Teaching (edited)
After a month long hiatus, I woke up early today to finally join the guys for soccer at FICO. The toe still hasn't recovered yet, but like my friend said, "Play first, regret later." haha! Unsurprisingly, the long break has taken a toll on my fitness. I felt tired after a mere few games. This is bad. I have to regain back my fitness, I have to. I've always admire people with good stamina. It is something that I always aim to attain but have so far never been able to achieve. Where did I go wrong? Probably I didn't push myself hard enough and that more often than not, I've given up too easily. Hmm..
Stopped by at Ann-Tee-You-See to buy some stuff on the way home. Met one of the staff there who had requested me before to give tuition to her kids. And today, she asked me again and for the second time, I politely declined. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against tuition or teaching other people. I would love to if I'm 'fit' enough. But to me, to be a good teacher, you need to have confidence. Without confidence, you will not be able to deliver you stuff well and your message may not be brought across to your students effectively. And truthfully, I don't have this confidence. I myself am not entirely confident about my subjects, how am I going to teach other people? I don't want other people's kids to do more badly in their studies, rather than improving. Especially since her child has the ambition to become a doctor! Omg, if I were to tutor her, I'll definitely be ultra stressed! A wrong method of teaching and her wish is wrecked! -_-
And with this, I have to say that I have the utmost respect for all teachers and teachers-to-be. I think teaching is a noble profession which often does not get the amount of recognition that it deserves. It doesn't matter which level you're teaching, be it pre-school level, primary, or JC level etc. One of the qualities that I see in good teachers, besides confidence, is patience. Being patient and knowing how to control your students are important, especially in today's society where the kids' behaviours are somewhat different from few decades ago. I myself have never been a "truly-obedient" student back in the lower levels of school. I have made mistakes, some of them I wish I've never made. But one thing that I can never forget are all the teachers whom have taught me throughout my school life. To all of them, I can only say thank you. Thank you for teaching me. Thank you for imparting all the knowledge to me and correcting me when I make mistakes. Each and everyone of you have been an inspiration to me. Thank you for helping me become what I am today.
Oh, I also have to say that I think there is a big misconception that one's cleverness is gauged by where one attends his/her school. I don't really believe that being in NUS means you are clever. I am one fine example. If you ask me questions regarding what I've learnt during the early years of education, I think I would have failed terribly. Don't ask me how I got to NUS. You can call it luck or a miracle. Whatever it is, it just happened. lol.
Talking to the lady earlier kinda embarrassed me slightly. Because I can't hold a decent conversation in malay! I realised my grasp of the language is becoming poorer to the extent that it's hard for me to talk to someone in pure malay, meaning without the inclusion of english words into my sentences. To think that I once excel in this mother tongue language of mine, this is bad, really bad. I think I should start to watch more of malay shows and read malay books. And probably go and talk to people who can speak malay to me too! I have to restore my language proficiency as I don't want to be a laughing stock where people would say, "Hey, he's a malay but doesn't know his language!" Probably Sharon who is taking MALAY 3 in nus is already laughing too if she's reading this! haha
The long weekend has passed and school will resume tomorrow. I don't know how many times I've said this in my posts, but yeah, how time flies! haha. It's already week 5 this coming week! Gosh! Time to buck-up!
Till next time, have a good day! :)
Stopped by at Ann-Tee-You-See to buy some stuff on the way home. Met one of the staff there who had requested me before to give tuition to her kids. And today, she asked me again and for the second time, I politely declined. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against tuition or teaching other people. I would love to if I'm 'fit' enough. But to me, to be a good teacher, you need to have confidence. Without confidence, you will not be able to deliver you stuff well and your message may not be brought across to your students effectively. And truthfully, I don't have this confidence. I myself am not entirely confident about my subjects, how am I going to teach other people? I don't want other people's kids to do more badly in their studies, rather than improving. Especially since her child has the ambition to become a doctor! Omg, if I were to tutor her, I'll definitely be ultra stressed! A wrong method of teaching and her wish is wrecked! -_-
And with this, I have to say that I have the utmost respect for all teachers and teachers-to-be. I think teaching is a noble profession which often does not get the amount of recognition that it deserves. It doesn't matter which level you're teaching, be it pre-school level, primary, or JC level etc. One of the qualities that I see in good teachers, besides confidence, is patience. Being patient and knowing how to control your students are important, especially in today's society where the kids' behaviours are somewhat different from few decades ago. I myself have never been a "truly-obedient" student back in the lower levels of school. I have made mistakes, some of them I wish I've never made. But one thing that I can never forget are all the teachers whom have taught me throughout my school life. To all of them, I can only say thank you. Thank you for teaching me. Thank you for imparting all the knowledge to me and correcting me when I make mistakes. Each and everyone of you have been an inspiration to me. Thank you for helping me become what I am today.
Oh, I also have to say that I think there is a big misconception that one's cleverness is gauged by where one attends his/her school. I don't really believe that being in NUS means you are clever. I am one fine example. If you ask me questions regarding what I've learnt during the early years of education, I think I would have failed terribly. Don't ask me how I got to NUS. You can call it luck or a miracle. Whatever it is, it just happened. lol.
Talking to the lady earlier kinda embarrassed me slightly. Because I can't hold a decent conversation in malay! I realised my grasp of the language is becoming poorer to the extent that it's hard for me to talk to someone in pure malay, meaning without the inclusion of english words into my sentences. To think that I once excel in this mother tongue language of mine, this is bad, really bad. I think I should start to watch more of malay shows and read malay books. And probably go and talk to people who can speak malay to me too! I have to restore my language proficiency as I don't want to be a laughing stock where people would say, "Hey, he's a malay but doesn't know his language!" Probably Sharon who is taking MALAY 3 in nus is already laughing too if she's reading this! haha
The long weekend has passed and school will resume tomorrow. I don't know how many times I've said this in my posts, but yeah, how time flies! haha. It's already week 5 this coming week! Gosh! Time to buck-up!
Till next time, have a good day! :)
posted by AnDy AriEn at 3:29 PM
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