Pending Tasks of PBS KSSR
There are only 4 weeks left before end of the school
semester. Thus, a lot of wrap needed to be done. It is now the time to list out
all the paper works, reports, yearly plan for next year and of course exam
papers and marks. All needed to be done before the holiday, if you don’t want
to spend your school holiday at school. If not, spending a few weeks after or
maybe more just to make sure all pending tasks done at school is a must.
The most important task now is the performance report for
the children. It is easy since the SPPBS system has provide us the report as we
key in the score and we only have to print it out. However, if the assessment
is not done yet, how can we are able to make sure that it is done before the
semester ends. Since there are a lot of children seem to be missing along the
way due to absences, I need to catch them as soon as possible. The only problem
is I don’t like to disturb the children during class because it is the time
they gained new skills and learn. That’s why I was puzzled why other teachers
can just took them out of the class and assessed them out of their period of
teaching. I wish I could be that strong to disturb the lesson but I am not.
Thus, I am planning to take them out of my period of teaching and do the
assessment during and after the exam so then they will be able to gain and
master the skill assessed. The examination week is next week, thus, the
children free periods are my target.
Easiest Steps of PBS KSSR
It was so chaotic when I assessed the children for the first
time since the PBS for KSSR was launched in June 2011 and we needed to give the
results at the end of the Dec 2011. And this year, the year of 2012, the
assessment seems to go a bit smoother but slower due to I now know the process
of the assessment. After 2 years of implementing PBS for KSSR at school, and to
be exact, it is only 18 months of the implementation, and after trying several
ways of implementing it, I have figured out the easiest way to assess the
children.
These are the best steps that I can lay out for you. Hope this will help me and you.
The first step that is compulsory is to identify the
descriptor and evidence in the Dokumen
Standard Prestasi (not the Dokumen Standard that we used to make lesson
plans) and match it with the skills
that have been described in the Dokumen Standard.
Then, during your lesson in class, when you plan your lesson, if there are skills
that can be assessed, make sure you also
plan your assessment. Write the
bands in your assessment column; such as
B1D1E1. Thus, your assessment should be accordingly to the skills taught in
class. And remember; not all skills taught are actually being tested. Thus,
there are no issues whether you want to do it weekly, monthly or according to
your school’s examination schedule. Inform and discuss with your colleagues who
also teach the same topic to the same badge on how you assessed your children
to make sure they do the same assessment. Don’t
be shy to share the worksheets.
Then, identify the
children that are not able to master the skill. This is the ‘Pengesanan
Dalaman’ process which is necessary so that all your pupils achieve the skill. You
can do this while the lesson is conducted or after; if you use worksheets as
your instruments. Make sure to write it down in your impact and mark the ‘Manual
Skor’.
Lastly, during your free time especially Saturday, Sunday
and Public Holiday, spend sometime to key in the score of your children in the
SPPBS. Or wait until all the bands have been tested but then the system might be jam because everyone is also trying to key it in. And remember to print the
formative and summative report and put the report in the childs' file.
One important thing to remember, make sure you assess each evidence required in
the Dokumen Standard Prestasi because we don’t know whether our hypotheses that
the children won’t be able to do the Band 5 or Band 6 is correct or
not. Thus, test all of it. That is why I asked you to go through all the
evidences (in the Dokumen Standard Prestasi) first only then you plan the
assessment.
May the steps laid out here will help you. Good luck!!!
Glossary:
Descriptor : What
the teachers wants to assess or teach.
Evidence : What the
pupils are able to do.
Thank you dear...
As my stomach get bigger, I become weaker now. Every part
of me starting to get ache and cannot stand for a long period of time. My baby now
is 25 weeks along leaving only at least 15 weeks to go before my due date.
Yesterday was Sunday and I planned to rest and do nothing
except to cook. My husband knew that so he helped with all the chores. He tidied up, he swept,
he vacuumed, he mopped, he washed clothes and he also cleaned the kitchen and the
bathroom. He also took care of our son last night since I couldn’t sit and
play with him.
How can I ever thank him for being so generous and
understanding. Thank you, sweetie. You will never know how much I appreciated that..
Just a thought...
I want to share a thought….
It does
not matter what happened to you.
What
matters is what you get from it.
Which something really did happened to me…
There’s a saying
‘If you think that you are the best in what you do, there is
actually someone that is better than you. If you think that you have the worst
life on earth, there is always someone who has worse than you’
So we should be moderate, in everything. Why do I say
this??? Mmmmm… When we think we are the
best, we won’t accept someone elses' ideas. We don’t even bother to learn, go to
course, search for new methods and whatever is necessary to improve what we already know which is definitely not right because we urged to learn and
gain more than what we already know now. Don’t you know that, when we
learn more, the dumber we become? What we know is actually only a drop of an ocean. So, how can we get ourselves stuck on the same stair
for a long time? We should improve
because the world is changing in every way. And it is definitely important that
you learn new things since the new wave of working and thinking are spreading
and yet you, still at the corner in your own world, don’t even bother to wake
up and ask. To keep still and doing nothing, is not good for you. You have to
stand up and throw away the ‘I am the very best and nobody is better than me’
attitude which actually isolates you from others who are improving,who keep on
moving up and excelling. Besides you don’t even realize that your friends are
actually much better than you even in the few years you have been friends. How can we
get acknowledgement when we are not performing well in what we do while
others are doing better than us? I am writing this so that I won’t be this pitiful
person who doesn't want to change. And I also hope that you also will
change and be ready for change in any area of your life and work. When
we are a moderate person, I am not that good and I am not that bad, thus I need
to keep improving so that I will do better in the future. Everybody deserves more.
Just a thought…