FAKULTI PENDIDIKAN DAN BAHASA

JANUARY 2015 SEMESTER

OUMH1303

ENGLISH FOR ORAL COMMUNICATION

MATRICULATION NO: 760905125652001

IDENTITY CARD NO. : 760905125652
TELEPHONE NO. : 0135456150
E-MAIL : nurhayati.iskandar76@gmail.com
TOTUR : Puan Siti Batiah Mohamad

LEARNING CENTRE : OUM TAWAU

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TITLE : POOR PERFORMANCE OF THEIR CHILDREN,PARTICULARY IN

MATHEMATICS,SCIENCE AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Good morning to the Principal, fellows teachers, line of the PTA committee and
lovely parents. Welcome to our third PTA meeting and a very thank you to all of you for
spending some of your precious time to come here for this meeting. As in our previous
meeting, weve come out with a quite interesting issues which we think all of you already
known what is it about. Recently, there have been a major concerns from parents relating
to their children poor performance in academic in this school. Many students seem to
have difficulties with particular subjects which are Mathematics, Science and English
Language. As the president of the Parents Teachers Association, such matter also
worries me as I am also a parent. Recently, there have been a major changes happened to
our education syllabus that requires changes to particular subjects. Perhaps those
changes did affect our childrens performance in their studies. But to blame on such
changes solely would not be fair.

The PTA committee thought that this is a serious issues and after weve discussed
this matter, weve come out with some ideas that seem reasonable for every one of us. We
also had a few thought to overcome our problem about to earn some money for
insufficient PTA funds. So, well give u some overview about what we want to say next.
First, well talk about the poor performance of our children for these three subjects
and what we may do to improvise them and then well talk about the ideas to raise money
for the fund which all of you will surely will love to know and we hope youll give your
full support.

Before we go further about this, I would love to ask all of you to lend me your
ears, eyes and the most important thing, your brain because I want a full attention from
all of you regarding these issues.

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Ladies and gentlemen,

Before you guys started to get bored, I think go through with our agenda. First of
all, about the poor performance for these three subjects, we have divided this thing into
four point of view which is from the subjects itself, teachers, parents and school. Well go
through by each subjects one by one.

I guess everyone knows that Mathematics is not an easy subject. Its required your
fullattention in orders to understand it well. We all noticed that playing with the numbers
is not something that we love to do unless we have interest in the subject. So, after doing
some homework, we have come to some technique that suitable for the teachers to
implied during the teaching and learning process.

Lets say if the teachers spend a short time during the class period on something
mathematical which is puzzling or fascinating. For example, ask some question to the
student by the end of the period, and make sure theyll they answered it by the beginning
of the next class. What if we asked them to guess how many second have you lived and
what if someone covered your bed with money every day without overlapping them, how
much money will you have? or you could ask them to play some games such as how
many possible ways are there, in chess, for black and white each to make their opponent
move? The other method that and be used is letting your students help you teach .Dont
just give answers right away but just give them a lead and let them make suggestions.

Teachers must realized that student have different ways of thinking to understand
the true Science concept that they are learning. many research found that student have
their own alternative or idea based on their daily experience that is away far from the
right scientific concept itself. In Science, teaching using the text book alone is not
enough. That will makes students find it hard to understand everything about science
theory, factsand concept. So, teachers must know how to manipulate things such as to do
more outdoor activities to explain thing.

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For example, instead of showing the process of photosynthesis from the book,
they can bring their student outside the class to use the real tree to explain about the
process so the student will be more clear about what is the process is all about. Giving
group assignment is another method that teachers can do. Ask each group to pick one of
the experiment exercise from the book and they have to do the experiment according to
the instruction that been given. Make sure they had write every single details from the
beginning until they have complete the hypothesis for the experiment.

English Language which is also known as the world language. Most of the
country around the world are using this language in their business deal, diplomatic
meeting and many more. Sadly, there were some student didnt have interest to learn
English. This happen because they failed to notice on how important to learn English
Language. In other word, they dont know why and on what purpose they have to learn
this world language. So, teachers have to play their role to explain the reasons and
rationality of learning English because nowadays, students always begging for reward in
return for doing something including learning.

Another factor that cause the poor performance in English Language is there
were so much student uneven capability among students. Today, the scale between
teachers and students is 1:40. Between these 40 students, it could be only half of them
that really give full attention in the class or maybe it could be less than that. It will be
difficult for the teacher to evaluate their students one by one and because of that, teachers
will assumethat their students can understand well.

Ladies and gentlemen,

By the way, teachers themselves must be more creative while teaching in class.
They have to come out with an effective and fun method during teaching such as always
giving a practical examples because this is one of the effective ways an should be use
regularly. Teachers can help students link theory to practical application, which may

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result in more productive learning. practical examples is not only help enhance the
theories taught in the classroom, but also a useful tools in illustrating and explaining
new material. By using these examples, teachers are able to show students what they are
learning has practical applications and also teach them how to apply basic principles to
real life problem.

The second method that can be apply while teaching is show and tell. One of the
goodness of this method is, students and teachers can change their role the other way
around. But in order to explain the concept to others, student must understand deeply all
about the concept first which require them to understand and analyze the selected subject
fully before they can explain about it to their peers.

Here comes the best part. The point of view from parents. Education starts from
home.parents are the first teacher to their children. It's been our responsibility to teach
and nurture our children of what will they become when they grow up. So, there are a
few things that we can do such as dont ever think that only teachers are responsibility
towards our children performance in study. We must remember that students only spent
their time for about 6 to 8 hours at school daily and most of the time, theyll at home. So
we must be alert about our children activities, get to know all of their friends and realize
if there were any changes in their behavior. If we want to help them with their problem,
we have to become their friend first instead of being their parent.

This have to be done because children only like to share their problems with
friends more than their own family members. We also must have a good relationship with
our childrens teachers in orders to know about our childrens performance in their study.
Thats the best way for us to know which subject that our children are weak in. So, in
order to be a good parents, we have to help them with their needs such as provide extra
reference books, send them to tuition class especially for the subjects that they are not
very good at.

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Last but not least, we have to give them moral support continuously, advice and persuade
them about on why they have to success in their study in order to see them becoming a
useful person for our beloved country.

And now we have come to the last point of view which is the school. What is
school may contribute to the issues? School here means the principal, head of unit and all
the teachers. Nowadays, there were a few of our local universities such as Malaysia
Islamic International University or in malay is stand for Universiti Islam Antarabangsa
Malaysia or UIAM had been introduce with a social service program. One of the
purposes of this program is to involve in motivational program at school. So, we can
collaborate with any local universities to organize this kind of program.

In this program, students from the universities can share their tips, experience or
anything about being a good student and they also can give the students with some skills
to answers question the better way. They also may share problems among them because it
easier for school student to co-operate with the universities student because they are more
like brothers and sisters to them. As a return, we will provide them with an appreciation
letter and at the same time, we are helping them with their social service program. So, its
like a win win situation, right? We also may organized a special day or special for those
subjects such as English Day/Week, and Science and Mathematics Day/Week.

There are so many events and program that we can do while the program is being
held such as essay writing competition, spelling bee competition, debate and during the
week, students and teachers have to speak in English while communicating with each
other and if they failed to do so, they will be fined 20 cent each time they make the
mistake and maximum RM1.00 per day. For the Science and Mathematics, we can
organize a trip to National Science Centre, Planetarium Negara or Petrosains Exhibition.
Students will be surpriseof what could they find there because there are so many amazing
thing that they may explore when they were there and we hope that this will increase their
interest to learn more about Science and Mathematics.

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On top of that, we also could organize a Mathematics workshop that will be

conducted by an experience teachers. One more thing, we also can arrange an extra class
or tuition at school maybe after the end of school session or on the weekend. These
tuition will be teach by the school teachers itself and as a rewards, they will be given
some incentive. Sound like fun isnt it?

Ok, we are done talking about the subjects issues, and I hope all of you
understand everything that been told just now. Now, I would like to move on to our
second issues.As you all know, everything in this world nowadays have a price and to
make sure all of the methods will be done successfully, we got have enough money and
that is our second issue here. We dont have enough money in our PTA funds, so we have
came out with a few ideas on how to earn more money.

After having a discussion with the PTA committee, we thought that it will be
good if we having a Carnival Day at school. There will be a food stalls, souvenir stalls,
games other thing that we think is appropriate with the events. All this stalls will be
manage by each club and association from the school. I know you all are wondering on
how we will earn the money from this events. During the Carnival Day , every single
purchase must use coupons. Coupons booklet will be sold in three prices and that will be
RM20.00, RM40.00, and RM60.00 per booklet. 60% from the coupons selling collection
will go to the PTA funds and another 40 % will be divided to all clubs and association
that have been participated in the events and to make it more interesting, clubs or
association that can collect the highest amount, will be given a special prize.

Charity Dinner is another option to raise money for our fund. We will selling
tables to earn the money. The price for each tables will be RM500 each and there will be
10 person per table. Each tables will cost us about RM250.00 for the food and we will
take another RM50.00 per table in order to buy presents for the lucky draw. So, we will
earn RM200.00 nett per table. Lets say we are having about 50 tables, total amount that
we can get is about RM10,000.00. Isnt that great?

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We all comes from a different kind of economics background, so we will be

grateful if any of you would be generous to donate some money for our PTA fund or with
the power that you have, you can persuade any private organization to contribute a sum
of money to our PTA fund.

So, now I would like to summarise about my speech today. For the poor
performance of our children in those three subjects, we all have to participate and always
back each other up for sake of childrens victory. You are always welcome if you have
any new ideas in conjunction to make this school the best place for our children to gain
knowledge.

Teachers, parents and any party that involve must playing their part to make sure
the successful of our children. Im sure that you dont want to cry because of their failure
but to cry because they have succeed with flying colours, right? We understand, that not
everyone can give their money that easy. Some of you may have more important thing to
do with the money instead of giving us just like that but that not the issues, because we
really hope that you still contribute in your own ways as long as all the thing that we
have been discussed just now will reach its goals.

Lastly, I would like say on behalf of the PTA committee, a million of thank you
to all of you because you let us take a little of your time to attend this meeting. I also
would like to apologize if I have say anything that makes you angry. The good thing
comes from God, the bad thing comes from me. Thank you very much.

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