SBE 1

SCHOOL-BASED EXPERIENCE (SBE)
26/02/2007 (FIRST VISIT)

REFLECTION

Today was our first visit to SK Jalan Selangor 2 for SBE. Since it was on Monday, there was an assembly. It started off with speech from teacher who acted as a chairperson. The first agenda is the recitation of Negaraku, Selangor and the school song. After that was speech from Headmistress Puan Vigneswari. All of us (Idzwan, Kanesh, Suhaila and I) were introduced by her. Our Guru Pembimbing is Puan Vanitha.

After that pupils who are representing the school for Public Speaking competition have to rehearse in front of their friends to make give them ideas of speaking in front of the crowd and to overcome their nervousness. There were three pupils showing their talents performing story-telling to their friends. The stories are “Salji Putih” and “The history of Prophet Ilyas”.

We were brought to teachers’ room and we introduced ourselves to the teachers in the room. Some of them are warm and friendly and few of them could even hardly smile to us.

We were informed by the headmistress that the school will be hosting interschool Public Speaking competition. For this Friday, there will be singing competition but we won’t be there. Just now we were training the pupils to sing “You are my sunshine” with gesture, movement, facial expression and what not.

Most of the pupils are controllable but there are some of them who are quite naughty yet the brightest among their friends. I did my first mistake by smiling and be friendly to pupils. Suhaila told me to be stern and unfriendly but I just could not. Previously I was teaching college students. I was not stern. I was kind and very approachable. However, for this time, I guess I just have to change.

One significant incident that I would like to point out is when they communicate, Indian and Chinese would speak in English. But when it comes to Malay pupils, be it with Chinese or Indian, automatically they will communicate in Bahasa. It is the same phenomenon here.