I no care one
"i scare i will fail, because you no longer coaching us like last time..."
i lose my tongue at that moment, i think. how am i suppose to react? i am trying to apply a different approach to guide them to the way that is suppose to be. i don't want to pave a way for everything. i learn my lesson from my previous batch. i was so regret that i was over pampered them until they are no longer standing on their own feet. they don't even know how to do research. what they know is go online, copy->paste->modify->submit, that's all. i still remembered the first day they entered uni, they called me up straight after their first lesson. the prof scold them for asking learning material from him. by then only they learn the lesson. i was regret because i never train them to be independence, so now they have to learn the hard way. i was so sorry for them. its all my fault. so i promised myself i will never ever do that again. history shall not repeat twice.
i don't care if you were to curse me or what, i know what am i doing. i just hope that you people will insult me whenever you facing any problem. okay?
October 31, 2008 at 11:01 PM Recalled back the first day experience when I went to my programming class. My lecturer directly threw us the very first assignment before she has taught us the FIRST lesson! We were so panic during that moment don't even know what to do! Furthermore, lecturers there are not as helpful as TARC college lecturers here, providing 6 hours of consultation per week and sit in the room stupidly waiting fr student to come and see us.
If we go and ask lecturer about "how to do the assignment", the lecturer will give us the nag - "You all are uni students already. Have to learn how to study and search for the information indepedently. Don't always waiting for lecturers to spoon feeding you all... Bla bla bla.." And in the end we never get any answer that we want.
During the 3 years study, I was so hate my uni's lecturer for never being so helpful. But when the moment I start to work outside and see all my coursemates who working outside, I start to understand and ponder the reasons behind all these "training" which are provided by them to us. Thanks to them! We able to survive in the competitive working environment and become such an independent person that able to do research on the information that we want.
I support what are you going to do.. Hope that the students are able to understand you real motive on this decision.
October 31, 2008 at 11:29 PM thank you for being so supportive, i gone through the same critical moments as you before, by that time i was so abhor them and curse them to %$#@&. i never think of the logic behind the actions. i am such a damn idiot, (i thought they are racist!)only after the first semester then i started to realize. by the time i start my project, then i face no problem at all, because i know where to search and find for materials, helps and etc. i was at the same age like our young friends right now, why i can realize it but not they? don't you think something is wrong somewhere?
November 1, 2008 at 9:31 AM During our time becoming students is different from current time. The current students are more pampered and tend to get immediate response when they want to know something. My SAS students come in tutorial class without answers and with the faces full of hope. Hope that you can give them the answers. They didn't even try! (99%of them) and they never want to go through the hard process to search for the answer. If possible, we lecturer can become their "live" dictionary and tell them all the answers that they want. I think this is a trend.
During our moment, even though we dislike our lecturers' style, but still we force ourselves to adapt to that environment. But for current situation, we seem like have to be the one who adapating to their style.
For instance, preparing the lecture notes. My business students from last year complaining that the notes I prepared for them was too long! ACtually, I alredy told them the reasons why the notes have to be so long (Coz they need to study 14 chapters!). But they not seem to understand or choose not to be understanding or what, I also dunno the reason. One of the student even threw her tantrum and said " waste my money nia to buy this book!". What happened in the end was I was so frustrated to listen to her as well (I admit that I am not a patient and good temper person either), and I told her that if she really not satisfy towards my notes, I can always return her the money that she has spent to buy my notes but with the condition that she has to return that notes to me and she buy the text book herself. Go ahead and do the notes that she feel is good for her! But after listened to me, she dare not to speak anything after that.
From this incident, you can see that the students currently are having all sorts of different request. One from another. We have 100 students, 100 of them having different expectations. Not easy to please these 100 different expectations.
I guess the main factor that encourage towards this culture is parents and family influence. When we were small, if teacher hit us for not submitting homework, even if our hand turn into red or bruise, we go home dare not to tell parents one. Coz we know that parents will never stand at our side. But now, if the student get hit by his/her teacher for the same reason, and their hand get red and bruise, the second day press conference will be held and the parents and maybe even worse is their ancestors ancestors also go over school to ask the reason why my son/daughter get hit. And sometimes they even demand the school to apologize for the incident. This cultivate a wrong perceptions in the students mind where whatever they done, they always right. So when they slowly grown up in this pampered environment, you suddenly ask them to be such independet to search the answers by themselves, it is like the end of the world for them. Coz they have the thinking that "I paid money come to study here, I contribute part of money to lecturer's salary.. etc." and we lecturer have to be always "on call", support them 24x7. Especially during study week. Bring their thick books come over office and ask for this and that question's answers.
Don't blame the students on this. I guess if you really want to blame, blame parents who are "training" and "shaping" their sons/daughters to turn into somebody that never taste the difficulties in their gowing lives and thus they feel is very bad and hard to go through the small little tiny simple process to search for the answers by themselves during the study time.
Again, we can't change the education system as well as the all the parents' thinking in Malaysia. Too much of them! The only thing we can do is change the way of our lecturing. Students must show their willingness to change in this process too. Else later when they go out, they will drown in the world of competition and at the same time complaining why the outside world is such as terrible place to work (this is what many young people are complaining now). They never want to understand and merely know how to blame others for their bad luck. This is our current young people's trend....
November 2, 2008 at 2:25 PM i shall please no one,
i will reject what they want,
ridiculous never won,
i will defeat them one by one.