Visit to Tunku Putra International School
On Thursday, 8 February 2007, my classmates and I visited Tunku Putra International School to collect information for our assignment. We arrived there at about 1pm and was brought to see one of the coordinator, Mr. Eric. We were supposed to interview the principal but because she couldn't make it, Mr. Eric represented her instead.He lead us to his office where all of us took a seat around his room. We interviewed him for more than half an hour asking about the organizational structure of the school, who has formal authority over teachers, their roles, the amount of formal authority that they have, the division of labor and specialization in the school and whether there's a narrow or broad span of control.
Besides answering our questions, he also talked about the school, their curriculum, activities, lessons, testing and evaluation, teachers, students and so on. All these are extra knowledge for us where we get to know the school better, the way they manage it, their courses and syllabus and so on. He also told us that they'll be moving to their new campus at Petra Jaya during their mid-term break. Their new campus is really big given the 22-acre spacious site. Its a very nice campus. He showed us some pictures of the new campus. Here are some too.
After interviewing him, we toured around the school. He brought us to every classrooms to have a look. We even had the chance to go into a Primary 1 classroom to observe how the teacher teach but it was only for a short while. The kids are soo cute. There are students from different countries like Korea, Japan, Australia, Canada, Britain, Taiwan, Singapore, India and many more.
During the last minute, we were able to meet the principal so we went into her office to meet and have a little talk with her. She's Dr. Sue Collins from New Zealand. A new principal who just started her job there about 5 months ago. She's a very nice, friendly lady that anyone can meet. She talked to us about her experiences lecturing in a Teacher's Training College in New Zealand. She also told us that she'd be very happy to show her doctorate thesis to us...lol. Not only that, she kept repeating that she'd be very happy to see us back in her school to do more research for our assignments and that she'd be ever ready to help in whatever she can. She also personally told us that when we graduate, if we want to work in her school, we can always see her about it. See? We got an advantage there already....haha! Before we leave, we took some group pictures together with her and Mr. Eric. We reached our campus at around 3pm. Will upload the pictures we took when I get them from Daniel. Thats all for now. Tata!
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