Enhancing teacher Proeddionalism Current Chalenges Of A Primary & Secondary School Teacher

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CURRENT CHALLENGES OF A PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER. As an English teacher, I am still learning and try to absorb the changes and challenges being an English teacher. Below are the common challenges that I faced after years being and English teacher in different schools:

Teacher and Pupils Enhancing Teaching Profession Teacher and transformation to ICT based

Teacher as a human Teacher and Community Teacher and Administration

Teacher and teaching Methodolgy

1.Teacher and Pupils. Pupils are our core, where we meet them everyday. A teacher in 21st century are totally different than the previous era. I discovered that nowadays pupils are advance in something that beyond the curriculum. Pupils in the classroom, pupils in cocurriculum and pupils in the society changed after several years in the education scene in Malaysia. In classroom, the rules and regulations (discipline) are no longer being focused by them and the teacher himself. Here I am not blaming to the teacher but it happened because of many factors. Teacher influenced by the new working environment where they had no time to give more attention in classroom management. Teacher enter the classroom and teach, sometimes they did not realize that several amount of pupils were not ready to learn. I am focusing on the pupils preparation (staionaries,books,motivation) where these pupils who broke the rules were increased. The other criteria is a big jump of language proficiency between the slow learner and the advance learner. A teaching profession request us to teach as well as to enhance and to do the remedial activities in the classroom. It is some kind of burden for the teachers where they have to trace, record, take action and of course to teach the pupils. To do those items are really a tough challenge as a teacher. Pupils in rural area have a different story. They are still leave behind. They even do not know how to write

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their name. English for them is useless. They dont want to learn English, this is where a teacher must show their talent to attract the pupils attention and motivation to learn English. The question is, how am I going to encourage them to learn English? This question is always on my attention in my teaching profession. Especially for those teachers who teach in rural school where we have aborigine pupils in the school. English become a third language for them. As well as pupils who live in villages including estate, FELDA and other reconstructed land belongs to government and nongovernment sectors (new neighbourhood). Pupils and ICT tranformation is another challenge for me. Now, they have facility to access information. Sometimes, the know English better than the teacher who teach them. This happened among the advance pupils who come from a wealth family. They can afford those appliance such as a smart phone, I-book, notebook even mobile dictionary (BESTA dictionary). So, teacher has to improve and should be never leave behind as these pupils keep on enhancing their English proficiency. 2.Teacher and Administration A teacher and administration is a normal thing in a teaching profession. The challenges are the documentations and how the management do their duties. We commonly hear about HEM, Ko KU and administration. A teacher can not run from this responsibility. Teacher and the pupils cater has a transformation where a school has their own application to keep the pupils information. The previous era, we used the KAD 001 and school registration book (commonly known as Buku Besar among teachers). Today we have SMM and other applications that we have to fill and complete the pupils details using those applications. They were provided by the Ministry of Education and supervised by the KPM. After that a teacher also has to manage the pupils charity where sometimes they give the money, guide their parents and manage all the pupils need in school. 3. Teacher as a human. As a teacher, I also have weaknesses. I sometimes forgot the teaching contents in the classroom. It will affect my teaching in the classroom. Sometimes I cannot focus on my teaching as I am also a father, husband and a son. Being a Muslim

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English teacher is not that easy as being a child. The responsibility of a man English teacher is different in Malaysia. During P&P, I sometimes failed to control emotion when the pupils do something that disturbed my lesson. As a teacher I am not going to ruin the lesson but I have to run the lesson nicely. A balance and healthy emotion is important to an English teacher as I have to encounter many challenges to teach a different language where there is no native speaker in my pupils neighbourhood. 4. Teacher and community. Basically we can divide this relationship into two. First, teacher and the school community like PIBG and the second one is teacher and their neighbourhood. Teacher and school community is a relationship between me as a teacher and the parents. Here I have to communicate and sometimes I joined a social programme organised by the school with cooperation among the parents. Teacher and their neighbourhood is a different thing where I build a relationship as neighbours in my living area. In this situation, normally I will talk about something out of the working environment and issue. A social development in the community is important where I as human who work and live in the community need a good and calm relationship. It is not that easy to take part in each community either in school community or in the neighbour hood. I have to do the extra classes, sports event and other programme organised by the school. It is compulsory to the teacher to get involve. Here, once again I have to spend the time correctly so that I can participate and develop a relationship between both communities. 5. Teacher and the methodology. Talking about methodology is something familiar to me as a teacher. The challenges are to change the method and to absorb the new ideas of methodology and also to implement it in the classroom. In the beginning of my carrier in teaching, the uses of IT is something unfamiliar in teaching. After a few years ICT is something common and me as a teacher has to improve my ICT skills. The teaching activities to the pupils with the ICT is also has to be improve. In a classroom where we have more than 30 pupils in a class, I have to organise the classroom management and change the method to be fair to all pupils who learn in different ways. Some pupils like to learn

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individually and some pupils like to learn in groups. To teach IT with varieties method (group/individual) take a high competence of a teacher.

6. Enhancing the teaching profession. Our employer, organized and sent me to many courses in order to enhance my skills and sometimes to revise the curriculum. Participate the courses is a big challenge to me after I back to work. To implement the contents in the courses has their own challenge. In school the facilities are not as good as we have in the courses centres. I attended a few courses such as English Enhancing Programme for rural school, Troubleshoot courses and curriculum revise courses. There were many things that I had learnt. The challenge is how I am going to improve my proficiency if I am not motivated to do that I have to do something to make sure that I will back on track. To overcome these weaknesses once again I have to motivate myself to enhance my level of competence and proficiency in teaching. 7. Teacher and transformation to ICT based. This challenge is all about the uses of IT application to my work as a teacher. Today, I have to uses many IT applications in my work. I can give an example, those applications are SMM, BMM, SISTEKS, SSDM, Sekolah Malaysia appilication, SAPS on others. Most people said that technology is to help. Based on my experience, yes IT is help but to make it complete and useful is not an easy work. As a teacher who has to teach, check the pupils work, do remedial and extra classes it is a challenge to use all the applications and fill in the information in school. I sometimes did the same work twice. Those applications are for records and administration (pupils cater). In teaching I have to use other ICT application such as ICTL for year 4 and 5, zoom A and the Niexus. The challenge is I have to spend a lot of time to ensure the pupils skilful and eager to use this ICT base learning. Lately I use facebook application to teach my pupils. It is just another method that I took to teach my pupils using the ICT based.

CONCLUSSION.

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Based on those 7 challenges that I faced, I have to do something so that I will be a good teacher. I also discover that nowadays teachers are completely different than the previous era. I hope that our employees and administration know how to manage those things smoothly because to me if there are to many responsibilities in work it will affect my teaching competence. It is like a burden to me to do all those things infact I have to put my priority is teaching in the classroom. Teacher happiness is number one pupils come number two because if the teacher happy go to work they will be more efficient and produce a good working environment. 1560 words End

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