PESANAN PENGETUA
EN CHIA SONG CHOI
Contextual Teaching
Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock (2001) have identified 9 research practices that improve student performance:
1. Identifying similarities & differences
2. Summarizing & note taking
3. Reinforcing effort & providing recognition
4. Homework & practice
5. Questions, cues & advance organizers
6. Non linguistic representation
7. Cooperative learning
8. Setting objectives & providing feedbacks
9. Generating & testing hypotheses.
Actually in Technical School like DAGANG, the most effective Teaching Strategy is CONTEXTUAL TEACHING!
Contextual teaching presents information in familiar contexts and in contexts in which the information is useful. Please answer 2 Questions before Teacher start teaching a lesson:
1. Why the students have to learn the lesson/the concepts?
2. What is it GOOD for? (How useful is the lesson/the concepts to students?)
Learning occurs BEST when learners process new information/knowledge in such a way that it makes SENSE to them in their OWN FRAMES of REFERENCE!
Physics Alive...
The Best Way to learn Physics is to CONNECT the Physics Concepts with the Real Life..Here are the examples:
1. The human ear is an incredibly sensitive instrument, able to detect sounds so faint that they move the eardrum only a microscopic distance (about 10^-11m; 0.1 Angstrom).
2. The human eye is similar to a camera in terms od optical bahaviour. The retina plays the same role as the film in a camera. The rods and cones in the retina act like an arry of miniature photocells. A typical human eye contains about 1.3x10^8 rods and 7x10^6 cones (sensitive to differences in color). Do you know that the rods can detect up to light intensity of single photon?
3.When a beam of white light shines on the reflective side of a CD, what do you see? Can you relate this phenomena to what you see on the beautiful living butterflies? What happens if the butterfly die? Can you see the beautiful color spectra anymore?
Reading in the holidays-The Most Beautiful....
Bought many books but hardly have time to read. Enjoy the precious time in the holidays by reading:
1. Poems: If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars...
2.Speeches: Duty, Honor, Country-Those 3 hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be..
3. Souls: Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds,. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds..
4. Family: Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts...
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living...
Please consult the School Librarians(PSS) I left a copy of the Book and the VCD there....
Magic 7
Physics deal with numbers and the most magical number is 7! I'm sure you know that there are 7 colors in the rainbow (ROYGBIV) and the longest wavelength is 7x10^-7m or 700nm for red light. There are 7 base quantities: Length, Mass, Time, Electrical Current, Temperature, Light Intensities, Amount of Substance-last 2 NOT in SPM Syllabus. There are also 7 types of Logical Gates-AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR, XNOR-again the last 2 NOT in SPM Syllabus. There are 7 days a week, 7 oceans in the Earth, 7 'holes' on our face (In Mandarin, when someone very angry, we say 'smokes from 7 holes') and James Bond secret code is 007! Do you know the 7 WONDERS of human being? To see, To hear, To touch, To taste, To feel, To laugh and most important TO LOVE!
MKRAs
Last Friday (21/8) attended Perhimpunan BPTV at Putrajaya. We were briefed on Minister Key Results Areas: 1. Membina Negara Bangsa 2. Membangunkan Modal Insan (Pra-Sekolah, 3M, Penyertaan Vok & Kemahiran) 3. Memperkasakan SK 4. Merapatkan Jurang (Semua Sekolah mendapat bekalan elektrik 24j) 5. Memartabatkan Profesion Keguruan (Bai'ah untuk Pengetua/G 6. Meloncatkan Kecemerlangan Institusi Pendidikan (100 Sekolah Berprestasi Tinggi) We must brainstorm 2, 5 and 6 ASAP!
NKRAs
Last week attended an interview at Putrajaya. The Panelists asked me to elaborate 3/6 NKRAs: Do you know the answers?
National Key Results Areas are the national goals/problems to be solved by our Government and the results will be judged by the Rakyat:
1. Jenayah 2. Rasuah 3. Infrastruktur Pedalaman 4. Pendidikan 5. Miskin Tegar 6. Pengangkutan.
Under Pendidikan: 4 Specific Goals: i. Pra-Sekolah ii. 3M iii. Sekolah Berprestasi Tinggi iv. Bai'ah untuk Pengetua/Guru Besar. So our roles is in iii and iv. Are we ready?
Mohon Restu Cikgu, Mohon Restu Ibubapa, Maafkan diri sendiri
Anak-anak yang akan menghadapi Peperiksaan tak lama lagi, rasa tension dan mula timbul masalah disiplin di dalam atau di luar sekolah. Saya rasa cukup sedih dan keciwa! Sentiasa tak dapat tidur malam kerana bimbang masa depan anak-anak ni! Sila dengarlah nasihat Cikgu Chia: The BEST way to release tensions is to solve the problems that cause the tensions! Jika anak-anak rasa tak bersedia dengan SPM, jumpalah Cikgu, rajin tanya! Cepat-cepat ulangkaji. JIka terlibat kes disiplin, proses penyiasatan, pembicaraan, jatuh hukuman.... semua ini banyak membuang masa dan MEMBAZIR tenaga Cikgu. Sehingga sekarang tak sempat ajar Physics lagi kerana hampir hari-hari ada kes disiplin dan terlalu banyak gangguan... Seya seru anak-anak sekalian insaf dan sedar; 3 kunci saya bagi anak-anak menjelang musim peperiksaan ni: 1. Mohon Restu Guru-Guru yang mengajar anda 2. Mohon RESTU ibubapa. 3. Maafkan diri-sendiri. Yang lepas dah jadi sejarah, bukan? Please START a NEW LIFE today! Winter is OVER; please SPRING into ACTIONS!
A letter from Class Monitor
Ayahanda, kali pertama saya masuk kelas Teknik, apa yang saya amat risau adalah Physics, Chemistry and Add Maths. Sekarang saya tak berapa takut sangat untuk berhadapan dengan Physics. Bila saya fikir balik, Physics ni tak adalah susah sangat just kita kena fikirkan dan bayangkan. Honestly apa yang Ayahanda mengajar amat-amat berbeza sekali dari Guru Kelas saya...lebih menarik, bertenaga dan bersemangat. Saya berasa perubahan ketara ialah apabila saya melihat sekeliling saya tahu" it relates to Physics!" Sebelum ni, saya ingat Physics cuma kira-kira dan teori semata-mata....Ayahandalah yang boleh membuat saya berfikir tentang apa yang berlaku disekeliling saya; bukan tengok saja! Learn with your experience is the BEST TEACHER! Sincerely, 5T1 Monitor
A letter that made me CRY....
Kepada Guruku yang dicintai...
Guruku, dirimu umpama lilin yang sanggup membakar diri siang dan malam demi menerangi orang lain. Kehadiranmu umpama matahari menyinari pagi. Siapakah diri anak ini tanpa mu? Kasih sayangmu padaku bak mutiara dunia yang sukar dijumpai.Pengorbananmu tidak dapat dibalas dengan wang dan emas! Ilmumu umpama bekas yang dipenuhi dengan inti. Anakanda ibarat tin kosong yang telah diisi dengan ilmu-ilmu yang dicurahkan. tanpalah mu disisi siapakah anak ini? Anakanda turut mensyukuri nikmat ni kerana Kelas Bimbingan malam ayahanda dan nasihat menjawab soalan-soalan merupakan madu di telapak tangan..... doakan kejayaan anakanda, restuilah anakanda di dalam peperiksaan SPM....Semoga ayahanda sihat selalu. We love U 4ever!
3 Rangkap Pantun-Hadiah dari Murid Saya
Pergi ke pasar membeli siakap,
Siakap dibeli dibawa balik;
Menjadi pelita di kala gelap,
Itulah Mr Chia seorang pendidik.
Pergi berjalan di tengah kota,
Masuk ke kedai membeli gelang;
Naik pangkat gembira tak terkata,
Iaitu Mr Chia Pengetua Cemerlang.
Sebelum saya mengundur diri,
Izinkan saya memohon ampun;
Jika ada perkataan terkena di hati,
Harap kesalahan dapat diampun.
Terima Kasih banyak-banyak anak-anak yang saya rindui, belajarlah bersungguh-sungguh. Tawaran RM 500/= A1 Physics masih SAH, tahu?
Isaac Newton
Another name I always talk about is Issac Newton. He was the 17th century prodigy, riding on the shoulders of giants (Aristotle, Coperniscus, Kepler, Descartes, Galileo etc) and correcting the giants where they were WRONG! His main ideas of Universal Gravitation and the Laws of Motion was accomplished at the age of 23-24 when The Cambridge University was shut down due to the Great Plague. Boys and Girls what are you doing when the school closed due to Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic?
Albert Einstein
As you may notice, as a Physics Teacher, I always talk about Albert Einstein-Person of the Century because his work touched the most important fields of technology: nuclear weapons,televisions,space travel, semiconductors and LASER. Many people blame the atomic bomb that exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Einstein because he discovered the relationship between mass and energy: E=mc^2. Can we blame Newton for the discovery of Gravity that causes airplanes to crash?When the Nazis came to power in Germany 1933, they started a campaign against Einstein.When told of publication of a book "100 Authors Against Einstein", he replied; Why 100? If I'm wrong, 1 is enough!
TIPS for PTK
Teachers at DAGANG must be very busy marking test papers and trying hard to prepare the coming PTK Exam. Here are some TIPs for you:
1. Try to distinguish between: Nilai, Norma dan Etika Profesion as School Teachers
2. Do you know differences in: Pendekatan dan Kaedah Pengajaran?
3. Please read and study ALL the documents in BUKU REKOD MENGAJAR.
4. Do you know the differences in: Harta Modal, Inventori dan Stok?
5. Do you know the different approaches in handling discipline cases of students: Educative, Preventive, Corrective and Curative measures?
The keys to PTK are APPLICATION, JOB-Based and Workplace. BEST of LUCK Warga DAGANG, YOU CAN DO IT!
Attending Wacana Pengetua Lestari Johor
Since Monday 10/8 I am very pleased and honoured to meet up with many new friends-Pengetua Cemerlang of Johore at a Hotel in B Pahat. I learnt and picked up a lot of new ideas, listen to inspiring and motivating speeches & sharing.... I am looking forward to coming back to share with our DAGANG Team as soon as possible. To Cikgu Kamari and our Aquarium Team, well done! Tahniah dan SYABAS! CHEERS!
Stand Taller, Look Further, Think Deeper
This slogan is modify version of famous Issac Newton: To stand on the shoulders of Giants.... I remember this slogan also use in The CS Wu Science Camp in Taiwan. Reading and life long learning attitudes are the keys to PTK; not the promotion and anjakan gaji! I hope the spirit of sharing good knowledge, the best practices, new creative and innovative ideas especially through our School Website will be benefited by ALL. CHEERS!
Why 1022?
Many teachers and students asked me why 1022 is my favourite magical number? In Physics many concepts are symmetrical. When an electron encounter a positron(the anti-particle for electron) a magnificent reaction called "Pair Annihilation" will occured with a production of 2 photons travelling in opposite directions. The energy of the 2 photons is 1.022 MeV! On the other hand, if a beam of 1.022 MeV radiation strike on a metal, a pair of electron-positron will be created!You may use the famous Einstein formula E=mc^2 to verify this. This reaction obeys the Principle of Conservation of momentum also! Both my house and car registration numbers are 1022!
Jangan Menyusahkan Orang Lain
How to manage a big school effectively? TEAMWORK is the answer! Together Everyone Achieve More. Each and everyone of us must carry out our own duties and most importantly don't disturb (MENYUSAHKAN) others! As the number of deaths from Infuenza A (H1N1) hit 12 and the number of infections continued to climb, ALL of us must adhere to STRICT PERSONAL HYGIENE and COUGH ETIQUETTE. We must maintain cleanliness in our School Compound. WHO declared 'Phase 6' meaning a global pendemic-there is no longer a way to STOP the spreading of H1N1 Virus! We must take care and increase our own personal body resistance againts the attack by H1N1 Virus.
