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1. For you to make this activity, you are required to read…
1. For you to make this activity, you are required to read materials in Lesson 1. (see in the picture below)
2. Based on the article about issues or problems in schools, propose a programme if you are a school counsellor to rectify the issues/problems and complete the task below.
Need for exposure to the outside world
18 October 2015 @ 11:00 AM PENAMPANG: The three girls hide behind an outdoor toilet the minute they spotted a stranger taking their photograph from far at the remote village of Kampung Buayan, some 30 km from here.
They started jostling with each other to get to the main path before the tallest, Melissa Thomas, braved the calls from the lensman to continue walking with her siblings Clarice and Caroline, giggling in tow.
The girls, aged between 8 and 12, are from Kampung Pongobonon, a good two hours’ walk from their SK Buayan school where they are boarders at its two-room hostel.
They always walk together, says their elder sister, Ailly, 20, who lives in the village to look after Melissa, Clarice, and Caroline as well as their youngest brother Ryan, 5, who is in kindergarten.
Tasked with looking after her four siblings, Ailly voluntarily cooks and cleans and looks after the other girls in the hostel, at the request of their parents. The boys come under the care of the school staff. But like her siblings, Ailly, who never went to secondary school, is timid and shy.
The school’s Senior Assistant (Student Affairs), Zeabenia Mositon, 43, says in Sabah most native children from far-flung villages are generally shy and timid. “I was just like them,” says Zaebenia, who grew up in the village which is now reachable by a dirt road but only on dry days.
“When I was young, I would not dare look at adults in the eye, let alone speak to them. It was worse if they were visitors… I would hide from them. Our children may have similar traits but they are much better compared with us.” Zaebenia says after completing primary school in the village she attended secondary school at SMK Datuk Peter Mojuntin near the town as it was the only one with a hostel.
“I remained shy and timid but with seniors from the same primary school or those from the upper reaches of Moyog, we banded like a support group and prayed together. That helped us through difficult times.
This year the school has 40 pupils, nine who live in the vicinity while the others are from villages such as Pongobonon, Tiku, and Timpayasa which take between 30 minutes to two hours to reach on foot. Villager Alfred Michael, 32, said he was fortunate enough not to encounter any major problems when he was in secondary school but knows of others who were not so lucky.
“There have been cases where children from remote villages would run away and never return to school after being bullied, scolded, or even after the slightest form of intimidation,” He says children from these rural villages need “gentle” attention, especially in their early years. “Personally I experienced some problems but my father was a teacher and that is one reason I did not drop out.”
Read More: http://www.nst.com.my/news/2015/10/need-exposure-outside-world
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UNITAR In 1996, with reference to circular KP(BS
HEP|8543/80/[“1) from the Ministry of Education, dated 18
March 1996, full-time counselors were appointed in s…
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