About Oneself, Philosophies and Goals in Life. (About Me)

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       Hi everyone. My name is Abhirammi a/p V. Kaneshwaran. I am 23 years old and I am an Indian girl. I was born on 09.01.1994 at Hospital Lam Wah Ee, Penang, Malaysia. I lives in Bukit Mertajam, Penang, Malaysia with my family. I am currently doing my degree in Bachelor In Education (HONS.) which is one of the UNITAR Program or Course at Sentral College, Penang. My family is a small family that consists of myself, my parents, V. Kaneshwaran (Father) and K. Yogeswari (Mother) and my younger brother, Linggeesh a/l V. Kaneshwaran. We live in a terrace-house.

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       I started my degree course in June 2015 and I am in my 6th semester right now. Throughout my degree life until today's date, I have managed to learn a lot of things that will be very useful for me to persuade my career life. For example, I have learned in detail on the correct methods of teaching and the Pedagogy Skills that are involved in a professional teaching and learning process that takes place in a classroom environment. Besides that, I have also learned and understood in more detail regarding what are characteristics that a teacher should adapt into themselves in order to become a professional educator in future. For example, patience and dedication to work are the most important characteristics that an educator should adapt into themselves as they need to be patience enough when handling students of different behavior, family background and financial status at school and at the same time, they should be dedicated to their teaching profession or career in order to develop their skills and professionalism in their career in future. In addition to this topic, I also managed to learn how to prepare a good quality of lesson plans which is a must for every teacher to know because lesson plans are the heartbeat of teaching.

  

       There are a few solid reasons why I choose to enroll myself in this specific degree program. The main reason is because I am interested to become an educator in future and this interest was in me since my childhood days. Besides that, my parents also encouraged me to become a teacher as they notice that I love to teach my friends when I was young at school and that act of mine made them to believe and have confidence that I had the passion in teaching in myself at young age itself. As time goes on, my interest in teaching started to increase and I have decided to move on with it. Therefore, me and my parents believe that if I become a teacher in future, my life will be successful.

       Besides that, another main reason why I wanted to become a teacher because I love to share my knowledge to others and I personally believe that teaching profession will definitely be the right platform for me to share my knowledge to others specifically to the students in schools or other higher educational institutes like colleges and universities whom are the future leaders of our country. I always believe that 'Sharing is Caring'. 

       Furthermore, I will also be able to gain new knowledge or ideas during the teaching and learning process that takes place in schools because as an educator, I need to deal with new syllabus that have new content when teaching the students in the classroom as the syllabus will be upgraded from time to time by the Malaysian Education Ministry.. According to the Great Mahatma Gandhi,'Live as if you were to die tomorrow, Learn as if you were to live forever.

       Next, I also wanted to become a teacher because I believe that teachers are the ones that will be creating many good human capitals for the country through their teaching process. Therefore, as a teacher, I am able to produce good human beings that will be able to contribute to the development of our country and at the same, my life will be more meaningful because I am able to produce good human beings that are talented and skilled in all aspects in future. A teacher has the magic to change any student's behavior through his or her skill.

       Everyone has a ultimate goal that they would like to achieve in their life. My ultimate goal in my life is to become a professional teacher. Besides that, my another ultimate goal is to integrate technology in the teaching and learning process that takes place in a classroom environment especially in teaching mathematics so that students' will have the interest in leaning mathematics and at the same time, I am able to develop Malaysian Education System to a higher level in future. In order to become a professional teacher or educator, I need to follow few steps in order to fulfill my goal and dream in life and make my life more meaningful as well in future. 

       Firstly, I must be able to produce students whom are skilled in all aspects or in short, holistic students through my teaching process. This is because I personally believe that students that are multi-talented or skilled in all aspects are the ones that will be able to do and participate in all type of tasks that are challenging to them. This kind of students are the ones that will be helpful in developing our country to a better phrase in future. When I am able to produce students that are holistic, I believe that I am professional in my career because I am able to accomplish one of the goals emphasized by the National Educational of Philosophy (NEP).

       Next, in order to become a professional teacher, I need to use or apply different types of teaching methods or techniques (Pedagogy Skills) when teaching the students in the classroom and do not apply one specific teaching method only when conducting teaching and learning process in the classroom. As a result, the students will start to feel interesting with my lessons and they will automatically have the interest to learn effectively the subject that I am teaching them and score excellent results in their examination in future. As an educator, pedagogy skills are very important for us because it help us to teach the students professionally and make them to have the interest to learn during our lesson in the classroom as well in future.

       In addition to this topic, in order to become a professional teacher, I should not only support students in terms of their curriculum aspects but at the same time, I should support them in terms of their co-curriculum aspects as well. This is because students in school might not only be good in curriculum aspects, but also might be good in terms of co-curriculum aspects (sports). So, as a teacher, I should also support them in co-curriculum aspects in order to help the students to improve their talents and brush up respective skills in sports and help them to become a successful athlete in future. For example, I can help to coach them in sports activities like running and hurdles through or during the co-curriculum period which is usually held at school once a week.

       There are a few effective teaching philosophies in education. However, the teaching philosophy that I will be emphasizing in my teaching process is the philosophy of existentialism. This philosophy was founded and inspired 19th Century Danish Philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard. The philosophy of existentialism is a philosophy that emphasizes individual existence, freedom and choice and it is the view that humans define their own meaning in life, and try to make rational decisions despite existing in an irrational universe. 

       There are a few solid reasons that made me to choose this specific philosophy in my teaching career. One of the reasons is because this respective philosophy allows or emphasizes the involvement and participation of students in the classroom and does not only encourages the participation of teachers (teachers-cantered) in the learning and teaching process that occurs in a classroom environment. As a result, the teacher-students’ relationship will be stronger in future because they will have the opportunity to work in group together and communicate in the classroom more frequently. Moreover, teachers are able to guide (scaffolding) the students when they need help from time to time by using this philosophy in their teaching process.

       Besides that, the application of this particular teaching philosophy in my teaching process allows me to teach students using different effective ways or methods like presentation and group works and not only to teach them based on text-books (text-book orientated). The participation of students and teachers are important in order to create an effective teaching and learning environment in the classroom. In addition to this topic, this could help me to have an effective teaching and learning classroom environment and the same time, allows me to create a professional teaching lifestyle in future.

       As a conclusion, by using this particular philosophy, I will be able to interact with the students more frequently in the classroom especially during the teaching and learning process. At the same time, I am able to see and monitor their education performance through their participation in the classroom from time to time. Moreover, I also will be able to recognize their weaknesses and try to find effective ways that can help to convert their weaknesses into their strengths. As a result, me and my students are able to develop ourselves in all aspects in future and I believe that this particular teaching philosophy will help me to define the standard of myself being an individual in my teaching profession in future. This is all from me. Please watch this inspiring video about teaching at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik4eGAxOdHg. Thank you.