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attawabi3- just another madrasah note.. : )

here is my latest madrasah note. i believe those in Sec 3 are now learning this topic. : )

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does it matter if we failed?

I was revising with my students on this particular topics of Fiqh (Law in Islam / Jurisprudence) which i find it somehow irrelevant for them to study at their level especially in our context, yet as a tutor, I thought I should just keep it to myself and carried on with revising and explaining to them its concept and rules. As much as I thought, not long after  I started my explanation, they were asking me why did they need to learn that particular topics since it’s not relevant / applicable here. With all due respect, tho I agreed but I did not say much about it and continued to teach them. It strikes me when one of them said “does it matter if we failed (this topic/subject)?”. She got the point, I thought.

After awhile, 3 senior teachers/lecture approached us to see what we were studying, and looking at that particular topic, surprisingly their reactions were the same. They too find it appropriate for them to learn that. I immediately shared with them the same concern, and 1 of them asked me to write a feedback on it. yeah, perhaps I shall just do that, on top of writing it as a point in my thesis, since it has some links to what I’m writing about for my thesis paper.

Nevertheless, another part of me says that it is still useful to learn that topic and who knows it will comes in handy for them in future. Provided that what they memorise now still stick in mind. hm, which, as a matter of fact, I doubt so, due to their many other contents they need to memorise. : )

just another madrasah notes…

subject : nahu ‘arabi

just another madrasah notes…

subject : nahu ‘arabi

Doa for Students

The exam strikes again! Well, take a deep breath and zikr. These do’a might help. : )

Download (PDF, 194.65KB)

Disclaimer: I did not write this. Initially I planned to type all relevant do’a till i stumble upon this document in my folder, so i decided to work smart and just embed it here, instead of typing a new one. Anyway, I believe do’a belongs to everyone. ; )

How to Train Your Dragon?

Fantasy yet real. Awesome. Funny. Touching. Smart. Learn. Compassion.

Plot Summary: Long ago up North on the Island of Berk, the young Viking, Hiccup, wants to join his town’s fight against the dragons that continually raid their town. However, his macho father and village leader, Stoik the Vast, will not allow his small, clumsy, but inventive son to do so. Regardless, Hiccup ventures out into battle and downs a mysterious Night Fury dragon with his invention, but can’t bring himself to kill it. Instead, Hiccup and the dragon, whom he dubs Toothless, begin a friendship that would open up both their worlds as the observant boy learns that his people have misjudged the species. But even as the two each take flight in their own way, they find that they must fight the destructive ignorance plaguing their world.

Script from the movie that caught me:

(During Father and Son argument; Father wanted Son to keep fighting Dragons, yet Son chose to save them.)

Father: “They’ve killed hundreds of us!”
Son: “But we’ve killed thousands of them!”. “They’re just defending themselves.”

Hm, familiar?

Maybe ‘they’ think that ‘they’ can ‘train’ the ‘dragon’.

Parctice. Pcartice. Practice. Perfect!

I returned their test papers today. Though it’s a bit disappointing to see most of them could not make it, but the fact that they still tried to answer all questions are already a good attempt. I remember there were 2-3 of them wanted to give up and did not even want to try answer it, but I still insisted that they answered and not to leave anything blank, and so they did fill in all. I get them to do corrections today. I guess they still need more practices, while.. as for me ? Trying to find some other styles and methods to make them understand the formula.

Talk about practice, in my another class (tuition, to be exact), I gave my student spelling test based on the words that was provided by her teacher for her class weekly spelling exercise. Out of 5 sentences (3 words per sentences), she only got 1 perfect sentence spelt correctly. And so we did a second round. She complained why did I have to make her try a second time, and asked if she could instead do corrections. I told her by practising it, she would then be able to see the mistake she made, hence remember its correct spelling. And the 3rd round was perfect, all 5 sentences were correctly spelt. Excellent! : )

Lovely Sunset

not just another amazing sunset. Really. You’ve got to view it yourself and see what I meant. It’s TOTALLY amazing, beautiful and lovely. It’s a WOW… but too bad I was not really prepared and didn’t bring my tripod.. apologies for the quality! (well I guess the sunset is just too amazing to notice the quality.. hehe)

Taken on 19 Apr 2010, 1850hrs.

A true Teacher?

“Guru sejati lebih rela menjadi murid daripada mempertahankan keguruannya” (a true teacher is more willing to be a student than to defend his teachership).

I stumbled upon this amazing quote while browsing thru my facebook friends’ status. Posted by a renowned scriptwriter and a musician, Isa Kamari, I cant help but to believe that there’s a deep meaning behind it.  Though I am not sure what  he really meant or how he defines the meaning of ‘teacher’ and ’student’, but I do agree with this quote. How I see it is that a teacher should remain as student i.e. to be humble while continue to learn, seek knowledge and be open with comments or questions. Also, there should not be any ‘teacher-ego’ while teaching as that could set a barrier for a 2 way learning hence put that teacher as though he is in charge or superior than those students, just because of the knowledge he has. That’s just not right, I thought.

As for me, I have always believed in learning while teaching. What I’m doing is more like a sharing of what I have rather than teaching or molding them to some ’subject’ or ‘person’. Furthermore, I enjoy being with them like their own peer, or sister. In fact, they do call me ‘kak’ (sister) outside/after class, which I’m ok with it. Back to the belief, I mean it literally too, that sometimes I would figured out or learnt something new of the subjects I teach even after years of learning and teaching. Simply say, what u learn have no end.

Anyway, back to my class. Today’s class was good. Nothing unpleasant at all. Students listened and did what they were told to. And since I have start to take note of their attendance twice; in the middle and end of class, they no longer ask if they could go back earlier coz they knew the attendance sheet will be submitted to school’s office. : )

I gave them an exercise on Arabic dialogue. They were supposed to write the answer/response to the given dialogue (the same dialogue that they memorised during previous lesson), and translated it. Also, I’ve written some Arabic verbs for them to copy, and to memorise it the next lesson.

This post is also listed under FWD Page (Category: Diary). Keep checking out that page as I will update it daily. Lookout for more sharing to come! : )

A True Teacher?

“Guru sejati lebih rela menjadi murid daripada mempertahankan keguruannya” (a true teacher is more willing to be a student than to defend his teachership).

I stumbled upon this amazing quote while browsing thru my facebook friends’ status. Posted by a renowned scriptwriter and a musician, Isa Kamari, I cant help but to believe that there’s a deep meaning behind it.  Though I am not sure what  he really meant or how he defines the meaning of ‘teacher’ and ’student’, but I do agree with this quote. How I see it is that a teacher should remain as student i.e. to be humble while continue to learn, seek knowledge and be open with comments or questions. Also, there should not be any ‘teacher-ego’ while teaching as that could set a barrier for a 2 way learning hence put that teacher as though he is in charge or superior than those students, just because of the knowledge he has. That’s just not right, I thought.

As for me, I have always believed in learning while teaching. What I’m doing is more like a sharing of what I have rather than teaching or molding them to some ’subject’ or ‘person’. Furthermore, I enjoy being with them like their own peer, or sister. In fact, they do call me ‘kak’ (sister) outside/after class, which I’m ok with it. Back to the belief, I mean it literally too, that sometimes I would figured out or learnt something new of the subjects I teach even after years of learning and teaching. Simply say, what u learn have no end.

Anyway, back to my class. Today’s class was good. Nothing unpleasant at all. Students listened and did what they were told to. And since I have start to take note of their attendance twice; in the middle and end of class, they no longer ask if they could go back earlier coz they knew the attendance sheet will be submitted to school’s office. : )

I gave them an exercise on Arabic dialogue. They were supposed to write the response/answer to the given dialogue (the same dialogue that they memorised during previous lesson), and translated it. Also, I’ve written some Arabic verbs for them to copy, and to memorise it the next lesson.