What can you buy with £3 in London? Nothing much. Unless
you’re an LSESUMC member, then you can buy a whole buffet.
About one month ago the LSESUMC hosted an all you can eat
buffet for 50 people at Rasa Sayang. It was a bustling day, an occasion perfect
for mingling hungry souls. Satay, roti canai, char kway teow, you name it we
served it.
An event that truly brought a taste of home.
MENU
1. Chicken Satay
2. Roti Canai with Curry Dip
3. Char Kway Teow
4. Fruit Platter
5. Kueh Dadar
6. Teh Tarik
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| Char Kway Teow, Satay and Roti Canai |
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| All you can eat buffet |
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| A great end of term social event |
Underdogs to Champions – how these kids taught their teacher a lesson
“They lost by 3-15 in
the first set. We, the teachers, were already shaking our heads. Everyone wrote them off, including myself. No
one believed what would happen next.
They fought. And they
fought hard. Real hard.
Despite trailing
behind again in the second set, they came back time and time again, unwilling
to give up. By sheer willpower and grit, they forced a deuce and won the second
set 17-15.
The second set gave
them momentum for the third and their hard work finally paid off. At the end of
the day, they topped their group with pride.
These are mostly kids
from the "back" classes. These are kids I would feel so stressful to
teach. I scolded so many of them before for misbehaving, to the point where I
was already losing faith in their potentials.
And
today, they put me to shame for judging them too quickly. They reignited my
belief that there are strengths in every single one of them. They showed me how
to have some real steel, immense fighting spirits and undying perseverance.”
Teach For
Malaysia 2014 Cohort Fellow, Wong Theen Yew, an University of Oxford graduate
wrote this post after learning an invaluable lesson from his kids at a sepak takraw match. In choosing to join TFM,
Theen Yew said, “I joined TFM with one purpose in mind, that is to play my part
in building Malaysia, which has given me so many privileges in my pursuit of an
excellent education.”
Self
check!
Having had the privilege to obtain education within the
borders of a developed nation, we have the chance to look back and contrast
Malaysia’s education system against the UK’s. Where has that left us?
o
Do we understand the privilege we have received and the
responsibility that follows?
o
Have we considered, and then wrote off excellent education
for all children in Malaysia as an
unrealistic dream?
o
Have we forgotten that each child has his or her own unique
strengths,
and that each child is intrinsically valuable and worth fighting for?
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Have we judged too quickly?
More often than not, where a child is born
determines his or her whole life trajectory. As of 2015, one fifth of all
Malaysian children do not end up completing their secondary school education.
44% do not meet minimum proficiency levels in Reading and 60% do not meet
minimum requirements in Mathematics. (1) But it doesn’t always have to
be this way.
Every year, Teach For Malaysia selectively recruits the best and
brightest minds to be placed into high need schools across the country. Our
Fellows are employed full-time and are paid a salary competitive to fresh
graduates for two years. Over this course of time, our Fellows are coached and
trained, and will have the opportunity during their 2nd year to
initiate and implement their own project to address the problems within their
school and community. At the end of the Fellowship, Fellows will graduate with
a Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) and will have the option to either
continue teaching or seek employment in other sectors with our corporate
partners. Khazanah, Mckinsey, CIMB Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers are some of
our corporate partners who recognize our Fellowship as a prestigious leadership
development program.
Here at TFM, we constantly remind ourselves not to judge, but
instead to believe that there will be a day where every single child in
Malaysia will obtain excellent education.
Each child is special and valuable, and worth fighting for. Newton’s First
Law of Motion states that an object will continue its state of motion unless
acted upon by an external force. We are that external force. Join us and be a
part of the movement of change for the better.
Visit
www.teachformalaysia.org to find out more and join our movement
to fight against education inequity for the future of education in Malaysia.
Source: (1) Malaysian
Education Blueprint 2013 - 2025
