Monday, June 25, 2007
A new beginning wif Teacher Preparatory Programme...A NEW BEGINNING WIF TEACHER PREPARATORY PROGRAMME...
I'm about to start my journey of teaching...will I stay for long?? or will I back out halfway?? God knows! Either way, I juz wanted to track all my teaching experiences frm Day 1, n so tis blog was created...Thanks for ur support..haha!!
Just started reporting 4 duty on 18th June, juz de week right after my church camp holiday at Genting...quite sian...as i din hav much time to get over my "jet-lag" or rather, "holiday-mood-lag" since genting n here got no time diff..haha...but thankfully got no vigorous brain activities for tat week...mostly settle admin stuff except for a 2-day teacher preparatory programme, which was a crash course to teach us de ropes of teaching cuz we hav to do enhanced sch experience 4 a mth b4 starting NIE courses...de trainer I got for tat crash course was like..WOW..she's been in teaching for like 38 years liao!! wonder if i can stay tat long...haha...n she's earned her position as a cluster superintendent, so i guess her 38 years were well spent!! And she was oso ever de discipline mistress...haha...n she had an innovative way of punishing students..hehe..cuz de demerit point system makes students feel tat de more points they hav, de greater they r...apparently it din work..so she actually stopped it, n punished em by making em stay back in school to do cooking instead...n those who were punished were actually guys...quite LOL...haha but it worked!! Those students were proud of de pizzas n snacks tat they made, n proudly shared it wif others... So, moral of de story, an effective punishment requires innovation too..hahaha...den she gave us de theories of how to manage a class effective, they were gd, but nt sure if i'll actually rem n apply em when i'm teaching..hehe..but we had a gd time though, listening to her stories n experiences in school..haha..got to noe sum others who oso teaching chem n maths like me..hee so we can share lesson materials next time..hee!!
I've gotten my posting 4 enhanced sch experience liao...n it's to a neighbourhood sch..n i'm actually glad abt tat!! but shall nt reveal which sch it is for now first..haha...heard tat most ppl wld rather nt handle neighbourhood schs due to its discipline problems...but i tink i'll rather handle discipline problems of students rather than de high expectations of parents n students frm gd schs..stress...well, actually both hav stress, but I myself having grown up in neighbourhood schs (I'm frm jurong pri, jurong sec, jurong jc btw..haha n i stay in jurong east oso.. a pity got no jurong uni..haha), feel tat i might be able to relate better to neighbourhood kids rather than those fm gd schools...yup, so quite looking forward to my 1mth stint!! Only thing is tat I dun tink i look fierce enuf...or rather, firm enuf..students see me wil tink i can be bullied one..lol...my former sec sch teacher ever got bullied by a class n she ran out crying in tears...hope tat doesnt happen to me..it'll be one of my worst nightmares!!! Jia you miss loh!!
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Lyna