Brunei SM SMJA CASE STUDY ON PROMOTING HUMAN VALUES-BASED WATER AND SANITATION AND HYGIENE EDUCATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN SCHOOLS THE SCHOOL Sekolah Menengah Sultan Muhammad Jamalul Alam (SM SMJA) is located near the capital of Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan. It is one of the oldest government schools in the country and was built in 1950. It began its operation in 1951. It is now one of the leading schools in Brunei Darussalam. The school is made up of several blocks, which include instructional classrooms, including science, home economics, woodwork and computer laboratories. In addition, the school also has numerous non-instructional rooms such as the library, canteen, reading room, resource room and administrative office. There are 113 teachers who are dedicated in providing the optimal education needs to the 1,127 schoolchildren from Secondary 1 to 5. These schoolchildren also come from different socio-economic backgrounds. Since April 2008, the school has been headed by its Acting principal, Cikgu Hjh Sipiah Hj Sawal. From this school, there were four selected project teachers who underwent the workshop. They are from four different subject fields – Mathematics, English, Geography and Science. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION The facilitators consisted of three officials from different departments within the ministry of Education. The different teachers covered certain topics which were relevant to the task at hand i.e. water conservation. For Mathematics, the topic was Mass, which is a subtopic of Measure and Money. This lesson was conducted in a two period lesson, which lasted one hour. The students from Secondary 1B were selected as one of the project classes. The teacher used the ICT lab through the use of PowerPoint as well as handouts. This provided a more visual approach to relaying the topic at hand. A comprehension lesson was carried out in Secondary 1F for English. The students were provided handouts, which included numerous exercises – vocabulary (words related to water conservation), information transfer and also brainstorming. The story was one that was created during the workshop. Besides the writing exercises, general questions were also asked to elicit explicit and implicit information. In Geography, a lesson on the Water Treatment Plan in Tutong (in Form 1B) where a discussion was conducted about how our water gets processed stage by stage. In the lesson, the teacher also highlighted how lucky Bruneians are. Here, water is abundant and clean compared to other countries such as Africa. The teacher also asked them to stipulate about given situations related to water scarcity. Another teacher from the Science Department conducted the lesson on ‘Volume of Liquid’ e.g. water. The lesson was conducted in the class. Teaching aids provided were measuring cylinders, drink cans and boxes as well as liquids in bottled. Students were asked to read different volumes of water in measuring cylinders. Later, students were asked to form into groups to discuss how water is used everyday and which of these include wastage of water. Teacher-students discussion was then carried out afterwards. RESULTS The outcome of the program did lead to an observable change in the students to some extent. The students’ attitude towards water increased slightly after having those lessons. This is expected because attitude takes longer time to develop. With continuous guidance from teachers and parents, they might show a significant change in their attitude. Through the observations made on some of the selected students from the project classes, the following are observed:
LIMITATIONS The limitations lie in the fact that three out of the four project teachers are not teaching Secondary One. The project was stressed more on the Secondary One students’ as they are the starting points for the ongoing observations. The teachers who are not teaching Secondary One had to take some of the respective subject teacher’s lessons resulting in a disruption of their class time. RECOMMENDATIONS
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