i left out one of the documents and i will be not interviewed if i don't have that paper. Thank God there's this specky boy with my type of 'tigerish' canine doing his practical in the Pejabat Pelajaran Daerah and he helped me to search from the JPA website and print out the pages. It saved me the trouble of walking to the nearby cyber cafe. I truly appreciated his effort walking up and down trying to get it done for me. *awwwww*
i was the 6th person to be interviewed, the first among the 3 of us from my school. the night before, i was trying to remember some lines of the school song and the sabah song, at the same time trying to read a little bit more about the whatever NKRA, NEM, PIPP stuff... gosh...
My interview lasted for 30minutes. I went in to the room, there were two chairs. Now thinking back, i laughed at my stupidity for being indecisive of which chair to sit on, the nearer one, or the one further away from the interviewer. haha, whatever. The interviewer is quite a nice person and the way he interacted with me really helped me to be less nervous. He started off by asking me the meaning of my name. I was like, ok, and told him la the meaning of my name.
Jia stands for something that is good, something praise-worthy.
and Hui stands for wisdom, knowledge. *teehee*
Then he asked me to introduce myself. easy. done. then he jokingly asked me is it because i don't have good moral values that i got A2 for Pendidikan Moral and it became the spoiler of my SPM results. Haha. Of coz i have to give smart answers - i told him that the marking scheme of Pendidikan Moral is VERY STRICT. You can't get full marks even if you only missed out a single word or replaced the word with something else, and probably that's the reason i didnt get a A1 for it. Haha, I bet he was happy with that answer. the interview started in BM, then as usual there's a mixture of BM and BI, and in the end, most of the time we were speaking in english. *hallelujah*
I told him what subjects i teach in school. He asked me how are the form 4 students in their biology. So, of coz i answered him as honest as i can - they generally have no problem understanding the topics but they have great problem understanding the questions and giving accurate answers to the questions, simply because their english is not good enough.
By now, you can predict the next question he raised up: do you agree with the teaching of science and math in english?
Jia: Personally, i think PPSMI should be continue in secondary schools, if not all levels, because that provides a continuation for students as they move up to matriculation, form 6 and university. However, i must say that it's not easy, esp after comparing my experience here with those i had during teaching practice in SMK Sri Aman.
Haih, i think he is against PPSMI and he gave me his piece of mind, but in a good way. He said i was lucky to come from a good school *he knows how hebat my ipoh schools are*, did teaching practice in a High Performance School, and now teaching in residential school *which is supposed to be good, [emphasis added by me in my heart]*. And he commented on my english, saying that i have no problem in english although i was from chinese school and studied science and maths in BM.
Actually I do agree with him. Learning science and maths in english in a way does give negative effects on some students. It slows down their progress in those subjects. I realised this problem of PPSMI after i started teaching here.
Lalalalala... *gotcha, jia is trapped....*
Thank God i managed to cover that part by stating that i put in a lot of effort to work on my english and i have a few good english teachers, and the 6 years plus of PPSMI was not a wasted effort *gah, in one sense, it wasn't a wasted effort la* Indeed, the english teachers play a very important role and the students should also play their part by taking initiative to improve their english.
After some sharing of comments on PPSMI, he moved to current issues and we talked about students' discipline problems and moral issues. OK la that one. I told him my point of view, that kekuatan iman will bring good fruits, not bad fruits, and perhaps that is one of the areas we can try working on to curb the problems. Then he went on with the issue about smoking. I told him honestly that i find this disturbing - teachers in school discourage students from smoking and yet they are the ones smoking in the teacher's toilet. He agreed and said even the menteri-s are also like that. I made my last point by telling him ---- there are a few students who came and told me that they tried to encourage their parents to quit smoking, and perhaps that is a good start to all the effort done for anti-smoking stuff.
*done, i rest my case*
He smiled and agreed. He shook my hand, i thanked him and i walked out the room tonnes lighter than half an hour ago.
i was the 6th person to be interviewed, the first among the 3 of us from my school. the night before, i was trying to remember some lines of the school song and the sabah song, at the same time trying to read a little bit more about the whatever NKRA, NEM, PIPP stuff... gosh...
My interview lasted for 30minutes. I went in to the room, there were two chairs. Now thinking back, i laughed at my stupidity for being indecisive of which chair to sit on, the nearer one, or the one further away from the interviewer. haha, whatever. The interviewer is quite a nice person and the way he interacted with me really helped me to be less nervous. He started off by asking me the meaning of my name. I was like, ok, and told him la the meaning of my name.
Jia stands for something that is good, something praise-worthy.
and Hui stands for wisdom, knowledge. *teehee*
Then he asked me to introduce myself. easy. done. then he jokingly asked me is it because i don't have good moral values that i got A2 for Pendidikan Moral and it became the spoiler of my SPM results. Haha. Of coz i have to give smart answers - i told him that the marking scheme of Pendidikan Moral is VERY STRICT. You can't get full marks even if you only missed out a single word or replaced the word with something else, and probably that's the reason i didnt get a A1 for it. Haha, I bet he was happy with that answer. the interview started in BM, then as usual there's a mixture of BM and BI, and in the end, most of the time we were speaking in english. *hallelujah*
I told him what subjects i teach in school. He asked me how are the form 4 students in their biology. So, of coz i answered him as honest as i can - they generally have no problem understanding the topics but they have great problem understanding the questions and giving accurate answers to the questions, simply because their english is not good enough.
By now, you can predict the next question he raised up: do you agree with the teaching of science and math in english?
Jia: Personally, i think PPSMI should be continue in secondary schools, if not all levels, because that provides a continuation for students as they move up to matriculation, form 6 and university. However, i must say that it's not easy, esp after comparing my experience here with those i had during teaching practice in SMK Sri Aman.
Haih, i think he is against PPSMI and he gave me his piece of mind, but in a good way. He said i was lucky to come from a good school *he knows how hebat my ipoh schools are*, did teaching practice in a High Performance School, and now teaching in residential school *which is supposed to be good, [emphasis added by me in my heart]*. And he commented on my english, saying that i have no problem in english although i was from chinese school and studied science and maths in BM.
Actually I do agree with him. Learning science and maths in english in a way does give negative effects on some students. It slows down their progress in those subjects. I realised this problem of PPSMI after i started teaching here.
Lalalalala... *gotcha, jia is trapped....*
Thank God i managed to cover that part by stating that i put in a lot of effort to work on my english and i have a few good english teachers, and the 6 years plus of PPSMI was not a wasted effort *gah, in one sense, it wasn't a wasted effort la* Indeed, the english teachers play a very important role and the students should also play their part by taking initiative to improve their english.
After some sharing of comments on PPSMI, he moved to current issues and we talked about students' discipline problems and moral issues. OK la that one. I told him my point of view, that kekuatan iman will bring good fruits, not bad fruits, and perhaps that is one of the areas we can try working on to curb the problems. Then he went on with the issue about smoking. I told him honestly that i find this disturbing - teachers in school discourage students from smoking and yet they are the ones smoking in the teacher's toilet. He agreed and said even the menteri-s are also like that. I made my last point by telling him ---- there are a few students who came and told me that they tried to encourage their parents to quit smoking, and perhaps that is a good start to all the effort done for anti-smoking stuff.
*done, i rest my case*
He smiled and agreed. He shook my hand, i thanked him and i walked out the room tonnes lighter than half an hour ago.
