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OBSERVATION

Teachers are role models of the students eyes. They are responsible for

the training and education of youth of the country. The future of our country are

depends on the kind of education that our youth receive. Thats why a teachers

role is difficult. Every teacher in this country needs to be more effective and train

themselves so that they will be prepared to be useful citizen in this country.

These kinds of skills are important especially for those teachers who are very

commitment in their career. Tokoh Guru is award that will be honors a teacher.

It is an important award, because lots of commitment, spirit, effort and academic

qualification to gain this award.

Based on those criteria of, we decided to introduce Tn. Hj. Abdul Karim

Bin Mohamed as our Tokoh Guru. Tn. Hj. Abdul Karim was 57 years old. As we

know, one of the criteria to be eligible for the Tokoh Guru is the teacher who is

50 years old and above. There are lots of experiences as an effective and

innovative teacher. Based on our interview, he said that he comes from a large

family and he was born at Hospital Batu Pahat, Johor on 6 th May 1949. He is

married with Diah Binti Bakri in 1973, and now they have three sons and fourdaughters with twelve grandchildren.

For the beginning of his education, he started his study at Sekolah

Kebangsaan Bagan, Batu Pahat. After that, he studies at Sekolah Menengah

Kebangsaan Agama Maahad Muar. Then, he continues his study in form six at

Sekolah Menengah Semerah. After that, he furthers his study at Maktab

Perguruan Raja Malewar with qualification which is Sijil Perguruan Asas in

Pengajian Agama. After he finishes his study, he graduate and he was post at

Sekolah Kebangsaan Alor Gajah, Perak in 1972 for his first school. Tn. Hj. Abdul

Karim is an active teacher who participates in all programmed at the school. He

also sling many post in that school.


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After twelve years in that school, he furthered his studies at University

Putra Malaysia in Bachelor of Education in Information Technology in year 1984.

After he graduated he continued teaching at Sekolah Tinggi Port Dickson until

1987. In 1992, he was promoted to be a principal of Sekolah Menengah Agama

Pedas for ten years. In 2002, he was offered to join Jabatan Pelajaran Johor as

Pengarah Hal Ehwal Pelajar until he retired. A few months ago, he completed

his Master Degree at University Malaya through long distance learning and now

he finally fulfilled his time with a contract teaching at Sekolah Seri Murni, Shah

Alam. He has a good credibility that is why he should be the role model for every

teacher in profession of education.

Tn. Hj. Abdul Karim believes that every body must have a philosophy of

life. Philosophy of life is a well coordinated and systematized attempt at

evaluating life and the universe as a whole (Autor, 1998). Based on our interview

with him, he has a philosophy of life as his guide in his life. His philosophy of life

is Practices Makes Perfect. Tn. Hj. Abdul Karim believes that nothing is

impossible in our life. What important is we must do something again and again

until we can do it successfully and never give up. This philosophy of life is very

useful for him to achieve his goal setting. He was the best role of an effectiveteacher.

As an effective teacher, Tn. Hj. Abdul Karim is positive people, oriented

toward and optimistic about his own and his student success. He told us about

his plan for the future and his target. As he told us in our interview session, Tn.

Hj. Abdul Karim wants to further his study and his target is to gets the Doctor of

Philosophy or as known as PhD. In addition, he makes sure that all of his

children, grandchildren and also his student can become a good person with high

qualification. He believes that there is no full stop to gain knowledge. This spirit

has proof that he has high expectation of success in his life.


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Because of his attitude and characteristic, Tn. Hj. Abdul Karim was

awarded as Tokoh Guru for the state level of Johor Darul Takzim in 1999. He

was selected among 25 candidates who were nominated for Tokoh Guru award.

The acceptance of that award was prove that he is a person who properly to

receive the Tokoh Guru award for this year.

One of the characteristic that is listed from The Ministry of Education for

Tokoh Guru award is excellent as a teacher. Tn. Hj. Abdul Karim is rightly

recommended as a candidate because he has the criteria of an effective teacher

like knowledgeable. As we know, Tn. Hj. Abdul Karim already has a Master

Degree from University Malaya. It is proof that as a teacher, knowledge is very

important. He also gets the knowledge from the number of courses and seminars

that he has attended. For example Bina Insan Guru, Kursus Seni Khat

Jawi,Kursus Kepimpinan and Seminar Peningkatan Profesionalisma Guru-

guru, Ketua Bidang Teknik dan Vokasional. He used his knowledge to cooperate

with other teachers to increase the result of examination at all the school that he

teach. That is why he got many award for his achievement.

The second criteria for the candidates to be awarded as a Tokoh Guru fornational level is the candidates must have an excellent contribution to teaching

profession. Tn. Hj. Abdul Karim has a great experience and gives a big

contribution to the teaching profession especially in his own state, Johor Darul

Takzim. He attend many course related to co curriculum activities. He has

attended a course about the rules of ping pong and the rules of badminton. Then

he was selected as a judge for variety of competition in his school and out of the

school also.


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The Ministry of Education also reserved that student should actively

involve themselves in outdoor activities. When he was still a teacher, he has

always conducts a visit programmed with his group of students to visit the

historical place especially in Malacca. Not only that, there is many program was

in charge by him like Hari Kantin and Malam Kebudayaan which is not only

give students a chance to take part but also can make some money to school.

This show us that Tn. Hj. Abdul Karim is excellent not only in the classroom, but

also actively take part in outdoor activities with his student.

As an effective teacher, Tn. Hj. Abdul Karim is encouraging and

supportive of his students. This is important when students are reluctant to begin

new task or when they experience difficulty and frustration. He uses this

advantage to cheer up his students when they loose in their game. But, he had

once lead the sports team when he was taught at Sekolah Tinggi Port Dickson.

His team won the best team in Majlis Sukan Sekolah-Sekolah Malaysia in 1991

because of his motivation to them.

The last characteristic that is listed from The Ministry of Education for

Tokoh Guru award is social contribution. Credibility and trustworthiness that Tn.Hj. Abdul Karim has create a supportive environment where the communities

trust him to be their leader. He is the President of Persatuan Rukun Tetangga in

his housing area. He also takes part in all programs around his housing area like

gotong royong and kenduri. Tn. Hj. Abdul Karim also a point of referrence for

the opinions and ideas to solve their problems. So, he is a best candidate that we

choose as our Tokoh Guru 2006.

According to the interview session with Tn. Hj. Abdul Karim about

indiscipline issue among student, he said that he thinks indiscipline in school is

caused by many factors in society. With regard specifically to indiscipline among

children in schools, parents, teachers and adult role models in society, all have to

share responsibility for this problem. For him, it starts however with parents


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because they are the children's first teachers and if they fail to find appropriate

ways to discipline their children then the responsibility falls squarely on the

shoulders of the teachers who cannot effectively discipline and teach the

cirriculum without the help and co-operation of the parents and children. Tn. Hj.

Abdul Karim also said that the society in general must take blame for the recent

decline in moral and spiritual values which helped to shape the characters of

young people into becoming disciplined citizens. The removal of corporal

punishment in schools have caused even more indiscipline to develop among

students, not because it was necessarily the wrong thing to do, but because it

was not first thoroughly discussed among all parents, students and teachers with

a view to replacing it with measures of discipline that are just as or more

effective.

For his experience, when he was being as a principal at Sekolah

Menengah Agama Pedas, he was attacked by the group of students. They said

something that nonsense to him. They also threw him with bottles and they

scratched his car. Tn. Hj. Abdul Karim has punished them and meets their

parents to solve the problem. He feel thankful to God because they are become

aware with their fault and promise not to do it again. He believe that teachers feelmore vulnerable and are increasingly attacked by students and parents, who feel

that they now have the right to behave as they like with no effective consequence

to their actions.

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