In house....

These days we've to sit through 7 days of Kursus Dalam Perkhidmatan. Objective? Supposed to keep us abreast with the latest. But it's generally boring and uninteresting due to many reasons... speakers, our own attitude and the kursus itself. Once in a while we do get good speakers but these are far and few.... very. And in order to make up the 7 days, even whole day meetings are counted.

Anyway, just had one on Monday!

Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Berkesan / Pengurusan Panitia.... that was what the kursus was supposed to be about. Well, the speaker had impressive enough credentials... JUSA... guru cemerlang. The intro wasn't impressive though. First, he was 15 minutes late. Then he spent 15 minutes introducing himself. Half an hour gone! Hardly a good start. And we were made to understand that he draws a really fat salary.... over 15K, what we were told. Who says teaching does not pay well?? 8)

We were told that he is a busy man... going around most of the time. What's a cemerlang teacher doing out of school so much? Teachers who are promoted to the super scale for their expertise in their subjects... aren't they to stay in school so that the students benefit? Well, one could argue that he should share his experiences and expertise. But the thing that seemed to stand out is this... we promote a teacher because he can teach well... but in the end he doesn't seem to spend a lot of time in school teaching. How's that for the guru cemerlang thingy?

The content of the course.... nothing extraordinary. I probably sound like a wet blanket but I think I can find more inspiring stuff from the Net. His PowerPoint presentation was rather bland... sure there were lots of P Ramlee clips but it's not something that connected well with me. And I am a fan of P Ramlee. And he went on and on about Geography... which most of us don't teach. I noticed a few in the audience nodding and dozing off, plenty of others were grading their mid term exam papers.... but the following day, many were gushing about how good he was. Duh! You mean the ears were fully tune despite the sleep and grading?

2 hours of sitting there... one afternoon wasted! .... such is our motivational sessions...