Reflection of ‘Simposium Pendidikan 2009’

Simposium Pendidikan 2009 is one of the programme held in conjunction with Minggu Pendidikan 2009 with the theme ‘Pendidikan Membina Modal Insan’. There are three main paper presented during this symposium which are “Pelan Induk Pembangunan Pendidikan: Implikasi Terhadap Profesion Perguruan dan Persekolahan” , “Profesionalisme Keguruan: Isu dan Cabaran”, in the afternoon session the paper that was presented entitled “Integriti & Nilai Murni: Isu dan Cabaran. All the final year students from the educational were invited to attend this symposium. There are a lot of new information and things that I learned after attending this programme.

Firstly, in the first session the speaker explain to us, the “Pelan Induk Pembangunan Pendidikan: Implikasi Terhadap Profesion Perguruan dan Persekolahan.The speaker said that the government devised this planned in order to make sure that our country educational system are developing towards the world status. The plan was also guided by the National Educational Philosophy which stated that education in Malaysian is an on-going effort towards further developing the potential of individuals in a holistic and integrated manner, so as to produce individuals who are intellectually, spiritually, emotionally and physically balanced and harmonious.

During the presentation of the second paper which was entitled “Profesionalisme Keguruan: Isu dan Cabaran, we learned new information about Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Pelajaran Malaysia which are entrusted by the government to interview and appoint new teacher. The speaker which was Yg Bhg Dato Hj. Kusaini Hj. Hasbullah explained to us the procedure of the interview as well explaining about the appointment process. This piece of information helps us to prepared ourselves when we graduated next year.

Last but not the least, we also learned about the characteristic of good teacher and domains of a teacher during the afternoon session the speaker talk to us about Integriti & Nilai Murni: Isu dan Cabaran. Some of the domains are social and profession. In the profession domain, teacher need to have characteristics such as creative and innovative, proactive, integrity, credibility, love towards own profession and team working spirits.