i will need quite some time to get used to windows 7.0 and microsoft office 2010.
anyway i will like to share with you one of my joys of teaching. one part of teaching that i enjoy alot is when students come to me to for advice, for example on their future choice of tertiary education, or any stuff that got to do with their personal life, and after listening to my advice, they 茅塞顿开。
just now at around 9 pm i received an sms from my ex student. she wanted to ask me about jc stuff. during sec one and sec two, she was a problem kid, always giving trouble, and all the teachers have a bad impression of her. as a result, she screwed up her sec 2 streaming and got into the last express class in sec 3.
her sec 3 form teacher did not give up on her, believed that she has leadership potential, and made her the class chairperson. from then on she took up the role with pride, and executed the duties of chairperson efficiently (because she was a notorious ah lian and all the students scared of her). she started to realise the importance of studying and studied hard for her o levels, and she was the top student of her class, getting 10 points for L1B4 and 13 points for L1B5.
i taught her class chemistry for 10 weeks during my practicum, and that was how she got to know me better. on and off we will chit chat for a while when we see each other in sch, and once a while she will come and ask me questions on chemistry.
so just now we talked on the phone for 20 minutes regarding her options. she did not take A maths during o level because she was in the last class, so she cant go to a science stream because she will die terribly if she took h2 maths, and she wants to do h2 bio or h2 chemistry. she also wants to do h2 econs because she wants to go study business at ntu or nus.
and she told me she regretted being so mischievous during her sec 2. of course i told her now is not too late, and i am really happy seeing her mature so much and having turned over a new leaf.
she is a success story that i will share with my students.
last week, i had given the gangster of my form class the role of chairperson. hahaha. he accepted the role readily. and 2 days ago he thanked me sincerely for giving him the role. :)
