Truancy Among Students

As growing age, truancy is not a new phenomenon in Malaysia. jibe to dictionary, truancy means act or condition of being dispatch without permission. It also means any intentional unauthorized absence from compulsory schooling. (Pearson Education Limited). Truancy happens because pupils establish no saki in studies. A very strict teacher also affected the interest of student. Apart from that the pendant taught was too boring or difficult but they have to take the subject for examination.In addition, most of student thinks truancy is best way to run away from any problems life. This leads to immoral activities such as vandalism, burglary, substance abuse and gang activity. Thus, to avoid the truancy become more critical have it off among Malaysian school students the Ministry of Education have to take action by solving this problem. How do they make it? There are suggestions to reduce truancy are the ministry have to enhance skill of teaching, counselling armed service and o rganize lectures and campaign.Teacher needs to improve their skill of teaching so that the students result enjoy every upshot in the class as problem of truancy can be prevent. In other hands, teacher should make class more interesting. In the class teacher is not only use the textbook book as material but also make a video or drama activities because our brain easily get bored and tired of monotone learning. Therefore when students learn something with enjoyable it will immediately store in long term memory and students were able to understand.Teacher should give students chance to congressman out their opinion in the class. So that teacher is not talking much alone when there are two-way communication between students and teacher. This make a process of learning were help students result in school as truancy will be decreased. In the nutshell truancy become a top issue among Malaysian students in order produce a great future generation. According to a survey conducted by mi nistry, 58. 5 per cent of truancy cases last year involved student in rural areas as compared with 41. 45 per cent in cities. This affected the increasing rates of even off problems in schools. However, there are strategies to reduce truancy whereas the ministry take part overcome this problem by enhance skill of teaching, counselling service and organize lectures and campaign. Reference 1) Kgsilou. blogspot. com/2012/03/truancy-among-school-children-rampant. html 2) Pearson Education Limited