Now everyone can.. have an English board!

We've listened to the Minister of Education's request to bring back the 'past best practices' on English,
and without hesitation we bring back the English Language Board which had been incorporated in 90's.

Now we're so busy with ICT that we forget this trivial thing does help in English language learning.

I know that some schools don't have much allocation for the English board like below which could cost you a fortune:

So we come up with a better plan which is mostly applicable to all! Click read more.

Our Kindergarten Journey

Last Monday, a group of thirty-four trainees from the Diploma of Baking & Pastry course had the wonderful experience of visiting Keningau Vocational College's kindergarten for their social service and HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills). The trainees had made full use of the one week break to discuss some activities for the children.

As an English non-face-to-face activity, we thought this was the perfect opportunity to use a field trip experience to support and enhance our current learning into meaningful use of English since trainees would put into practice, all of the language knowledge they've been learning about over the past two semesters.

What makes it more interesting, you ask? They use the English language knowledge by teaching it to their adorable little brothers/sisters. Now they know how fun it is being a teacher! :))

The inspiring bakers are excited to have the opportunity to become the teachers for the day.

The reason why YOU should be using English today

This is an excerpt from the Reader's Digest, Dec 2013 edition. This copy and the other collection are available at the college's library! Instead of paying the expensive MYR15, you can savour it FREE OF CHARGE.

Bon Voyage!

Words don’t come easy to us when it comes to speaking on an occasion like this. All throughout our school life, we've seen batches of students being bade farewell by the school and in all those times, we've feared the day when it's the teachers themselves who will be among those stepping out of the doors of this institution for ever. Today, the time seems to have come for us too soon.

Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean we'll miss you until we meet again. 

We, at Keningau Vocational will definitely miss you the dedicated English lecturer, the ferocious warden, brothers to the peer lecturers and 'papa' to most of the students. Adios, Mr. Mohd Sharazi Zulkeffli! 

Photo Courtesy Siti Laila Photography

Go the extra mile

Under vocational college, we always value students' efforts, anytime, anywhere. As instance, in the recent English paper, one of the students didn't just elaborate the provided points, but she even came up with a point from the heart. It was so sincere that we almost cried.

Don't we all love extra tips, especially the one which is written from the core of the heart?

A New Corridor to English Learning: The Board Trendsetter

Not long time ago, Audrey Koh-Wiles (an excellent teacher from SMK Majakir) posted a snapshot of an English board from SMK Benoni. The idea was galvanizing, and a fellow English teacher, Mr Khalifah came up with this vibrant concept for our college. 

English language outreach can extend its grasp, thanks to sponsorship from the college's admin

English teachers rock!

SABAH TEACHERS ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMME has set up a portal for all of us.

Feel free to join and register as part of the online community at www.sabahstep.com.

English teachers are just a bunch of proactive lots!

A.I.M. NOT Anugerah Industri Muzik, kids!

Mr Sirhajwan and Mr Ibrahim attended a convention on the 31st of August (Sat). The story goes like this: Out of thousands of English teachers, one of the English teachers had been selected by the State Department and Ministry of Education for a 6 week study tour of America and had analyzed the great American Dream and its validity especially to secondary educators worldwide. 

Do you think you can spot us among the other hot English language educators?

It's on the news the next day!

Family Feud

The form 5 seniors are no longer participating in the co-curricular activities. We're sad that the seniors are no longer around, however, that don't stop us from having fun.

We have Family Feud to fill up the society's slot. So you know, Family Feud is an American game show in which two families compete against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey question posed to 100 people.

What If, Facebook Turns To Reality? Well, you tell me!

Technorama IT is one of the activities in the program inspired the Virtual School Club in 2002, where targets of this program is the primary and secondary school students in the whole of Sabah. To implement this program successfully, IT Development Division, Ministry of Resource Development and Information Technology has partnered with the State Education Department and the State Educational Technology Division.

Only selected schools are lucky enough to have the golden opportunity

The selected students are attending the Digital Story Telling (DST) course to produce a short film

Wanna see their film? Click read more below.

Sabah leading the way in enhancing English: Yap

Published on: Sunday, June 09, 2013

Kota Kinabalu: Thumbs-up to the State Education Department for having taken the steps to implement the Education Blueprint (2013-2025) from the perspective of enhancing the proficiency of English teachers.

‘Past best practices’ incorporated in teaching English in schools

KOTA KINABALU: Newly-appointed Deputy Education Minister Datuk Mary Yap has suggested that “past best practices’, including prioritising aspects of grammar be incorporated into school teac

hing methods for the English language.

She opined that there was a need to bring back proven best practices to improve the standard of English in schools.

Mary said the Education Ministry was aware of the issue of the English Language, which had been constantly debated in the media, particularly the unfavourable results on English proficiency in the Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) examination.

“That’s why the Ministry of Education is seriously looking into ways and means to address this issue in line with the government’s transformation programme.

Strike a Pose!

The English Language Society (ELS) in collaboration with the College Library was proud to organize ‘Strike a Pose!’ photo-shoot session. The event had tested the students’ creativity in promoting Keningau College Library as the knowledge source. It was also in conjunction with the National Reading Month.

Enhancement and amazing activities were being executed with the aims to encourage reading and to expose students to different divisions in the library which sometimes were overlooked. The deeds would cultivate students’ interest in reading as well as empower the college’s library as the hotspot to gain knowledge.

There are two challenges:
1) Imitating the Poses on Book Covers.

MBMMBI: Annual Grand Meeting

Heyy guys, I'm at Quality Hotel, Selangor. I'm attending the second meeting of MBMBI (Upholding the Malay Language and Strengthening the Command of English ) under BPTV. And this time around it's more fun as I've met many new faces (some even at my age, too!). So there's a lot of sharing happening around here. We also prepared a plan for 2013. 

Among the handsome guys at the meeting

M.O.M 2.0.. No, not your MOM.

Merdeka! What were you doin on that day? Me? I spent precious time collecting ideas for teaching English creatively with dedicated, awesome, outstanding, amazing, stupendous teachers who travelled from every corner of Sabah from 7am - 5pm on Merdeka Day, Meeting of Minds (M.O.M) 2.0 SPM Sharing was a complete success!

Time, effort, money and energy are well spent listening to the Queen or the Goddess of English educator, Madam Audrey Koh from SMK Majakir.

You think you can spot your handsome English lecturer? Hint: in stripes