Hi everyone...
We are now at the final stage of ramadhan - the last precious ten days of the month. Anyhow wish you well in finishing it.
Many of us wondering why in learning people now concern about learning through problem. Why is it so important? What was wrong with other types of learning? Or are we just following the trend?
Let me discuss a bit about this.
Yesterday I was talking with my kids about going to the "bazaar ramadhan" - a place which only comes up during ramadhan selling various kinds of "kuih". Their mom complaining about the idea what to have for fasting break. I think this is happening to all mothers that always making their own for break.
I was suggesting for us to go to the bazaar looking for idea or something that we can have for our fasting break. We agreed that it is hard to get some ideas what to have without going to the bazaar because by going we can see lot of choices of food and beverages. It is a real situation about what to have really. Eventually we managed to pick our choices for the break - lots!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is what I mean by real situation. After we went to the bazaar then we managed to decide what to have and why. But before that it was hard. We actually need a real situation for us make choices and decisions. In fact real situation make the learning fun and interesting. We need those food and beverages choices before we can make our own pick.
That is why problem-based learning is interesting. I am not saying that making decisions for food is not really a problem and cannot be categorised as problem-based learning. But what we need to understand is that in problem-based learning we should always strive to consider a real problem in the learning. Then we can make the learning fun and more meaningful.
Artificial problem can be helpful but not as meaningful as the real one. As such in helping children in their learning we should encourage them to learn through real situation and problems. The "simulation" stage will then be more interesting and effective for their learning.
We actually have thousands of real problem and incidents everyday that we can use for in encouraging our children's learning. It is just a matter of how we see the real life problems as part of the learning.
That's all for now.
Thank you.
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Sunday, 28 July 2013
"FITNAH" IN SOCIETY
Dear all readers,
May well always be with you all...
I feel sad about what has happened to the Headmaster of the SK Seri Pristana. I am sure not everyone happy about the issue - regardless of which side we were at. But for sure this isn't good for our education!!!!!!!!!!!
It seems that some of the parents nowadays does not really understand what is the school for, the purpose of having school in the society and alike. The understanding of the parents to their children education is at the brinks. The actions of arguing and blaming if we see from simple perspectives is just about concern about their children education. But if we look further and deeper it comes to a question whether the parents does really understand about the education and school. This is not good to our generation.
I would like to share a story about my friends. One day we have an argument about the teachers and schools. They said that teachers normally can not be trusted. And more over to what they argued, schools and teachers are hopeless and not capable. I always consider myself as a teacher, not because of I am teaching, but I have children my own. That is why I always consider myself as a teacher. As such I argued with them by saying that teachers are always honest and responsible to their teaching and the profession. Interestingly the argument becomes tense and cannot be controlled anymore. At the end I just made conclusion like this ..."if you think that you do not trust the teachers and the schools, and think that you guys are good enough in educating the children, I suggest you to take your children back home and educate them by yourself".... then the argument stopped.
In fact to me, we should understand the bond between teachers, parents, society and schools are suppose to be close. We should work together in ensuring the educational process of the children is done effectively. But what we have done is something different and unusual. Taking the SK Pristana as an example, we should look back to ourselves and start asking..."what type of parents are we"...until we dare to do such a thing to our children's school. I think I should say the same to these types of parents the same that I did before to my friends!!!!!! One thing that I think those parents should and must do is that to ask forgiveness from the school especially to the teachers of the wrong doing that they have committed. What ashamed.
To me it is not only about the capability of being a parent. I think I have mentioned this many times in my previous story about the requirement of being a parent. It is clear that those parents still lack in parenting skills. In other words they still need to learn how to become a parent. Or shall I say they actually does not have the capability of being a parent or they actually are not ready to become a parent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But what more dangerous about this is that the "fitnah". Prophet PBUH has reminded us about the dangerousness of the "fitnah" if we fail to control it. It is now become apparent that the "fitnah" is now become something common and what make it interesting is that people like to do it and they happy to do it.
How do we understand about "fitnah" really. Prophet PBUH clearly warned us that "fitnah" is more dangerous than killing. Killing others will only affect to that particular persons and his relatives. But "fitnah" can destroyed not just the people but the society, which including us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People now likes to spread story as they like to. Without any evidences they happily spread the untrue story as long to them it is true. And what make things worse is that, people tend to buy it, just like those parents at SK Seri Pristana.
There are many times we have seen or heard about one incident like car accident. It was told from one person to another that the car driver was dead at the scene instantly but in fact the things that dead was only the car engine!!!!!!!!!!! What a childish behaviour that we have now, failed to see between what is true and right and what is wrong and fake.
This is actually like I said earlier is not good for our children. They read the story, they heard the news and this is not good at all. Even telling something about the kids right in front of them is not encouraged. Do check back to what has been said in Islam as well as the learning theorists.....regarding the parenting issues...
I think that's all that I would like to say...
May Allah be always with us and guide us....
Thank you
May well always be with you all...
I feel sad about what has happened to the Headmaster of the SK Seri Pristana. I am sure not everyone happy about the issue - regardless of which side we were at. But for sure this isn't good for our education!!!!!!!!!!!
It seems that some of the parents nowadays does not really understand what is the school for, the purpose of having school in the society and alike. The understanding of the parents to their children education is at the brinks. The actions of arguing and blaming if we see from simple perspectives is just about concern about their children education. But if we look further and deeper it comes to a question whether the parents does really understand about the education and school. This is not good to our generation.
I would like to share a story about my friends. One day we have an argument about the teachers and schools. They said that teachers normally can not be trusted. And more over to what they argued, schools and teachers are hopeless and not capable. I always consider myself as a teacher, not because of I am teaching, but I have children my own. That is why I always consider myself as a teacher. As such I argued with them by saying that teachers are always honest and responsible to their teaching and the profession. Interestingly the argument becomes tense and cannot be controlled anymore. At the end I just made conclusion like this ..."if you think that you do not trust the teachers and the schools, and think that you guys are good enough in educating the children, I suggest you to take your children back home and educate them by yourself".... then the argument stopped.
In fact to me, we should understand the bond between teachers, parents, society and schools are suppose to be close. We should work together in ensuring the educational process of the children is done effectively. But what we have done is something different and unusual. Taking the SK Pristana as an example, we should look back to ourselves and start asking..."what type of parents are we"...until we dare to do such a thing to our children's school. I think I should say the same to these types of parents the same that I did before to my friends!!!!!! One thing that I think those parents should and must do is that to ask forgiveness from the school especially to the teachers of the wrong doing that they have committed. What ashamed.
To me it is not only about the capability of being a parent. I think I have mentioned this many times in my previous story about the requirement of being a parent. It is clear that those parents still lack in parenting skills. In other words they still need to learn how to become a parent. Or shall I say they actually does not have the capability of being a parent or they actually are not ready to become a parent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But what more dangerous about this is that the "fitnah". Prophet PBUH has reminded us about the dangerousness of the "fitnah" if we fail to control it. It is now become apparent that the "fitnah" is now become something common and what make it interesting is that people like to do it and they happy to do it.
How do we understand about "fitnah" really. Prophet PBUH clearly warned us that "fitnah" is more dangerous than killing. Killing others will only affect to that particular persons and his relatives. But "fitnah" can destroyed not just the people but the society, which including us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People now likes to spread story as they like to. Without any evidences they happily spread the untrue story as long to them it is true. And what make things worse is that, people tend to buy it, just like those parents at SK Seri Pristana.
There are many times we have seen or heard about one incident like car accident. It was told from one person to another that the car driver was dead at the scene instantly but in fact the things that dead was only the car engine!!!!!!!!!!! What a childish behaviour that we have now, failed to see between what is true and right and what is wrong and fake.
This is actually like I said earlier is not good for our children. They read the story, they heard the news and this is not good at all. Even telling something about the kids right in front of them is not encouraged. Do check back to what has been said in Islam as well as the learning theorists.....regarding the parenting issues...
I think that's all that I would like to say...
May Allah be always with us and guide us....
Thank you
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
CHOICES IN LIFE
Hi everyone,
Meet again in another interesting topic. As we know that in everyday life we need to make choices.
Regardless of how the choice will be it will make us happy or otherwise for sure.
I went to the hospital last week to assist my cousin for his follow-up medical check-cup. Not so often for me to go to that hospital as I normally utilised my panel clinic.
It seems like I had gone back to the years when I was a kid. Hospital as usual, full of people with various nature. Some were busy waiting for their turn, some others waiting for their medicine, and others with their own reasons which I am not really known to.
It gives me a big question mark in my head. Whats wrong with the hospital? Is it considered as normal - hospital must full of people waiting? Not enough doctor that make them waiting? Or many other questions that people like me as a layman would think of.
This was also reminded me to the time when I brought my father for his follow-up medical check-up in 2003. He was told to come for the appointment, I can't really remember what day and when, if I am not mistaken it was on monday morning for the specialist. When we get there it was really disappointed day. The counter just simply said that the specialist has not arrived from KL and we need to comeback on the next day.
And here again we come on the next day early in the morning with the thinking to avoid many people because the counter was only said for us to come back in the morning. My father was suffering lung cancer and barely to stay still because of the pain I guessed. And again we need to wait for the number to be called. Person by person entering the room for their turn. Until the afternoon we were waiting and finally the nurse said it is lunch time and we need to come back after that.
So we wait again until after lunch and finally my father managed to see the doctor. Interestingly it took only about 10 minutes for the specialist doctor to do the check-up before he told my father to comeback another 6 month for further check-up (unfortunately my father was passed away few months after that before he got the chance to come for the check-up). It is really sad for me. One thing I learned is that to get that precious 10 minutes requires patients and courage.
Back to what I have said earlier I think those who really interested of becoming a doctor need to consider their decision deeply. The objectives, the way they perceive the profession, and more importantly is that how they see the bond between the doctor and the patients.Sometimes because of monetary issues. Even my son did mention this - "I want to be a doctor because I can get thousands of ringgit every month". Funny huh...but this can be amended from time to time. I would say to those who really interested in going into this field should consider their objectives deeply and thoroughly.
To me it is more about responsibilities. I have heard a story where a student who passed his medical doctor did not want to work as a doctor but he opted to be a teacher. The doctor scroll is for his mother not for him and finally he had become an excellent teacher at his school.
Lesson that can be taken from this is that what ever we choose and what ever we decide it is always about responsibilities. With honesty we can venture what it means by responsibility.
To my young medical doctor programme candidates I wish you all the best and be the best of you. A little smile from one single patients hopefully will be a biiiiiiiiig smile of you guys.
Thank you for reading and take care...
See you soon.
Meet again in another interesting topic. As we know that in everyday life we need to make choices.
Regardless of how the choice will be it will make us happy or otherwise for sure.
I went to the hospital last week to assist my cousin for his follow-up medical check-cup. Not so often for me to go to that hospital as I normally utilised my panel clinic.
It seems like I had gone back to the years when I was a kid. Hospital as usual, full of people with various nature. Some were busy waiting for their turn, some others waiting for their medicine, and others with their own reasons which I am not really known to.
It gives me a big question mark in my head. Whats wrong with the hospital? Is it considered as normal - hospital must full of people waiting? Not enough doctor that make them waiting? Or many other questions that people like me as a layman would think of.
This was also reminded me to the time when I brought my father for his follow-up medical check-up in 2003. He was told to come for the appointment, I can't really remember what day and when, if I am not mistaken it was on monday morning for the specialist. When we get there it was really disappointed day. The counter just simply said that the specialist has not arrived from KL and we need to comeback on the next day.
And here again we come on the next day early in the morning with the thinking to avoid many people because the counter was only said for us to come back in the morning. My father was suffering lung cancer and barely to stay still because of the pain I guessed. And again we need to wait for the number to be called. Person by person entering the room for their turn. Until the afternoon we were waiting and finally the nurse said it is lunch time and we need to come back after that.
So we wait again until after lunch and finally my father managed to see the doctor. Interestingly it took only about 10 minutes for the specialist doctor to do the check-up before he told my father to comeback another 6 month for further check-up (unfortunately my father was passed away few months after that before he got the chance to come for the check-up). It is really sad for me. One thing I learned is that to get that precious 10 minutes requires patients and courage.
Back to what I have said earlier I think those who really interested of becoming a doctor need to consider their decision deeply. The objectives, the way they perceive the profession, and more importantly is that how they see the bond between the doctor and the patients.Sometimes because of monetary issues. Even my son did mention this - "I want to be a doctor because I can get thousands of ringgit every month". Funny huh...but this can be amended from time to time. I would say to those who really interested in going into this field should consider their objectives deeply and thoroughly.
To me it is more about responsibilities. I have heard a story where a student who passed his medical doctor did not want to work as a doctor but he opted to be a teacher. The doctor scroll is for his mother not for him and finally he had become an excellent teacher at his school.
Lesson that can be taken from this is that what ever we choose and what ever we decide it is always about responsibilities. With honesty we can venture what it means by responsibility.
To my young medical doctor programme candidates I wish you all the best and be the best of you. A little smile from one single patients hopefully will be a biiiiiiiiig smile of you guys.
Thank you for reading and take care...
See you soon.
Monday, 22 July 2013
ABANDONING OR LEAVING
Hi everyone...
Meet again.
We have been struck with very sad yet disappointing news lately in the news about little kids died because of choking in the car. It is very very disappointed incidents really.
Sometimes we tend to forget that the little kids are always require supervision. What ever they do, or think, or even speak they need to be supervised and guided. Without close supervision that could misled or any serious things like this to happen.
There are several issues that we can propose in discussing these incidents. I would like to explore in two fundamental issues.
Firstly, is about our capability of becoming a parent to a child (children). Now it is clear that to become a parent is not just about giving them food, shelter, clothes, but it is more. Look back to what Islam has to say about it. Being a parent means everything. It is about "amanah". When we use this word it implies many thing.
How ready we are before becoming a parent, or even before we get married. It need skills though to make us really capable enough to be a person called father or mother. In every occasion we need to be well equipped with the parenting skills. Knowledge about child development for instance is crucial to us because that can tell us about how the child is develop. In fact there is no reason for us to say "it is not so important" since we requires that in bringing them up.
Allow me to relate the incidents by looking back to the child development. How do we get to know that 3 years of age children able to do what ever an adult do. The child might be able to open the door by themselves if we ask them to. I think we know this very well and in fact we always ask them to do by themselves at home after comes back from shopping for example. But how do we know that they also able to open the door if they need to.
Being left in the car make them choked. How do we educate them when in that situation the simplest thing to do is to open the door to let the air flow. At this stage actually they still yet to develop that kind of thinking ability - relating one situation to another in solving specific problem like choking!!!!
We need to understand this, their thinking ability and so on.
Secondly, which words are more appropriate in referring to these incidents. I have two suggestions anyway - "abandoning" or "leaving". Although it is quite similar in terms of meaning, but taking the children's thinking ability the meaning brings different understanding. It depends on how we see the situations really - the parent's actions and attitudes toward the behaviour, whether their action can be classify as abandoning or leaving the kids in the car. Do they really understand their roles and responsibilities!!!!!!!!!
Taking this situation into context it is clear that being a parent requires us to equip ourselves with several fundamental skills that the parent should have. It means that every single of individuals need to make sure they have the skills long before they start to think to get married. Lack of information should not be an issue anymore because all can be acquired easily nowadays. Information can be accessed easily, bookstore just around street, formal and informal courses are also available.
Just for deep personal consideration I guess....
We just don't want to regret to something bad just because of our carelessness and ignorance. Be a wise person before we can start thinking of producing another wise person.
As what Prophet PBUH has always did...wise person will only be developed from another wise person!!!!!!!!!
Thank you.
Meet again.
We have been struck with very sad yet disappointing news lately in the news about little kids died because of choking in the car. It is very very disappointed incidents really.
Sometimes we tend to forget that the little kids are always require supervision. What ever they do, or think, or even speak they need to be supervised and guided. Without close supervision that could misled or any serious things like this to happen.
There are several issues that we can propose in discussing these incidents. I would like to explore in two fundamental issues.
Firstly, is about our capability of becoming a parent to a child (children). Now it is clear that to become a parent is not just about giving them food, shelter, clothes, but it is more. Look back to what Islam has to say about it. Being a parent means everything. It is about "amanah". When we use this word it implies many thing.
How ready we are before becoming a parent, or even before we get married. It need skills though to make us really capable enough to be a person called father or mother. In every occasion we need to be well equipped with the parenting skills. Knowledge about child development for instance is crucial to us because that can tell us about how the child is develop. In fact there is no reason for us to say "it is not so important" since we requires that in bringing them up.
Allow me to relate the incidents by looking back to the child development. How do we get to know that 3 years of age children able to do what ever an adult do. The child might be able to open the door by themselves if we ask them to. I think we know this very well and in fact we always ask them to do by themselves at home after comes back from shopping for example. But how do we know that they also able to open the door if they need to.
Being left in the car make them choked. How do we educate them when in that situation the simplest thing to do is to open the door to let the air flow. At this stage actually they still yet to develop that kind of thinking ability - relating one situation to another in solving specific problem like choking!!!!
We need to understand this, their thinking ability and so on.
Secondly, which words are more appropriate in referring to these incidents. I have two suggestions anyway - "abandoning" or "leaving". Although it is quite similar in terms of meaning, but taking the children's thinking ability the meaning brings different understanding. It depends on how we see the situations really - the parent's actions and attitudes toward the behaviour, whether their action can be classify as abandoning or leaving the kids in the car. Do they really understand their roles and responsibilities!!!!!!!!!
Taking this situation into context it is clear that being a parent requires us to equip ourselves with several fundamental skills that the parent should have. It means that every single of individuals need to make sure they have the skills long before they start to think to get married. Lack of information should not be an issue anymore because all can be acquired easily nowadays. Information can be accessed easily, bookstore just around street, formal and informal courses are also available.
Just for deep personal consideration I guess....
We just don't want to regret to something bad just because of our carelessness and ignorance. Be a wise person before we can start thinking of producing another wise person.
As what Prophet PBUH has always did...wise person will only be developed from another wise person!!!!!!!!!
Thank you.
DISHEARTENED
Hi folks,
It has been long I guess....my absence from writing.
Though it is not too late I presume to wish all Muslims a Happy Fasting of Ramadhan. May this year's Ramadhan will give more as compared to the previous one.
I felt disheartened again and again. And it happened everyday on my way to work.
People cutting ques without any conscience at all. Sometimes this is not good at all to myself - feeling sad everyday not because of me but by others, unfair is it. Being sad because of other people.
Actually we should understand that in terms of learning, this isn't very good. I think I have mentioned this many times - learning through example, as what has been practiced by Prophet PBUH. When people start thinking that they have been utilised, victimised, cheated, the tendency to overcome the problem by doing the same thing is higher. If this thing happened over and over again it will creates a piece of understanding to do the same thing in the heart.
In other words we actually encouraging bad habits (in this example cutting the ques) among people. One day they will develop that intention and don't be surprise on the other day the man who always observing the rule by lining up in the ques will commit cutting ques. Because of the frustration of being cheated they finally doing the same thing as a source of personal satisfaction.
This is sad actually. Islam has clearly stated that even taking away sticks and twigs from the walking path is always be encouraged. But what have we did here is something away from that principles. We are not taking away anything but putting more problems on the street.
Imagine these connections is learned by the youngsters. Its going to be a never ending story. The road life will never be safe anymore. No fun at all for learning.
Just a thought....
Thank you.
It has been long I guess....my absence from writing.
Though it is not too late I presume to wish all Muslims a Happy Fasting of Ramadhan. May this year's Ramadhan will give more as compared to the previous one.
I felt disheartened again and again. And it happened everyday on my way to work.
People cutting ques without any conscience at all. Sometimes this is not good at all to myself - feeling sad everyday not because of me but by others, unfair is it. Being sad because of other people.
Actually we should understand that in terms of learning, this isn't very good. I think I have mentioned this many times - learning through example, as what has been practiced by Prophet PBUH. When people start thinking that they have been utilised, victimised, cheated, the tendency to overcome the problem by doing the same thing is higher. If this thing happened over and over again it will creates a piece of understanding to do the same thing in the heart.
In other words we actually encouraging bad habits (in this example cutting the ques) among people. One day they will develop that intention and don't be surprise on the other day the man who always observing the rule by lining up in the ques will commit cutting ques. Because of the frustration of being cheated they finally doing the same thing as a source of personal satisfaction.
This is sad actually. Islam has clearly stated that even taking away sticks and twigs from the walking path is always be encouraged. But what have we did here is something away from that principles. We are not taking away anything but putting more problems on the street.
Imagine these connections is learned by the youngsters. Its going to be a never ending story. The road life will never be safe anymore. No fun at all for learning.
Just a thought....
Thank you.
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