Lawatan PPD Serian ke SMK Tebedu Bagi Tujuan PBS

Lawatan dari PPD, En. Patrick pada hari Khamis yang lepas sememangnya dialu-alukan oleh pihak sekolah bagi memperbaiki pelaksanaan PBS di SMK Tebedu. Setelah beberapa jam di sekolah memeriksa fail PBS, akhirnya, beliau telah memberikan komen yang konstruktif kepada guru-guru agar PBS semasa taklimat guru tentang bagaimana PBS dapat dilaksanakan dengan baik dan efektif.

Semua guru telah hadir di sesi taklimat tersebut. Antara perkara yang ditekankan oleh En Patrick ialah bagaimana rekod transit perlu disimpan terutama sekali mengenai tarikh PBS yang mestilah tepat dan yang sebenarnya. Begitu juga, fail-fail hendaklah lengkap dengan eviden. Rata-rata guru menerima baik komen yang diberikan dan sesetengah guru mengambil peluang untuk memohon penjelasan mengenai isu isu PBS yang agak mengelirukan para guru.

Guru yang mengambil serius hal PBS.

Guru-guru yang sentiasa ceria walaupun PBS merupakan sesuatu yg sukar bagi mereka.

Ada juga yang terlalu serius. 

Semoga dengan lawatan PPD kali ini, maka bertambah cemerlanglah PBS di SMK Tebedu.

‘Re-introduction of Bible study proper and good’

KUCHING: Schools have to make special arrangement for students who wish to study Bible knowledge, now that the government has allowed them to take the subject after regular school hours.

Other arrangements include qualified teachers who must be focused and able to manage a big group of students.

Sarawak Teachers Union president William Ghani Bina said this when lauding the government’s move to ‘re-introduce’ the subject in secondary schools throughout Malaysia yesterday.

“The move is proper and good. Since more and more social ills keep cropping up, the move is welcomed. If all students are taught their respective religion in schools, I hope this could calm them down and also help to discipline them,” said Ghani, who is a Christian himself.

“Now that the government has decided on the matter, the school authority should make proper arrangement to ensure that the subject is being taught in schools successfully. There must also be sufficient number of qualified teachers. I am sure the number of students will be big (if they are taking the lesson inside halls). So teachers must be focused so that they can manage them well,” he said.

Ghani believed the move is part of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak 1Malaysia’s campaign.

“It is the 1Malaysia move where we accept Islam as the country’s official religion but we also can have other religions being practised by others peacefully. This is wonderful because we will be able to teach our children to realise that, apart from our own religion, there are others who practise theirs,” he said.

Malaysia is a country where various religions exist in harmony. Bible Knowledge used to be a subject being taught for public examination in most schools in Sarawak previously. As years went by, the subject received little or no attention at all, especially in schools in urban areas. After Najib took over the Malaysia premiership, he wanted more sense of religious harmony among Malaysians.

Last Saturday in Penampang, Sabah, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said Bible Knowledge could now be taught to Christian students in government and mission secondary schools throughout the country but only after regular school hours.

Dompok, who chaired the Technical Committee for Sabah and Sarawak Bumiputeras, said the landmark decision was reached at the first meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Sabah and Sarawak Bumiputeras, chaired by Najib on Feb 7.

“We believe this decision will go a long way towards a full realisation of the 1Malysia concept,” he told reporters in Penampang.

He said he hoped that the decision would enable students concerned to sit for Bible Knowledge as elective subject examination at Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) level.

The cabinet committee meeting had also agreed to several other resolutions submitted by the Federation of Christian Mission Schools Malaysia last year, Dompok said then.

When contacted yesterday, Land Development Minister Dao Sri Dr James Masing also welcomed the federal government’s move to enhance the teaching of Bible Study throughout Malaysia.

“It is a positive development and in line with the 1Malyasia concept where we are to respect each other’s faith or belief,” he said.

The move is good for the people who want to study and master the Bible, he added.

“It is also a good move because it means people can do what they want to do,” he explained.

Masing also shared with Ghani the concern that there should be enough number of qualified teachers otherwise the Bible principles would be compromised.

“There must be qualified teachers as we do not want them to teach different things later on. There should also be enough number of teachers to teach Bible knowledge,” said Masing who is Parti Rakyat Sarawak president cum Baleh assemblyman.

Malaysians, he said, should be grateful as the Prime Minister (Najib) is ensuring that all citizens would be moving in the right direction.

By Churchill Edward of The Borneo Post

History a must-pass subject in SPM from 2013 – Muhyiddin

KUALA LUMPUR: History will be a must-pass subject in Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination from 2013 along with the Bahasa Malaysia subject, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.

With the move, students must pass the subject to be able to obtain the SPM certificate, said Muhyiddin, who is the Education Minister.

“We need to give them (students) some time to adjust. We also need time to train teachers and to prepare our students to face the new system,” he said in his winding-up speech at the 2010 Umno General Assembly, here yesterday.

He also said that from 2014, history would be made a core subject in primary school under the Primary School Standard Curriculum.

“As what has been raised by the representatives from Perak and Kedah, at the moment, history elements are only taught in the Local Studies subject,” he said.

He said the ministry would also make improvement to the subject, with emphasis on enhancing the understanding of the constitution so as to enlighten students about the country’s nation-building process.

He also said that the implementation of the school-based assessment system, which would replace the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR), would be brought forward from 2016 to 2014 following calls for the assessment system to be expedited.

“The UPSR (Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah) examination will be retained but will undergo improvement based on current development. But we still need some time to retrain the teachers and so on,” he said. — Bernama

Move to make school curriculum fun to promote learning-Wee

KUALA LUMPUR: The Education Ministry's transformation of the school curriculum is aimed at sparking creative, innovative ideas among students through acquisition of knowledge via fun learning, the Dewan Negara heard yesterday.

Deputy Minister of Education Datuk Wee Ka Siong said the transformation would, however, retain the basic philosophy of the education system of the country, despite using a different approach or initiative.

"The emphasis will be on school-based assessment, focus on creative and innovative literacy, aimed at promoting critical and balanced human capital and participation in curriculum activities inside and outside school" he said when answering Senator Datuk Abdul Rashid Ngah here yesterday.

Abdul Rashid had wanted to know what transformation of curriculum meant and whether a study on the philosophy of the country's education system was needed.

Wee said the transformation of the school curriculum was not significant as it would involve not only the curriculum but also a holistic approach to teaching and learning interaction, creativity as well as values.

He told the Dewan Negara that the implementation of the transformation of the school curriculum had already started at the pre-school stage this year and followed through Year One, next year and subsequently to Form One by 2012-Bernama.

Source: Borneo Post