Sunday, November 10, 2013
2013: The Most Meaningful & Important Year of My Life!
Assalamualaikum & Good morning world!!! :)
its been ages since i updated and look forward to this blog... As for now on, congratulation to me and my counselor friends, we're employed! it's 4 months! Ngeeee... (feels like 4 years already(T_T)lol.)after a longgggg wait for nearly 1 year & 7 months! Alhamdulillah, Thanks Allah S.W.T, my lovely mother, ma (nanny), siblings(abe, kakak, kakcik,kakteh, kak uda,adik), all family members,my lovely Sha, lecturers, friends and colleague, & kucing for your efforts, supports and prayers, thanks Ministry of Education, thank you everyone! :D Without u guys its impossible for me to be sitting in my place right now and be the most grateful person for incoming years ahead! Alhamdulillah. i love my job and i love counseling!
Cheers,
Counselor Ikhtiar.
ENDOF2013
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Journal 2: How am I doing as practicum counselor? What are my needs that will make this experience better for me? What seems to be my challenges?
“Assalamualaikum cikgu!”On 19th April 2010, I start my first day practicum at Sek Men Teknik Gombak. I woke up at 5.50a.m and take my first bath as a practicum counselor. As usual, after performing Subuh prayer, I take my breakfast and preparing myself to go to school. I can’t deny that the anxiety is very high on that morning. Questions such as what must I do on the first day of practicum, who should I meet first, to whom I must report to and how the teacher perception towards me are repeatedly playing in my head.
I reached school at 7.20a.m and saw the students and teachers are preparing for the school assembly. Should I go to the assembly? I become more nervous. After a while, I decided to go to the school administration office and speak to one of the staff there. I introduced myself and inform her that I’m from IIUM and this is my first day as a practicum counselor at the school. She told me that I have to wait for the school principal and report to him first. So, I wait patiently at the school office. Around 8.30a.m, after the assembly is finished, one of the teachers approached me and introduces herself as Cik Hajjah Faezah Hanim, the school’s Penolong Kanan Kokurikulum. She said that the principal is having another meeting and she will handle my registration for the school. After finished on thumb print registration, I went to the Unit Bimbingan dan Kaunseling Room which is located at second floor on the main building.
My day as practicum counselor was not so bad and I enjoyed it. Relief class always fill my timetable for at least one and half hours a day. Sometimes, I had my individual counseling session for about a couple of time a week. There are varieties of problems among school students such as family problem, academic, career and so on. Besides, I also busy preparing my report, log book and journal. I’ve planned to arrange one group counseling on the career topic with a bunch of Form 5 students. Other than that, I involve in a lot in technical task in the school such as preparing multimedia presentation and backdrop for Sambutan Hari Guru 2010, updating counseling’s blog, and etc.
For me, students at Sek Men Teknik Gombak were really nice. Not much disciplinary cases, full of respect towards teachers, concern about their SPM examination and their career after school, enthusiastic, naive, friendly and helpful. When facing students with career issues, I try my best to help them to reach out for information about career, higher education level, job opportunities and etc. Besides, there are also several personal cases such as family problems, depression and referred cases such as smoking in school. Some of the cases are quite difficult and require me to do some revision especially when involved with family issues. Sometimes, I’ve been challenged by a lot of questions from students that not even crossed my mind.
There are many challenges that I have to face in school such as the culture of the school itself, means that I have to mingle with the teachers and helping them with relief class, organizing programs like Sambutan Hari Guru, Hari Anugerah Cemerlang, career guidance program from counseling unit, handling cases that have been referred by Discipline Unit and etc. When dealing with students, at Sek Men Teknik Gombak, the Form 5 students were really concern about their career exploration and which universities that appropriate for them after finishing their school. While for Form 4 students, since the school is a boarding school, many of the students face the adjustment problems that lead to homesickness, low academic performance and so on.
As a conclusion, after two weeks at school, I’ve gained a lot of experience in term of how to deal with students, time management, coping with the school environment, and get the picture of the real counselor in school. I can say that I’m very glad and thankful to all my supervisors especially Dr Haniza Rais for giving me this opportunity to carry out my first practicum at school as an early exposure for me about the roles and responsibilities of school counselor. Thank you.
I reached school at 7.20a.m and saw the students and teachers are preparing for the school assembly. Should I go to the assembly? I become more nervous. After a while, I decided to go to the school administration office and speak to one of the staff there. I introduced myself and inform her that I’m from IIUM and this is my first day as a practicum counselor at the school. She told me that I have to wait for the school principal and report to him first. So, I wait patiently at the school office. Around 8.30a.m, after the assembly is finished, one of the teachers approached me and introduces herself as Cik Hajjah Faezah Hanim, the school’s Penolong Kanan Kokurikulum. She said that the principal is having another meeting and she will handle my registration for the school. After finished on thumb print registration, I went to the Unit Bimbingan dan Kaunseling Room which is located at second floor on the main building.
My day as practicum counselor was not so bad and I enjoyed it. Relief class always fill my timetable for at least one and half hours a day. Sometimes, I had my individual counseling session for about a couple of time a week. There are varieties of problems among school students such as family problem, academic, career and so on. Besides, I also busy preparing my report, log book and journal. I’ve planned to arrange one group counseling on the career topic with a bunch of Form 5 students. Other than that, I involve in a lot in technical task in the school such as preparing multimedia presentation and backdrop for Sambutan Hari Guru 2010, updating counseling’s blog, and etc.
For me, students at Sek Men Teknik Gombak were really nice. Not much disciplinary cases, full of respect towards teachers, concern about their SPM examination and their career after school, enthusiastic, naive, friendly and helpful. When facing students with career issues, I try my best to help them to reach out for information about career, higher education level, job opportunities and etc. Besides, there are also several personal cases such as family problems, depression and referred cases such as smoking in school. Some of the cases are quite difficult and require me to do some revision especially when involved with family issues. Sometimes, I’ve been challenged by a lot of questions from students that not even crossed my mind.
There are many challenges that I have to face in school such as the culture of the school itself, means that I have to mingle with the teachers and helping them with relief class, organizing programs like Sambutan Hari Guru, Hari Anugerah Cemerlang, career guidance program from counseling unit, handling cases that have been referred by Discipline Unit and etc. When dealing with students, at Sek Men Teknik Gombak, the Form 5 students were really concern about their career exploration and which universities that appropriate for them after finishing their school. While for Form 4 students, since the school is a boarding school, many of the students face the adjustment problems that lead to homesickness, low academic performance and so on.
As a conclusion, after two weeks at school, I’ve gained a lot of experience in term of how to deal with students, time management, coping with the school environment, and get the picture of the real counselor in school. I can say that I’m very glad and thankful to all my supervisors especially Dr Haniza Rais for giving me this opportunity to carry out my first practicum at school as an early exposure for me about the roles and responsibilities of school counselor. Thank you.
Practicum 2010: What bother me most about this practicum? Anxieties, worries and concerns.
After two and half years being studying most of the theories, skills and basics in counseling, it is time for me to put them in a real life situation, practicum. As a matter of fact, I can say that this is my first ever practicum in my life since I have been studying. As considered, I was positioned as in training counselor for about seven weeks at Sekolah Menengah Teknik Gombak, Kuala Lumpur started from 19th April till 2nd June 2010. I believed that, same with my friends that having their practicum, there were hundreds of questions in our head that need to be answered mostly by ourselves. How can I handle hundreds of students at school assembly, what is other teachers perception towards me as practicum counselor, how about the school’s culture, can I be patient enough with students and so on. Those are only pieces of questions that repeatedly play in my mind just before the practicum started. What about the feelings? I cannot deny that anxiety is increasing, quite worry, not sure of what will happen and also concern on how far can I performs on my first practicum.
Talk about anxieties, firstly I must stay calm and accept this situation as it will happen sooner or later. Therefore, I cannot say that I’m not ready for it yet. The best I can do is just prepared to face the practicum from physical and mental condition. During on holidays before practicum, I went to Johor Bahru to visits my sister’s family. Luckily, my brother in law is a teacher in one of the school there. So, it is an opportunity for me to tell him about my first practicum and get tips from him on what to do during my practicum. He did share on his first experience during his practicum and it quite helping. At least, I can get a picture on the school culture and environment, how to tackle students and teachers from the school, my role as a practicum teacher and etc. From his story, I can feel that there are lots of feelings emerge inside of me such as happy, worry and exited and they all mixed up together. When coming back to Kuala Lumpur a week after, first thing I’ve done as my preparation to lesser the anxiety attacks, I did my haircut. Maybe, it’s kind of out on topic, but it helps me to be more confident when I face school’s teachers and students for the first time. I also bought some of new clothes and neckties to be wear during my practicum. Other than that, I just praying to Allah s.w.t so that everything will go as planned.
What if something happen not according to the plan? What if the school cannot accept me and students are very reluctant and not participative enough during my session? All this questions also arising and increase my worries toward my practicum time. As my preparation to counter this feeling, I try to be more positive and confident in what I’m doing. I must aware that this is a normal feeling for every one of my friends in term of facing their first practicum in school. It means that, I must learn very quick to get use to the school environment and students.
My concern right now to face the coming practicum is preparation on myself towards my appearance, time management, knowledge such as skills and basics in counseling, interpersonal skills, and try to be more natural and can mingle with school especially students and teachers. One more thing, I must get use to wake up earlier than before since school start at 7.30 in the morning. I feel very lucky because my school is located near with IIUM. One week before practicum started, I train myself to wake up at 6.00 o’clock in the morning and not continue to sleep after performing Subuh prayer.
As conclusion, this coming practicum quite nerves me up and there are certain things that I need to sacrifice in order to run this well. And I hope it worth it. I hope that for this coming seven weeks will go usually as planned and nothing worst will happen. Thanks to everyone around me for the support in making my first practicum going well and good luck to you too. Thank you.
Talk about anxieties, firstly I must stay calm and accept this situation as it will happen sooner or later. Therefore, I cannot say that I’m not ready for it yet. The best I can do is just prepared to face the practicum from physical and mental condition. During on holidays before practicum, I went to Johor Bahru to visits my sister’s family. Luckily, my brother in law is a teacher in one of the school there. So, it is an opportunity for me to tell him about my first practicum and get tips from him on what to do during my practicum. He did share on his first experience during his practicum and it quite helping. At least, I can get a picture on the school culture and environment, how to tackle students and teachers from the school, my role as a practicum teacher and etc. From his story, I can feel that there are lots of feelings emerge inside of me such as happy, worry and exited and they all mixed up together. When coming back to Kuala Lumpur a week after, first thing I’ve done as my preparation to lesser the anxiety attacks, I did my haircut. Maybe, it’s kind of out on topic, but it helps me to be more confident when I face school’s teachers and students for the first time. I also bought some of new clothes and neckties to be wear during my practicum. Other than that, I just praying to Allah s.w.t so that everything will go as planned.
What if something happen not according to the plan? What if the school cannot accept me and students are very reluctant and not participative enough during my session? All this questions also arising and increase my worries toward my practicum time. As my preparation to counter this feeling, I try to be more positive and confident in what I’m doing. I must aware that this is a normal feeling for every one of my friends in term of facing their first practicum in school. It means that, I must learn very quick to get use to the school environment and students.
My concern right now to face the coming practicum is preparation on myself towards my appearance, time management, knowledge such as skills and basics in counseling, interpersonal skills, and try to be more natural and can mingle with school especially students and teachers. One more thing, I must get use to wake up earlier than before since school start at 7.30 in the morning. I feel very lucky because my school is located near with IIUM. One week before practicum started, I train myself to wake up at 6.00 o’clock in the morning and not continue to sleep after performing Subuh prayer.
As conclusion, this coming practicum quite nerves me up and there are certain things that I need to sacrifice in order to run this well. And I hope it worth it. I hope that for this coming seven weeks will go usually as planned and nothing worst will happen. Thanks to everyone around me for the support in making my first practicum going well and good luck to you too. Thank you.
Friday, June 19, 2009
I'm Happy...
Being a happy person is never been harder for me. Here I would like to share with all of you guys on tips to be a happy person. Make sure that you start your day with a big happy smile on your face. As for myself, to wake up in the morning and smile in front of the mirror at my wall is a kinda ritual that I've been practice for years. As a matter of fact, for me, to smile on the early morning showing that I'm very thankful to Allah S.W.T for giving my life back after been 'dead' for one night. :) It cannot be denied that as a human being, we're facing thousands of problems everyday... well, that's part of human life. It must be something wrong somewhere if there's any people saying that they does not have problem in their life at all. For guys out there, how could you let these common problems stops you from being a happy person? So, start being happy from now!!! :D
Thursday, October 23, 2008
ASSIGNMENT: WEBSITE EVALUATION
WEBSITE EVALUATION: www.myspace.com
Nowadays, internet plays an important role in many sectors such as education, economy, social and politics. Therefore, the progress of its content is rapidly being improved. In fact, there are many websites that provide us with good and bad information. It depends on us to use it on correctly or not. There are several types of website that function in different ways such as social networking, video hosting, trading, wikis, and etc. I would like to evaluate one of these website that prepare users with social networking services called www.myspace.com. This website is commonly well-known among users especially for those who like to make friends and community.
First of all, I would like to explain about the features that available on this website. From what I’ve known, www.myspace.com is one of the web 2.0 that provide users with enhance creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users. In other word, besides gaining information from the web and enjoying the features only, the user also can contribute something such as uploading text, image, audio and video too. Users also can create their cyber community which means that they can makes friends from around the world. Suitable for social-networking, this website provide us with all the attractive features such as upload image and video, sharing information, bulletin board and chat box for users to communicate with their friends. For the new features, users also can put some applications such as internet games to play while surfing the website. Overall, the features for the website are suitable for all type of users.
Then, as the social-networking website, the must be interesting to attract users. For this website, for the main page, it uses a soft blue colour and contains some videos and images that have been uploaded by the registered user of the website. For new users, they must signing up first, login to their account and start to make friends all around the world. After that, the also can customize their own page such as the theme for the layout, put videos and images on it and etc. there are several theme provider that available on the internet and users can use it for free. In my opinion, the layout design for the website is excellent since that it must attract users from different categories and country all around the world.
For the effectiveness, users will not facing many problems in surfing in the website because the interface is very user-friendly and simple to deal with. This website also prepares step-by step instruction on how to upload text, images, and videos on the site. Furthermore, it also provides us instruction on how to change our page layout, to search for friends, to give and reply comment to friends. Once you already expert about the features of the website, you will find out that this website make yourself easier to share information with people and also making friends with others. For me, I will suggest this website to the internet users that interested in socializing and networking and making friends with people worldwide.
However, besides all the advanced features and attractive user interface, there are also problems and issues that need to be solve while surfing in this website. For the registered users, there are certain cases that your account will be attack by virus and cannot be use anymore. So in term of security, www.myspace.com has to upgrade their firewall so that the rights of the users such as pictures and videos will be guaranteed for safe. Other than that, for the social-networking site, there are some types of users that misuse the features in this website such as by uploading pornographic pictures and it is not suitable for certain categories of users. In this case, I think that this website must also update their terms and conditions on uploading materials for the site.
In educational field, www.myspace.com is merely suitable to be use because it includes all the services such as uploading materials, give comment and also information sharing. For example, teacher can use this website to communicate with their students, give homework and assignment, discuss on issues about the subjects, and give notes about the subject without worrying about the time factor and participation of the students.
As a conclusion, for overall evaluation, I kindly suggest this website to be use in educational field with supervision from the teachers so that Teaching & Learning (T&L) process will be more attractive, interactive and can motivate student to learn the subjects without feeling bored and tension. Thank you.
Nowadays, internet plays an important role in many sectors such as education, economy, social and politics. Therefore, the progress of its content is rapidly being improved. In fact, there are many websites that provide us with good and bad information. It depends on us to use it on correctly or not. There are several types of website that function in different ways such as social networking, video hosting, trading, wikis, and etc. I would like to evaluate one of these website that prepare users with social networking services called www.myspace.com. This website is commonly well-known among users especially for those who like to make friends and community.
First of all, I would like to explain about the features that available on this website. From what I’ve known, www.myspace.com is one of the web 2.0 that provide users with enhance creativity, information sharing and collaboration among users. In other word, besides gaining information from the web and enjoying the features only, the user also can contribute something such as uploading text, image, audio and video too. Users also can create their cyber community which means that they can makes friends from around the world. Suitable for social-networking, this website provide us with all the attractive features such as upload image and video, sharing information, bulletin board and chat box for users to communicate with their friends. For the new features, users also can put some applications such as internet games to play while surfing the website. Overall, the features for the website are suitable for all type of users.
Then, as the social-networking website, the must be interesting to attract users. For this website, for the main page, it uses a soft blue colour and contains some videos and images that have been uploaded by the registered user of the website. For new users, they must signing up first, login to their account and start to make friends all around the world. After that, the also can customize their own page such as the theme for the layout, put videos and images on it and etc. there are several theme provider that available on the internet and users can use it for free. In my opinion, the layout design for the website is excellent since that it must attract users from different categories and country all around the world.
For the effectiveness, users will not facing many problems in surfing in the website because the interface is very user-friendly and simple to deal with. This website also prepares step-by step instruction on how to upload text, images, and videos on the site. Furthermore, it also provides us instruction on how to change our page layout, to search for friends, to give and reply comment to friends. Once you already expert about the features of the website, you will find out that this website make yourself easier to share information with people and also making friends with others. For me, I will suggest this website to the internet users that interested in socializing and networking and making friends with people worldwide.
However, besides all the advanced features and attractive user interface, there are also problems and issues that need to be solve while surfing in this website. For the registered users, there are certain cases that your account will be attack by virus and cannot be use anymore. So in term of security, www.myspace.com has to upgrade their firewall so that the rights of the users such as pictures and videos will be guaranteed for safe. Other than that, for the social-networking site, there are some types of users that misuse the features in this website such as by uploading pornographic pictures and it is not suitable for certain categories of users. In this case, I think that this website must also update their terms and conditions on uploading materials for the site.
In educational field, www.myspace.com is merely suitable to be use because it includes all the services such as uploading materials, give comment and also information sharing. For example, teacher can use this website to communicate with their students, give homework and assignment, discuss on issues about the subjects, and give notes about the subject without worrying about the time factor and participation of the students.
As a conclusion, for overall evaluation, I kindly suggest this website to be use in educational field with supervision from the teachers so that Teaching & Learning (T&L) process will be more attractive, interactive and can motivate student to learn the subjects without feeling bored and tension. Thank you.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
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