We have visited a special needs vocational school at Shah Alam which is named as Sekolah Menengah Pendidikan Khas Vokasional Shah Alam. That was my first experience going to a special needs school. It was a good experience and exposure to me. Ms Pravina, one of the teacher from that school welcome all of us.
The school cater different disability children such as Deaf, Slow learners, Blind, Physically Disable, and so on. When i went into the school, the first thing that i observe is all the students interact using sign language. They use KTBM ( Kod Tangan Bahasa Malaysia) to interact which is a Malaysian sign language. This sign language is taught in special needs schools in Malaysia.
First of all, we went into the meeting room of the school to hear welcome speech from the principal of Sekolah Menengah Pendidikan Khas Vokasional Shah Alam. After that, we had a Q&A session with Ms Pravina and Ms Saras, they are the teachers from that school. But Ms Saras has more teaching experience, if i am not mistaken it is more than 5 years. During the Q&A session, everyone from Nottingham was shocked to hear the word that utter by the teacher. She refers the children there using double D words. I think that maybe the teacher have difficulties in translating Malay terms into English.
After the Q&A session, Ms Pravina takes us a tour around the school. I was amazed by the some of the courses that they had there. I dint expect that a special needs vocational school can have lots of skill traning courses such as hair saloon where they learn how to cut hair and many more. This course is mainly for girls. Moreover, they also have courses such as house keeping, batik painting, motor workshop, portrait painting and drawing, cooking, graphic design and many more. I was amazed by their talent everything.They are using hi-tech in graphic designing course. They are using use Mac computer for the course which is sponsored by government.
The years that these children study at special needs school is same as us which are primary 1 until primary 6 and then continue to secondary until secondary 5. These children can extend their studies for two years no matter whether is it primary or secondary level. This extension is for those who need it because of a certain reason. I am not sure of the reasons.
I heard from the teacher that these student will have an internship program. After they finish their studies, they can get a job. They do not need to go and apply for a job. They can get job in hotels, and many other places as well.
I am so happy that School of Education had arrange a trip to special needs school which i have never experience it before. This trip was very meaningful for me. I learned a lots of things about special needs school such as their education system, how the teachers there teach them, how is their environment, how the children there interact with each other, what kind of courses they have and many more. I hope that we can visit more different types of school in the future which will give all the students in School of education a good experience.
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Friday, 8 March 2013
An experience from refugee's visit
Last week's visit by refugees to our campus gave me an good experience. We get to know each other very well by introducing my names and theirs. Our Education school students had arrange a lots of fun activities for them. We had scavenger hunt, musical chairs, caterpillar games and so on. The refugee kids had a lot of fun and we too.
When we interact with each other was quite different from how i interact with my other fellow friends. This is because their first language is not English. Moreover, they also do not have a proper environment to speak English. Since other groups have a translator where i do not have it. So I had to use very simple English and say it in a simplified way and clearly. They was quite hesitate to be friendly and engage with us at the beginning of the day. Sooner, they started to get more friendly with all of us. Then, we all had such a fun time playing together.
The day after the visit, Kay and i met Dr.Tida during our lunch time. We had a long conversation about the refugee kids and our education pathway. Dr.Tida told us that the refugee kids do not have a proper classroom as all of us had. Their classroom meant for them is located at the abandon building somewhere near to their housing area. The classroom size is not even big as our campus's cafeteria. The small space itself will be separated into few section and that is where their lesson will be conducted. Despite, they do not even have a fixed and professional teachers to teach them. The teachers whom come to teach is just a volunteer teachers. The qualification of the teachers is if they can speak English,understand English and got some knowledge about what they are teaching. These kids will be sitting down on floor without tables and chairs. In their class, there will be mixed of different ages of students such as 4 years old kid and 12 years old kid in a same class. Moreover,the lesson plan is not proper. For instants, if there were two teachers who came to teach English, they do not know what did the previous teachers had taught them. Thus, sometimes the refugee kids will be taught the same topic twice.
Now i know the reason why the kids were refused to be friendly at the beginning, they did not experience this kind of exposure in their life before. However, they had a lot fun through out the day. I can see them having fun, laughing, being friendly to all my fellow friends.
As a future teacher, i want to help them in education wise by making them successful. They need a good education, professional teachers, proper lessons, proper classrooms and so on. Dr too, i have a question for you. How can i help them as a teachers after i have complete my UG programme? I mean in education wise.
When we interact with each other was quite different from how i interact with my other fellow friends. This is because their first language is not English. Moreover, they also do not have a proper environment to speak English. Since other groups have a translator where i do not have it. So I had to use very simple English and say it in a simplified way and clearly. They was quite hesitate to be friendly and engage with us at the beginning of the day. Sooner, they started to get more friendly with all of us. Then, we all had such a fun time playing together.
The day after the visit, Kay and i met Dr.Tida during our lunch time. We had a long conversation about the refugee kids and our education pathway. Dr.Tida told us that the refugee kids do not have a proper classroom as all of us had. Their classroom meant for them is located at the abandon building somewhere near to their housing area. The classroom size is not even big as our campus's cafeteria. The small space itself will be separated into few section and that is where their lesson will be conducted. Despite, they do not even have a fixed and professional teachers to teach them. The teachers whom come to teach is just a volunteer teachers. The qualification of the teachers is if they can speak English,understand English and got some knowledge about what they are teaching. These kids will be sitting down on floor without tables and chairs. In their class, there will be mixed of different ages of students such as 4 years old kid and 12 years old kid in a same class. Moreover,the lesson plan is not proper. For instants, if there were two teachers who came to teach English, they do not know what did the previous teachers had taught them. Thus, sometimes the refugee kids will be taught the same topic twice.
Now i know the reason why the kids were refused to be friendly at the beginning, they did not experience this kind of exposure in their life before. However, they had a lot fun through out the day. I can see them having fun, laughing, being friendly to all my fellow friends.
As a future teacher, i want to help them in education wise by making them successful. They need a good education, professional teachers, proper lessons, proper classrooms and so on. Dr too, i have a question for you. How can i help them as a teachers after i have complete my UG programme? I mean in education wise.
Saturday, 2 March 2013
A Letter Of Appreciation To Ms Ho
Dear Ms Ho, you have taught how to be confident because you showed me that you are successful in life eventhough you're Deaf. I learnt from you that no matter what obstacles we met in life, we must strive to overcome it. The talk that you gave was so interesting, I have gain quite some knowledge about Deaf. Before this, I was wondering that how can a Deaf people lead their life with this hearing disability. I also get to know that, even hearing parents can have a Deaf child. Through your talk, I have change my perspective about Deaf people and how they lead their life. Moreover, the traslator was amazing. I was amazaed by her sign language. Ms ho, I learnt that different country uses different types of sign languages. I'm so grateful that you have make your time free to visit our university and gave us a great talk. Thank You so much, Ms ho. :)
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Saraniya
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