Bullied to do extra work -plight of teachers
Monday January 21, 2013 Bullied to do extra work THIS is to highlight the plight of teachers who have to do the tasks of the Head of Department (Ketua Bidang) in schools in Klang. Teachers are struggling but at the same time happy to be involved in the ‘Pentaksiran Berasaskan Sekolah’ programme since it is a good idea to move away from an exam based education. Since the programme is still new, teachers have a lot to learn and lots of paper work that have to be completed and teachers are not complaining as this is part of the teaching and learning process. What teachers can’t stomach is the practice of the Ketua Bidang delegating administrative jobs to teachers as well. What happens is that the principal assigns a certain school programme to the Ketua Bidang who quickly assigns the duty to a teacher who has to prepare the proposal, the working paper, form a small committee and carry out the project. The teacher also has to take photographs, write a report, bind it and give ...