the teaching chronicles 2

Hi!
It's the end of a long Thursday in school. I will still stay back further to prepare for my observation, which has been shifted to 16th Friday, but a quick email break first.

Yes I "personal email" in school a little, I also surf the motherhood forum occassionally but very quick browsing, and ibank. I figure I need some relief now and then, so heck care.

You've reminded me of the poster, haha I will print it out now.

I just came from a relief Eng supplementary class of one of the most hopeless P4 classes. I listen to their form teacher complain constantly about them. So I knew there was not much change of teaching anything, I just had to nanny them. Plus with the new English syllabus now, Stellar or wadever, there is no ready textbook so it's difficult to just pick up from a point and teach. Classes like this make me wonder how to educate those in the class who can and want to learn! The mix of students are so disruptive it really is pointless.

It's classes like these that scare me about teaching, one day I also will kena such a class and I don't know how I'm gonna handle it!

The good thing is that I notice many of the upper primary classes in this school have a co-form teacher, which I think must be reassuring esp if you have a difficult class - at least you can take turns to scold and discipline! And can complain to someone who understands!

I am given most of the SOW and resources, but there are missing material here and there, but like I mention at this point I've given up hounding them for things esp. since mine are the "relief" and lite classes. Just to give you an idea of how onz the people here are about the lite subjects, the HOD of Soc Studies & Health Ed (same lady) told me to get the SOW from her online sharing folder, and all of the folders and documents are titled 2008, 2009! Haha! No 2010! I assume those must be the working copies so I didn't bother to check with her la! Sets the tone of the subject's importance already, doesn't it?

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I'm looking forward to tomorrow, a short day. I'm gonna add oil for the lesson plan now so that I can enjoy tomorrow!