Where are you posted?

Congratulation to all for MQA had accredited all PISMP courses on the 25th January 2011. The great news today is you can check out where you are posted to through the application found in Ministry of Education websites. For those, who haven't check out their posting, please check it at here. 


Everyone welcome to teaching profession and hope that everyone have a happy teaching time, 

Shall Posting for PISMP is on 7 February 2010?

On Tuesday 25th January 2011, @weekasiongmp said:

Finally, MQA has accredited all PISMP courses. Letter fr MQA is expected to be received by tomorrow, thereafter BPSH will do the needful & inform various State Eductn Dept. A total of 1,950 PISMP graduates will start work as scheduled.

Guidebook for PISMP

After looking writing that much on PISMP programme, I found my guidebook that I received in my college years. In the guidebook it contains framework of our course, concept, strategy on how it should be carried out. It also contains information on learning outcome, structure of the course, subjects and related. If you are interested you can download from here. However, it was written in Bahasa Melayu.

Compulsory subjects

Major subjects offered

Description on BIG

Posting Issues of PISMP January 2007 Intake

The issues of more than 2000 trainee teachers that didn’t get any news from Ministry of Education regarding the posting to school approaching January has created anxiety among the trainee as well as education community. There had been much discussion varied from forum and facebook. 

Personally, approaching the end of December 2010 I managed to drop by the Ministry of Education. I talked with the representatives. They told me there wasn't any posting for our course till the accreditation of MQA. Only after the accreditation and meeting being carried out, the posting shall be arranged by the Ministry. After the state for posting had been determine, an application will be posted in the Ministry of Education websites. From the application, we can check on which state we are posted on. Only then we can contact the Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri to inquire which school we are posted to. 

Waiting patiently for government response, I was rather disappointed when no immediate response was given until  l the latest  news reported in the star on 16 January 2010. The article entitle PISMP grads only allowed to teach after getting approval.

At the same time, I was glad the community was concern about us. There had been a few news report regarding our situation.

http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/153460

However, I was curious which programme was accredited by MQA already and how was the progress. If anyone who know about the progress, do please inform me. Thank you.

Why apply to be a teacher for PISMP course?

Well, there had been 1001 reasons to do something. Teaching profession has managed to attract many applicants from each passing years. The place given was so little compared to the amount of applicants. After finishing the course, I come up with a few good reasons on why I ended up with this course.

1. 1.    It is a scholarship- you are paid to study. This programme is a scholarship where you can gain free education, although you have to work with the government for 4 years. During my five and half years, I had not paid a single cent for it. I do not have to think about paying for tuition fees or entrance fee. Everything was paid by the government. Besides that, allowance was given on monthly basis including November and December to support your living during the duration you study. The allowances maybe vary according to region. In Sarawak my allowance was around RM600 month, I can’t recall the exact amount as I don’t keep track of it. So for those that have financial problem and interested to be teacher, do apply for this course. Another advantage in my college, we are given hostel. Monthly they will reduce RM60 from you allowance. It means that for RM2 daily you have a spacious room with bed, big table, wardrobe, electricity, water supply and high speed wireless connection. (This only applies to my IPG Kampus Tun Abdul Razak)  

1. 2    Secured with good job. After finishing your degree, you are supposed to work for the government for 4 years due to the contract. This means that you are secured with a job unlike other graduates. This means that you don't have to end up with the situation below.

1. 3.    Good quality education . Personally I find that this programme offers something you cannot get in other public universities. In the college, the trainees are little where in average a class only has 20 trainees. Hence, the lecturer has more time for all. In any time, I can ask for appointment with the lecturer for academic help or other related problem and sometimes the lecturer won’t mind to teach you extras. The small amount of trainees also makes the learning more enjoyable with education based on problem based learning and sharing. Besides that the curriculum is very interesting. The facilities provided in the college are good. Currently, the course was being accredited by the MQA where half of the courses already being accredited. It is believed that the others will be accredited soon.

 If you know of other good reasons do please comment. 

What Bachelor in Education (Hons) or KPLSPM from IPG got to offer?

In this post, I would like to summarize what I got from this course after being graduate. I could only say it was beyond words and . The bachelor in Education (Hons) is a course carried out by IPG specialized in training future teachers. This course is made up of four major components during the degree years that made up its 133 credits. The course is divided into 4 components which are the compulsory subjects (23 credits), your major subjects (86 credits), first and second minor subjects (24 credits).

In my own opinion, the course can also be divided into a few categories based on type of learning involved. The first one is the academic part where most of the time you will have lessons, lecturers, practical, coursework and exam. Basically we have pedagogy subjects, my major science subjects, minors such as English, Physical Education and compulsory subjects such as Art in Education, TITAS and Hubungan Etnik.  

Meanwhile, the second categories are the teaching practice. Our teaching practice is divided in a very different way. During the first and second year, every semester we are sent to schools for one week to complete certain given task. The programme is called School Based Experience (SBE) that provides the insight of school. In the process, you get to know how the school runs, how different teachers play their role, how teachers teach, the school culture and climate, getting knows the hook and crooks in an education field. Although we are not allowed to teach at that time, sometimes the condition forces us to help out to look after the pupils. From the small accumulated experience you get to know helpful knowledge and skills. The teaching practice started off on the Third year. We had 1 month of teaching practice on the 5^th semester, 2 months of teaching practice on the 6^th semester, 3 months of teaching practice on the 7^hth semester. Finally on the final semester we got one month of internship where we are required to complete a minimal of 3 selected projects in the school. This is considered into Major subject. It was crucial because it prepares you for the real thing. 

The third component is the Teacher Character Building or more commonly known as Bina Insan Guru (Bina Insan Guru). In this programme we are being exposed to many challenges as well as interesting events. In my experience on the first semester we had 4 days 3 nights camping in the forest. The activities were similar to usual camping with mountain hiking, kayaking on the sea, talent time, cooperative games or challenges and others. Meanwhile on the second semester we had to organize and participate in community service. We opted for old folks home and picking rubbish on the waterfall. Third semester we had to organize and participate in educational service by doing a Jejak Science Programme in the school. On the forth semester we had another camping, the difference between the prior are we had to organize and participate in adopting family. The main reason for the event was so familiarize us on how to communicate and accommodate to the variants of community and culture. On the fifth semester we had to organize and participate in seminars and benching marking. The benchmarking was done in schools which had Guru Cemerlang only and excellent schools. Similar activities were carried out on the sixth semester. This programmes requires us to come up with proposals, committee members, handling all the preoperational works, writing reflection before, during and after as well as all the related report by the committee. This was included in the Compulsory subjects.

The last component was co curriculum. Unlike other places, this component is not something you can opt to take or leave it. It was compulsory. But we can choose what you want to take such as sport and uniform units, but usually there are only 3 choices you can choose from. For the first semester we had co curriculum management. Second semester we had games, third and fourth semester we had uniform units. Fifth semester we had athletics. On the sixth semester we had clubs. This component is included in the compulsory subjects too.

Besides all this planned learning, we also happened to have many other compulsory events. Most of the event organized by the IPG is compulsory. The usual routine is we had to organize the month assembly once in awhile, organize or participate in language carnivals or special subject related events, yearly event. Besides that you are invited to join clubs, competitions that are being held in the IPG, within IPG, open to IPT competition and etc. At the same time, not to forget the duties in a class. A class mainly made up of usually 20 trainees plus or minus. In a class, you are being introduced with the work of being a monitor, assistance monitor, treasurer, secretary, special duties such as being the contact person with certain lecturer, photostatting officer and etc. There is so much more to write about. So if you are interested do join this course the application is usually open on February for July intake.

What is PISMP?

You might have been wondering what is PISMP? PISMP stands for Program Ijazah Sarjana Muda dengan Kepujian or Bachelor Degree in Education with Hons that is conducted by Institut Pendidikan Guru (IPG) in 27 campuses around Malaysia. It offers teacher training programme for primary school level for Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK), Sekolah Jenis Kebangasaan Cina (SJKC) and Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil. The programme covers five and half years with one and a half of foundation programme and four years of degree programmed. This programme is open to Malaysian below age 20 to produce younger teacher with high qualification to serve the nation. It is mainly cater to SPM graduates. Hence, most of the students aged 18 and 19 when they applied.