Myself, Goals and Philosophy

Hello everyone. Welcome to my mini world which is the blog, of course. Well, my name is Durasheeny Shanmugam. I was born on the 18^th July 1994 which makes me to turn 22 this year. Officially, I am a citizen of Penang which means I was born and raised in Penang for almost 22 years by my beloved parents. I am a very passionate person, especially in arts because that is what I will do whenever and wherever I am in this world. Specifically, I love to do drawing whether it’s on a piece of paper or on a person’s body. It also known as Henna, the Indians traditional art. I love myself to be surrounded with food and music. These are the two things that can never be separated from me because they make me feel better when I am sad, happy or stress. Everyone around me knows me very well as I am an open- minded person. I accept criticism as the way it is.

So far I have done my STPM and now pursuing Bachelors of Education in UNITAR (Penang regional center). All this while I thought teaching is just about standing in front of a class and teach. But no doubt after pursuing this course I found that there are lots of work that need to be accomplished by a teacher behind the scene. Well, it is not as easy as I thought it would be. As my semesters goes on for this course, I started to learn more things about teaching such as the skills that a teacher need in herself in order to be more effective and make the classroom an effective place for the students to learn.

In the first place, I chose teaching because it was my parents dream that they wanted to see me as a teacher. To be honest, it wasn’t my cup of tea. But then as time goes on, I really got inspired by some of my former teachers who taught me in my secondary school where they made teaching as a fun thing to do with the students’ involvement. After that, my lecturers who taught me for the past two semesters had given me an opportunity to see what teaching life looks like. Thanks to them. There are ups and downs in their lives yet they still managed to give the best education to the students who are depending on them. They have really given a great impact and inspiration in my life to become a teacher.

The goals that I would like to achieve in the future is to complete my degree life successfully and become a teacher in a school obviously. This is mainly to gain my self-confident and also to gain more experiences in teaching that I would probably need in order to continue my Masters in Education. As I know, age is not a matter to get education. It is just the initiative and opportunity that we can grab at the moment. Not everyone can be a good teacher and not everyone can be a good learner. It is all depend on ourselves in which category do we want to fall. I am eagerly waiting for the moment where I can open my very own tuition center as well as a private school where all the children can get free education and strives for excellence among them. Of course, I need the help of the NGOs. I would also love to adopt few kids from poor family and help them out in terms of education and physiological needs. I also really want to share whatever I have learnt before and after being a teacher to my students.

As a teacher, one must have a philosophy which she thinks that gives a meaning to her teaching and learning process. As for me, I would most probably choose experimental-ism. The reason why I chose this because I certainly believe that each and every classroom we might enter will be a place to do some experiment. It can be the abilities of the students, the way the students learn things and the pedagogy skills that we going to use is effective or not. As a person who always do experiment, I couldn’t just stand in one place and teach as well as for the students. I will certainly make the classroom a fun place to learn and let the students to open their hearts and voice out their opinions about me, the subject as well as the activities that I might conduct in their class. Feedback can really help myself to improve myself and the skills that I am going to use in the future. As an experimentalist, I will be more precise in student-centered learning process rather than me being the strict rule who controls the entire classroom for the entire period. It will be more fun and the students will be more excited to learn more.

I really hope that you had a great time reading my post. Please do leave a comment if you really think that this blog is being helpful for you or the mistakes I have done. Thank you so much and have a marvelous day ahead.