Education promise for the future, teachers told
Superteachers: Dr Mohammad Shukri Abdullah (L) and Muhammad Fitri Dr Muhammad (R), the two motivational speakers who conducted the course. Picture: Debbie Too
Friday, January 25, 2008
TEACHERS who attended the Super Teaching seminar at the Berakas Sixth Form Centre, have changed their perspective on conventional teaching methods.
"New ideas should be incorporated into lessons because students now lose their concentration very easily," said Dr Mohd Shukri Abdullah. His concept that lesson teaching and learning should contain the three Fs fun, fast and fulfilling is based on his theory that there are no stupid students, only students who don't understand.
"It is the teacher's job to be creative in delivering their lessons, because students are easily distracted and they lose interest easily, teachers should try different approaches in their teaching," he said. According to Dr Shukri, teachers have to get rid of the idea that learning has to be serious. "They cannot stick to conventional methods. I believe that teachers should be exposed to this idea, and take this seminar as a refresher course," he said, adding that the methods of teaching and learning last time has changed over the years and that it also depends where the students are from.
"A rural school and an urban school would hold different sets of students, so the teaching methods have to suit them," he added. He then talked about a teacher in Brunei who told him that he used to teach like a robot, just to finish his lesson plans and he never cared about whether the students understood or not.
"After telling me this he said that he realised that it is his mistake to have that idea, and that he needed to change his teaching method to be more human for his students to understand," said Dr Shukri.
Dr Shukri tells teachers to change their teaching methods, and during his seminar, he not only incorporates fun light discussions among teachers, but he shows them movie clips and adds songs to deliver his point.
"Teachers who were assigned to come here by their schools and the Ministry of Education have said that they are glad that they came, not because they had fun, but they now see things in a new light," he said.
He bases his teaching methods on two of his favourite quotes, "If students do not learn the way we teach them, then let us teach them the way they learn", from Ignacio Estrada and "A child who is miseducated is a child lost," from President Kennedy. He said that education is the most important investment for a country.
"Ultimately, for every country to develop, they must develop their young people, and through teaching and learning, education becomes a promise for the future," he said, adding that one of the issues that teachers usually raise during his seminars is that the schools they teach in are lacking resources.
"That happens everywhere around the world, and compared to third world countries, they are much better off. This shouldn't be their main problem as the problem does not lie with the schools, the students or the institutes, it lies within the teachers themselves," he said.
The Brunei Times
"New ideas should be incorporated into lessons because students now lose their concentration very easily," said Dr Mohd Shukri Abdullah. His concept that lesson teaching and learning should contain the three Fs fun, fast and fulfilling is based on his theory that there are no stupid students, only students who don't understand.
"It is the teacher's job to be creative in delivering their lessons, because students are easily distracted and they lose interest easily, teachers should try different approaches in their teaching," he said. According to Dr Shukri, teachers have to get rid of the idea that learning has to be serious. "They cannot stick to conventional methods. I believe that teachers should be exposed to this idea, and take this seminar as a refresher course," he said, adding that the methods of teaching and learning last time has changed over the years and that it also depends where the students are from.
"A rural school and an urban school would hold different sets of students, so the teaching methods have to suit them," he added. He then talked about a teacher in Brunei who told him that he used to teach like a robot, just to finish his lesson plans and he never cared about whether the students understood or not.
"After telling me this he said that he realised that it is his mistake to have that idea, and that he needed to change his teaching method to be more human for his students to understand," said Dr Shukri.
Dr Shukri tells teachers to change their teaching methods, and during his seminar, he not only incorporates fun light discussions among teachers, but he shows them movie clips and adds songs to deliver his point.
"Teachers who were assigned to come here by their schools and the Ministry of Education have said that they are glad that they came, not because they had fun, but they now see things in a new light," he said.
He bases his teaching methods on two of his favourite quotes, "If students do not learn the way we teach them, then let us teach them the way they learn", from Ignacio Estrada and "A child who is miseducated is a child lost," from President Kennedy. He said that education is the most important investment for a country.
"Ultimately, for every country to develop, they must develop their young people, and through teaching and learning, education becomes a promise for the future," he said, adding that one of the issues that teachers usually raise during his seminars is that the schools they teach in are lacking resources.
"That happens everywhere around the world, and compared to third world countries, they are much better off. This shouldn't be their main problem as the problem does not lie with the schools, the students or the institutes, it lies within the teachers themselves," he said.
The Brunei Times
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