau yang berkait dengan bidang pendidikan mengenai pengupasan isu-isu semasa serta mempromosi inisiatif pendidikan;
3) Akademik: Saluran ini memaparkan perkongsian ilmu yang akan dihoskan oleh pegawai, guru serta personaliti KPM mengenai amalan-amalan terbaik dalam pengajaran dan pembelajaran serta pengurusan pendidikan;
4) Rencana: Saluran ini mempamerkan dokumentan menarik mengenai peristiwa, pengalaman serta pencapaian warga KPM;
5) Interaktif: Saluran ini memuatkan bahan-bahan untuk guru dan murid menambahkan ilmu secara interaktif;
6) Rancangan TV Pendidikan: Saluran ini mengandungi bahan-bahan pendidikan yang dihasilkan oleh Bahagian Teknologi Pendidikan Malaysia; dan
7) Siaran Langsung: Saluran ini akan menyiarkan acara-acara KPM secara langsung melalui internet.
URL bagi Web TV KPM ialah www.eduwebtv.com dan boleh dicapai pada bila-bila masa. Bahagian, Jabatan Pelajaran Negeri, Pejabat Pelajaran Daerah dan semua institusi pendidikan di bawah kawalan Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia adalah digalakkan untuk bekerjasama dengan krew EduwebTV dalam usaha mereka menerbit rancangan Web TV KPM. Sekian terima kasih daripada admin cikgublog.
How article marketing changed the world
Jun 14th
Article Marketing – The New Trend For Advertising
With the Internet the new venue for business, article marketing has become the new trend for advertising and marketing products to consumers. These articles do not only provide information on a variety of topics, it also allows visitors to see the sites. It is because of this wide range of content why it is so easy now to research over the Internet.
Article marketing, to those who are not yet familiar with the field, is the use of articles to help introduce the products that the sites are selling. These articles will often contain a bio box and a byline that will include the name of the business and the contact information. Article marketing is also used in increasing the rank of a site in search engines like Yahoo and Google.
You see, the more articles you put into the directory, the better will your site’s search results will be. Of course, websites that are on top of the sites will have more visitors and in turn better sales from the increased consumer viewing.
A site that has reliable and good content will not only expect the support of the online viewers but also advertisers who feel that they will be viewed more in the website. These companies are called online advertisers.
Some online advertisers can post their advertisement for free in exchange for a percentage of the income generated by the ads or the number of views of the ad. Some sites however sell their space to online advertisers. The pop up advertisements that you see in yahoo every time you open the search engine is an example of this paid advertisement.
The trend of article marketing has also led to a lot of copied content or rephrased content. When you try keyword search and click on the websites that come out in the results, you will notice that a lot of them will have the same content. Some will have the same exact content while others will just be a re-written version of the original that was posted.
Article marketing have definitely changed the face of the Internet. The question is: Is it for the better or for the worse? We will have to wait and see in the future.
Science Assessment Guide
Jun 13th
Science Practical Work Assessment
The UPSR Science Practical Work Assessment (UPSR PEKA) is a school based assessment that is implemented at school level as part of teaching and learning precess. UPSR PEKA Assessment Guide contains information on the objectives, characteristics and organization of UPSR PEKA. It also outlines the precedures to assess the pupils’ practical work as guidelines to teachers as assessors and users of PEKA to carry out the assessment in a coordinated manner.
Objectives of UPSR PEKA
The objectives in conducting UPSR PEKA is to enable the pupils to:
* Master the Scientific Skills: 1) Science Process Skills 2) Science Manipulative Skills
* Strengthen the knowledge and understanding on the theories and concepts in Science
* Inculcate the Scientific Attitudes and Noble Values
The Characteristics of UPSR PEKA
- Compatibility with the Curriculum Specificaton
- Pupil-centered
- Feasible and Systematic
- Open and Transparent
- Variety of Instruments
- Continuous and Formative Assessment
- Valid and Reliable
- Positive Reports
- Continuous Monitoring
The Organization of UPSR PEKA
- Planning, Administration, Scoring, Reporting, Moderation
Method For Assessment
- UPSR PEKA is carried out as part of teaching and learning process.
- Teachers can assess either one construct/skill or several constructs/skills to a small group of pupils or the whole class.
- Scientific Attitudes and Noble Values should be assessed simultaneously with other skills.
- Teachers assess, give and record the score of the evidence presented by the pupils. All the information regarding the evidence are accessible to the pupils.
- Pupils must submit a complete evidence.
- Pupils who have not mastered any assessed constructs are able to repeat it in another assignment.
- Teachers must plan enough assignments to ensure that all the constructs have been assessed.
- Pupils should be given adequate chances to master the required skills before the assessment is made.
- The assessment should be carried out at least two times in each year, from Year 3 to Year 6. The highest score for each construct could be taken from either year.
Malaysia’s Environmental Education
Jun 9th
Malaysia’s Environmental Education From NUTP’s Perspective
Major problems standing in the way of successful implementation of Environmental Education in Malaysia:
1. Although Environmental Education is being implemented in schools by integrating it across the curriculum and its importance is being recognized within our National Education Policy, there is no specific policy on Environmental Education. Environmental Education is taught as a classroom subject per se.
2. The implementation of ‘Environmental Education across the Curriculum‘ requires that school administrative staff fully understand and the teachers be adquately trained with the necessary knowledge and skills of the concepts in Environmental Education. The lack of a strong policy on Environmental Education within the National Education Policy pushed this requirement to the bottom of the list of Malaysian schools priorities.
3. As the guidebooks for the implementation of Environmental Education are not widely distributed, teachers are not aware of their existence. Much classroom teachings on envrionment do not create the awareness that is required to be instilled in our students.
4. Activities on Environmental Education are consedered extracurricular activities and as such not given serious attention by many Malaysian schools. This is caused by a lack of understanding of the broad and complex concepts in Environmental Education that cover not only extracurricular activities but also every aspect within the education system.
5. There is a lack of teaching materials for teachers to integrate and infuse Environmental Education at schools, as there is with budget allocation.
For more info, please visit http://www.nutp.org
LADAP Sekolah 2009
Jun 2nd
Dasar ‘Latihan Dalam Perkhidmatan’
Pihak kerajaan telah memperkenalkan dasar latihan sumber manusia sektor awam yang berkuat kuasa pada 1 January 2005. Matlamat dasar latihan ini adalah untuk pembangunan sumber manusia sejajar dengan kehendak yang terkandung dalam dasar wawasan negara untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara yang maju dan cemerlang menjelang tahun 2020.
Pada awalnya, tiada sebarang aduan atau rungutan guru yang diterima, tetapi sejak tahun 2007 dan 2008, para guru sudah mula meluahkan perasaan tidak puas hati mereka terhadap dasar latihan sumber manusia kerana terdapat pelbagai tafsiran di peringkat pelaksanaanya. Antaranya:
1. Semua guru diwajibkan menghadiri kursus Latihan Dalam Perkhidmatan anjuran sekolah walaupun guru berkenaan telah menghadiri lebih daripada 7 hari kursus/bengkel/mesyuarat atas arahan KPM/JPN.
2. Guru diminta mengisi buku log yang disediakan pihak sekolah.
3. Ada juga sekolah-sekolah yang meminta para guru membayar untuk menghadiri kursus-kursus LADAP.
4. Guru terpaksa menguruskan kursus, menyediakan laporan dan mencari penceramah sendiri.
5. Terdapat rungutan mengenai Pentadbir Sekolah yang proaktif dan kreatif yang cuba menggunakan buku log LDP untuk Penilaian Markah Prestasi. Ini tidak dibenarkan sama sekali kerana tiada arahan dari pihak kerajaan.
Akibat daripada masalah-masalah yang timbul, pihak NUTP telah mengemukakan pandangan guru kepada Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam dan Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia. Nutp juga mahu kelonggaran syarat diberikan kepada kumpulan guru yang proaktif, di mana guru-guru yang telah menghadiri kursus/seminar/bengkel melebihi 7 hari dikecualikan dari menghadiri kursus di peringkat sekolah, khasnya pada hari Sabtu.
Sebenarnya, para guru merupakan anggota yang sentiasa diarahkan untuk meningkatkan kompetensi, kualiti kerja, nilai-nilai murni serta sikap positif oleh Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia. Kami yakin guru-guru sudah pun memenuhi syarat yang dikehendaki dalam Pekeliling Perkhidmatan Bil.6-2005 dan tidak perlu lagi menghadiri LDP pada hari Sabtu. Sekian terima kasih.
P/S: Artikel ini hanyalah pandangan daripada NUTP. Sila lawati www.NUTP.org untuk maklumat lebih lanjut.
A Power Blog Promoting Technique
Jun 7th
Posted by Admin in Blog Advertising
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How To Promote Your Blog Using Comments
You keep on hearing bloggers marvel about the wonderful benefits of leaving comments on other blogs but you’ve yet to try the tactic yourself. If you still aren’t sure about the wisdom of following their steps, here are a few reasons that could convince you to take that final step.
Show Your Expertise
Everyone prefers to listen to an expert than an amateur. With an expert’s advice, you spend your time wisely and get to learn something in return. Unfortunately, there isn’t always an opportunity to show your expertise.
As such, you have to create the opportunity for yourself once in a while and you can do that by leaving comments on other people’s blogs. Try spending a few minutes visiting other people’s blogs. Go around the blogging community, and once you’ve found some questions you’re very much in the position to answer, go ahead and share your wisdom.
Giving advice whenever it’s solicited is so much better than bragging, don’t you think?
Show Your Charm, Eloquence, and Wit
People can be terribly greedy. To please them, you not only have to be intelligent but you have to be articulate and witty, too. If you had a choice between visiting the blog of an extremely smart but humorless Internet marketer and one who’s moderately smart but witty, which blog would you choose? Many would choose the latter, don’t you think?
Now that you know what’s demanded of you, the next thing to do is determine how to prove that you indeed have all those great qualities. Again, you do that by leaving comments on other people’s blogs.
It’s very important not to overdo your bit when you’re out to display your wit. While providing excessive information can be seen as simply being detailed, being too funny could make other people you’re trying too hard to be so.
There’s a right time, place, and reason to be funny. Make sure you know when such moments occur!
Reciprocate
If other people left comments on your blogs, you owe it them to return the favor. Technically, you’re not obliged to do so but good business dictates reciprocity. And it’s really not that bad. Leaving comments on each other’s blog regularly will soon lead to link exchanges, another factor that can generate more traffic for your respective blogs.
If you continue to nurture your partnership after that, it can lead to even greater collaborations that would benefit both of you.
How to Make Your Comments Effective for Internet Marketing
All three reasons below are able to achieve the same goal: catch your target market’s attention and make them visit your blog. To increase your chances of success, you must make sure that your comments follow the tips below.
Write courteously.
Remember the usual rules of courtesy when you’re posting a comment on someone else’s blog.
Don’t be argumentative
Not everyone welcomes a debate so if you truly believe that there’s a need for you to propose an opposing view, make sure you do so politely and be very clear in saying that you only wish to expression your opinion and nothing else.
Don’t forget to link
Lastly, remember to provide a link to your blog whenever you leave a comment. This may be standard procedure but a lot of first-time bloggers still end up forgetting to do so. If you don’t want to risk losing any opportunity, never forget to post your link!