Friday, April 13, 2007

hot brown sugah opens her trap yet again

of teachers and students

i've landed myself to a teaching gig at a certain secondary school. somehow, i think i've become less of a gangster and more of a wuss.... taking the students' welfare in mind, allowing them to go over my head anytime now. everytime i enter class, i try to recall how 'gangster' i was when i was 18 (turning 19), relief teaching at another secondary school. that was five freaking years ago. i was still the 'soldier wannabe fresh from NCC', treating the students like....well.... my cadets. haa! and it also doesn't help that i was conducting P.E. then. i try to treat the students now like how i treated the students when i was 18 but the subject i'm 'teaching' now is very different. its a new ball game now. i'm an engrish teacher now. and being a student once, i wasn't really serious about the subject. now, i have high expectations of the students and its just not reasonable of me to do so. i'm just afraid that they'll run amok in class and i'll get into trouble for that. heh!

and teaching maths was also defferent (did that when i was 20- turning 21), a month before i went to uni. maths is more of an objective discipline while english is so subjective.

the biggest hurdle now os to win over the NT class. i must admit that i've started off with the wrong foot with them because i appeared to be the strict-and-unreasonable-teacher-who-hates their-class-like-all-the-other-teachers. and the most daunting moment yesterday? i heard a boy who planned to 'bully' me just coz we're of the 'same race'. i've never heard of such 'plans' before when i taught the NT classes. i keep in mind that this subject is not the same as the other subjects i experienced with. my problem now is how to get 'that' boy to co-operate with me and influence his classmates to 'work' with me. he's one of those who didn't finish the work i gave them. i'm planning to reward the rest who did (with the cadbury party packs, how boring) but i have to do something to 'that' boy so that i'll get my message across. and i also do not plan to keep on giving them worksheets because i know its mindnumbing la. i've been there once. i want to make it interesting for them.

i came home telling my parents that i've got 'syaitans' to teach and i got reprimanded by the mother. she said whatever i say is a prayer and the more i call them that, they WILL be that. their parents won't like it if they find out that a teacher is naming them devils. funny, coming from the mouth that calls another person 'tak laku'.... isn't a mother's prayers more powerful? i can't say that she's wrong either. it was good advice, no doubt (even if the source isn't). so i call them my angels.....

angels of death (malaikat maut). hah!

oh yes, i've cut my hair for the second time in a week. in a bid to feel like a singapore girl. yes, perasan BIG time.

lowell, perasan=self-absorbed. ;)

have a wonderful weekend y'all!
cheers!

+ > the glamour babe posted at 4:23 PM < +