This is an essay that my mom asked me to do for her during the semester 3 break, for the "Man" - headmistress' evaluation regarding the KSSR teachings. I pity her for being so busy and refused to be helped while I'm around, so I volunteered to perform it for her. Aided her in correcting hundreds of exercise books, charts, letter typing, etc. Really, even when I'm treated like that, I'm still unmoved by the commotion. How ironic...
Most Significant Change in KSSR Implementation
Kurikulum Standard Sekolah
Rendah , or KSSR in abbreviation, is another effort done by the Education
Ministry under the control of the Federal Government in order to further
improve the current state of the education sector towards a point where it is
more adhering and competitive with the international standards. Like PPSMI that had been improvised
previously, KSSR is an evolution of KBSR that had been done prior 1980’s as a
standard measurement to properly elevate the education aspects for the primary
students. To be exact, KSSR is the improved
version of its previous counterpart KBSR (Kurikulum Bersepadu Sekolah Rendah)
and had been introduced 2 years ago along with several other devised
improvement for the primary schools.
Government had been carrying out
various plans and revolution in an effort to raise the standards of Malaysian
academics to be equal on par with the other developing countries. It could be said that Malaysia is achieving
that baseline that had been stated during the independence period, which is to
ensure that its citizens could receive academics with an equal exposure and
quality. One of the objectives that
could be enforced in the implementation if KSSR is by far the primary and most
important one, which is to improve the teaching of English in the education
sectors. So far, like PPSMI, the
government had improvised the importance of English as a universal language,
and therefore must be enforced in our education aspects. Various methods had been included to make
sure that the program could achieve its pinnacle of success, such as by
organizing extra classes for those students in need, using English as the main
medium of deliverance for subjects deemed critical (Science and Mathematics),
giving various incentives for educators that are successful in applying English
as a teaching medium and student improvement, and etc. By using English as a medium of teaching
students from a tender age (7-12 years old), they could be exposed with the
proper usage of this language not just from the basic usage such as nouns and
proper sentence construction, they could actually apply this norm into their
daily lives so as to slowly have a liking towards the language itself, besides
encouraging the usage of another language beside their own mother tongue prior
from their development stage until they enter adolescence period.
Along with the importance of
practicing English in their daily lives, the students could step-by-step
improve their proficiency of using English as a communicative language. In this context, students are moved by the
intention of using English to enhance their communication experience with the
society members. In a society where
there could be more usage of diversified language such as Malaysia,, from the
exposure of learning English students could actually improve their
communication skills. Because there
might be possibilities that other races couldn’t speak languages that they
acknowledge, English is the bridging language for all communities as it could
connect everyone well with the usage of one single language alone. Everyone won’t be mixed with feelings and
could comprehend between themselves well.
This could in turn bring an improvement in racial relationships. There won’t be any misconceptions that could
be easily be caused should one individual insists on enforcing the usage of his
own mother tongue to communicate with everyone.
From the student’s point of view, the learning of a standardized
language such as English which is used widely and primarily around the globe
could actually improve their intellectual skills. As studies had proven, individuals who know
more communicative language show a higher tendency of peaked intellectual
quotient. So, it could be said that
English is the language that may propel their further development in the
societies.
As resource materials widely implements the usage of English
as a medium of explanation whether graphical or text, learning of English could
improve the abilities to inquire for resources in teaching English. It is not a mistake for strengthening one’s own
understanding into knowledge by acquiring the materials from a language that
they could comprehend and engulf, but should they could receive it from the
other language, it will be a massive improvement towards themselves. For example, in the Malaysian’s education
sectors itself, in order to pursue higher studies such as Masters and
Philosophical Doctorate (PHD), research materials used are not limited from the
scope of within the countries itself but in a range of worldwide. Therefore, with a limited ability to
understand the very basics of English itself, it would be a lot of hassle for
students to obtain their desired materials.
The same case goes to students, as they will be encountering more usage
of English in their future themselves.
It is vital for them to learn the core of English itself so that their
efforts to search for study materials such as textbook and reference materials
could be less of an effort. It would be
better if the students could learn more from not just the deliverance of knowledge
within the class hours, so that their information acceptance could be broadly widen,
besides improving their competitive skills in the later future.
Learning is an essential process to sustain our ongoing
development. Via learning English, it
could be claimed that the future development of individuals could be well-balanced
besides being pinpointed towards a brighter pathway ahead. As widely acknowledged by whole, the world,
no matter where it is in the globe is using English alongside with their own
mother tongue language in an effort to further multiply their productive
skills. As a few giant dominating
countries such as the America, Britain and Australia are using this language as
their primary one, it is a must for us to be able to obtain some motivation to
learn the language itself in order to improve our continued development. Without a firm understanding and belief in
the actual knowledge that propels these countries towards the pinnacle that
they’ve achieved long time ago until today, it may be that our effort to
compete with them with the so-called “our own identity”, which is our own mother
tongue language may proven futile.
Therefore, it is important that youths nowadays are exposed with the
ideality of taking in the learning of English seriously so that they could
improve themselves from a whole. From a
more careful effort and rapport of learning English, they could actually implement
it in their lives so that what they learn previously could be applied together
with what they perceived as right during their studies. This could aid in their ongoing development
process towards becoming a less defected individual.
In a nutshell, the learning of English which is criticized
widely in the implementation of KSSR is an effort by the government that could
be praised besides must be sustained for a static period of time to ensure that
what it actually targets to achieve could somehow become a reality. In comparison with the PPSMI conducted by the
government in the early 2003 that had been recently deemed unsuccessful by a
lot of parents nationwide, the effort of KSSR in implementing the importance
of English usage in the school
curriculum should be given a critical attention and continuous aid towards ensuring
that its planning could become a successful one not for the students
themselves, but towards the society members and the individual that maintains
the effort themselves, which is the educators themselves.
<Mentioned it already, I've done everything for them. Only after
reading it and praised by her colleagues, then she finally recognizes my
ability. Even asked if I copied it somewhere. Go figure with that.
After all this while, she and that "beast" thought I'm a dumb toddler.
Well, managed to demonstrate it to them anyway. Under their supervision
(WITH the guy's constant monitoring, fazed by my typing speed), I manage to complete it in 30 minutes. It's the only thing that makes me proud of myself. Ignore the details. Just feel like abandoning the sad motives within me for an entry's worth.>
Continue "sad"-ding next time.
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