TEACHERS OF THE 3RD MILLENNIUM

My son Paul used to comment that his mother's job is just socializing. Ha! How I wish. For your information my dears, we are in the business of producing graduate teachers for the future generations. Hopefully the quality of teachers produced in my institute will surpass those produced in the 80s or 90s. For a start the entry qualification is more stringent. Not every Tom, Dick, Harry, Ali, Ahmad, Aminah, Ah Kow, Ah Beng, etc... can simply enter this profession. It used to be the teaching profession had to go begging for candidates. Now, for every 100 posts, there'll be thousands of applicants. This year, more than 60,000 candidates applied, 5,000 were shortlisted and finally, 1500 selected for the program. besides the academic programs, other activities were deliberately planned and carried out so as to expose and train the future teachers in their future roles. Not only will they be professionally capable of carrying out pedagogy but also adept at running co-curricular activities. Feedbacks from school showed that school heads are very satisfied with the quality of teachers that we trained.
Take this event for example : Launching of Merdeka Month Celebration. Objectives : to instill spirit of patriotism, to build spirit of co-operation and to give students opportunity to organise events on such a grand scale.

Another event : Handling Stress Through Dance Therapy - was also very successful. 300 turned up for the event. Hopefully students will be able to run such events when they serve in their respective schools.

The whole gist is : Put a bit of fun in your work