Thursday, August 07, 2008
/ 11:34 PM
First time blogging on my school's laptop. In fact, this is the first time I brought it home. Amazingly, I was able to access the school's folders with the VPN connected. Well well, I guess I'll be bringing it home pretty often from now on.
Getting slightly sick of talking about work all the time. I hope I can get a very good rest over this long weekend. Haha, pity my girls, I just gave them assignments to complete over the weekend. Oh yes, provided they are hardworking enough to do my work of course. My girls... sigh.
I'm going to get a new class soon. Really soon. My first encounter with gifted kiddos. According to their form teacher, they are naughty, but it is fun teaching them. Hmm. Well well, they can't possibly be worse than my 7 princesses.
A colleague asked me to provide some inputs on how I used to understand what I was learning. After some amount of reflection, I realized that even though my ability and independence level varied over the years, understanding was the outcome of three important stages, namely, thinking over what we have read, writing down what we have thought, and discussing what we have written. I think I have been fortunate over my years of education since JC as I have met teachers who are willing to guide me.
Spent around an hour typing that email, and then, i had to send a reply for guzheng. Sigh. I still have lots to mark. And lots of girls have not handed in their work. And I wonder, how am I going to survive the next 4 years.
Time to rest. Argh.
Getting slightly sick of talking about work all the time. I hope I can get a very good rest over this long weekend. Haha, pity my girls, I just gave them assignments to complete over the weekend. Oh yes, provided they are hardworking enough to do my work of course. My girls... sigh.
I'm going to get a new class soon. Really soon. My first encounter with gifted kiddos. According to their form teacher, they are naughty, but it is fun teaching them. Hmm. Well well, they can't possibly be worse than my 7 princesses.
A colleague asked me to provide some inputs on how I used to understand what I was learning. After some amount of reflection, I realized that even though my ability and independence level varied over the years, understanding was the outcome of three important stages, namely, thinking over what we have read, writing down what we have thought, and discussing what we have written. I think I have been fortunate over my years of education since JC as I have met teachers who are willing to guide me.
Spent around an hour typing that email, and then, i had to send a reply for guzheng. Sigh. I still have lots to mark. And lots of girls have not handed in their work. And I wonder, how am I going to survive the next 4 years.
Time to rest. Argh.
