*yawn* another tiring day in school... been having a good realistic and eye-opening experience here - especially after my 13 years in the fold of being red-blue-gold.
had to save this blog as a draft as i've been rather swarmed by work, marking etc (i'm not complaining because i know the average teacher has more!). i'm just not used to it yet. so let's go back in time and talk about wednesday's story.
taught 2 different secondary 2 classes, and boy are they different! every class has their own peculiarities, culture and work attitude. more importantly, every class have different academic needs and interests. i believe that it is a (trainee) teacher's job to discover what those things are and to find the ways to help them grow. of course 'grow' is in itself a rather loaded term.
my geog CT and i managed to reach a good chemistry in teaching the sec 2 geog class. i am also very grateful to her for being able to jump right into the lesson when i had to deal with some technical difficulties.
*speaking of technical problems, it was just the problem of the projector not playing my videos from windows media player. to solve it, just make sure that when you do the "function F5"... select the option where it is "projector only" icon.
back to geog and CT. we also found a pretty cool way of acknowledging the livelier ones and to ask them to help get the rest of the class interested. this class is living geography if you ask me. why? it'll take a 1000 word essay to explain it. the strategy is to have a student arrow another student in 3 counts... so that there's a sense of urgency in the classroom.
oh yes... one more thing i've realised which is useful - it is the usefulness of worksheets to check for understanding! can never assume that students have read their textbook =) so even if you're showing a worksheet which has been cut and pasted from the textbook... they'll always think it's their first time reading it.
wonder if there are any students reading this. i started this blog so that i could share and learn from those who read it. at the same time, if you keep reading this blog, i am certain that your english language proficiency will get better! really!
(having said that, i never did well for english in school - O's and A's inclusive)
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