About 30 of academic staff trooped to Pan Borneo Hotel, Putatan on the 22 to 23 March 2018, for a scheduled staff professional development seminar, with the theme “Power-Up a Good Lecture.”
Designed specifically to boost lecturers’ presentation skills and paving the way for interactive learning, the seminar focused on incorporating different teaching methods in classroom for effective sessions, and understanding the need of students (personality) through fun and interactive inquiries testing methods; as well as collaborating with relevance.
Acknowledging that the participants are SIDMA lecturers who are also teaching future educators, Datu Razali encouraged them to expand their network through building collaboration not only with the local communities around them, but also building connections with other institutions of higher learning.
The lecturers were also exposed to an engaging session with Datu Razali Datuk (Datu) Hj. Eranza, who is one of the trainer for the seminar and has acted as one of the panel for the Malaysia Education Blueprint. The engagement provided a platform for the lecturers collaboratively discussed and tackled different issues with relations to the 11 transformation in the Malaysia Education Blueprint.
It’s mid-December 2017 and the SIDMA September 2017 Semester Final Examination will start on 28 December 2017, while UNITAR Sabah Semester October 2017 Final Examination will begin on 2nd January 2018; nevertheless the way to keep the student and staff happy and not too stressful is by being entertained and happy through this busy month by incorporating Christmas celebration into this magical December.