TOKOH GURU: ‘Good teachers make sacrifices’ What sacrifices?
On thess days when everything is measured by the amount of weatlh one is having, this chap is really hilarious.
What is needed is for the country to be more citizen friendly, then-after things would be ideal. Teachers can perform and everything, insyAllah would be rosy for everyone and all.
Good luck to him!
TOKOH GURU: ‘Good teachers make sacrifices’
By Chok Suat Ling
Better incentives will not make better teachers. The Federal Territory’s Tokoh Guru recipients said good teachers should instead be willing to make sacrifices and go the extra mile.
"Do the things other teachers are not willing to do," said P. Kaliannan who, with three other teachers, received his award from Education director-general Datuk Dr Ahamad Sipon in conjunction with the Federal Territory’s Teachers’ Day celebrations today.
Kaliannan, who was headmaster of SRJK (T) Jalan San Peng in Kuala Lumpur until he retired in 1997, was willing to spend months in Sabah and Sarawak organising sports activities for students.
Kaliannan said teachers today had to be more resilient than in the past.
"Teachers now have a heavier workload. They also have to contend with the attitude of parents. In those days, when teachers disciplined students, the children would be further disciplined at home. Nowadays parents summon the teachers. In those days, negative influences were fewer. Now children even challenge their teachers. As such, teachers have to evolve too," he said.
Mohd Nor Sairon said teachers should not hope for incentives or rewards.
"If they get incentives, it is a bonus, but it should not be what they work for. They should work for themselves and their students."
Phua Seng Tiong, who was headmaster of SMK Jinjang in Kuala Lumpur before retiring in 2000, said being a teacher was rewarding in itself.
Jamaludin Othman, former principal of SMK Dato’ Undang Abdul Manaf, in Johol, Negeri Sembilan, said maintaining student discipline was the most challenging aspect of teaching.
"Teachers should update themselves and strive to stay healthy, alert and spiritual."
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