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You can call me Noi! This blog consists of my thoughts. I am just a simple person with BIG dreams! Like the charcoal, hot pressure and extreme heat must be present in order to create a Diamond. I am in the exact same process.
End of school holidays / Time? Where? / Liar Liar / Some pictures / Miao Miao / Right Track / Bored to death / Clean up to save your health / Too sweet for reality? / Loving Life /
I have no inspiration for a tittle today / Thursday, June 28, 2007 @ 9:42 PM
Actually there are so many things that I would love to pen down here but due to time constraints, I am unable to pen down all that has been going on.
Tuesday BBS was awesome! I was so blown away, I just cannot believe that were were sitting at the last row of the whole auditorium! I can relate to Ganesh as he is very logical, and usually its the logical people who really get this business. Haha. He gave some statistics and it all make sense to me even before he mentioned it. Furthermore it was extra special as it was Nafs birthday! Happy birthday! Birthdays to me is a time to reflect. I am sure sure that no matter what difficulties you might have now, it may not even matter in future so quit worrying so much! The future is bright for you!
This week I did informal assessments on the boys. Due to lack of time, I was not able to see 3 boys and now I am wondering when am I ever gonna get to asses them. Going through the in service training at the same time is crazy! There are so many readings to do and finding time to do that is a constant challenge to me. I just have to make use of my bus and train waiting time to do all the required reading. It is so ironic that we are trained not to stress the boys with dyslexia out by giving them too much reading, but WE have to do all these readings. Isnt that so ironic??
Anyway I was so excited when my first batch of resources arrived! Yay! I am till waiting for the rest to arrive next week. After the shocking revelation by my VP that he does not have a room for me still, I figured that I should stop whining and complaining and start thinking of solutions. Therefore, I bought a trolley (yes the ones the bring to the market!) and I will be shuffling all my teaching materials to and fro the school starting from next week. I was also so dissapointed that the renovated rooms just next to the field belonged to the secondary school. Jimmy and myself were scouting around the school for suitable rooms for our classes and those rooms were perfect. After seeing my shocked and dissapointed look, the VP kinda reassure me that they will definately give me a room once they settle the timetable shuffling. It was a blur answer to me, and I am still left unsettled. I guess I shall be using the conference room as a temporary classroom and hope it does not affect the boys learning.
It is not that I am trying to be pushy but like I said, once the resources arrived, I cannot be shuffling them to and fro in the trolley right? My RO has this idea that all the resoruces will go to the teachers resource room? I wonder why since the only person who will be using the resources will be me? Isnt it easier to placed everything in the SSN room? Common sense right? I think there has be some blurred issues and some miscommunication so I shall be initiating a meeting with my RO to clear up some things that both she and me are unclear about.
I was so inspired today after visiting the SNO in Gan Eng Seng. She was so professional and I was simply amazed by the unselfish sharing and time spent with us today. She taught me to always be sure of what I am doing, and that communication and building rapport with the teachers are the key ingredients to making life at school easy. I cannot wait to set up my own room but of course that has to be put on hold for now. Hopefully this wait is not too long.
The last few sessions for in service training touched on self esteem. It was mentioned that:
You cannot raise someones self esteem higher than your own.
This is especially vital when dealing with dyslexic children where self esteem reaches the rock bottom level for most cases. Even though the trainer managed to successfully deliver the message that having a teacher should have good self esteem themselves, my question is, how do we keep our self esteem up, even in bad times?
I am just thankful that I am in the Britt sytem as it is my assurance of my self esteem staying high. I am just sorry for those SNOs who are not because it is really a big loss not to be educated by the system.
I promised some pictures! This is the teachers staffroom during the holidays!
Guess what? It will be like this again on Monday due to schools closure for Youth Day! Sob!
I have no inspiration for a tittle today
Actually there are so many things that I would love to pen down here but due to time constraints, I am unable to pen down all that has been going on.
Tuesday BBS was awesome! I was so blown away, I just cannot believe that were were sitting at the last row of the whole auditorium! I can relate to Ganesh as he is very logical, and usually its the logical people who really get this business. Haha. He gave some statistics and it all make sense to me even before he mentioned it. Furthermore it was extra special as it was Nafs birthday! Happy birthday! Birthdays to me is a time to reflect. I am sure sure that no matter what difficulties you might have now, it may not even matter in future so quit worrying so much! The future is bright for you!
This week I did informal assessments on the boys. Due to lack of time, I was not able to see 3 boys and now I am wondering when am I ever gonna get to asses them. Going through the in service training at the same time is crazy! There are so many readings to do and finding time to do that is a constant challenge to me. I just have to make use of my bus and train waiting time to do all the required reading. It is so ironic that we are trained not to stress the boys with dyslexia out by giving them too much reading, but WE have to do all these readings. Isnt that so ironic??
Anyway I was so excited when my first batch of resources arrived! Yay! I am till waiting for the rest to arrive next week. After the shocking revelation by my VP that he does not have a room for me still, I figured that I should stop whining and complaining and start thinking of solutions. Therefore, I bought a trolley (yes the ones the bring to the market!) and I will be shuffling all my teaching materials to and fro the school starting from next week. I was also so dissapointed that the renovated rooms just next to the field belonged to the secondary school. Jimmy and myself were scouting around the school for suitable rooms for our classes and those rooms were perfect. After seeing my shocked and dissapointed look, the VP kinda reassure me that they will definately give me a room once they settle the timetable shuffling. It was a blur answer to me, and I am still left unsettled. I guess I shall be using the conference room as a temporary classroom and hope it does not affect the boys learning.
It is not that I am trying to be pushy but like I said, once the resources arrived, I cannot be shuffling them to and fro in the trolley right? My RO has this idea that all the resoruces will go to the teachers resource room? I wonder why since the only person who will be using the resources will be me? Isnt it easier to placed everything in the SSN room? Common sense right? I think there has be some blurred issues and some miscommunication so I shall be initiating a meeting with my RO to clear up some things that both she and me are unclear about.
I was so inspired today after visiting the SNO in Gan Eng Seng. She was so professional and I was simply amazed by the unselfish sharing and time spent with us today. She taught me to always be sure of what I am doing, and that communication and building rapport with the teachers are the key ingredients to making life at school easy. I cannot wait to set up my own room but of course that has to be put on hold for now. Hopefully this wait is not too long.
The last few sessions for in service training touched on self esteem. It was mentioned that:
You cannot raise someones self esteem higher than your own.
This is especially vital when dealing with dyslexic children where self esteem reaches the rock bottom level for most cases. Even though the trainer managed to successfully deliver the message that having a teacher should have good self esteem themselves, my question is, how do we keep our self esteem up, even in bad times?
I am just thankful that I am in the Britt sytem as it is my assurance of my self esteem staying high. I am just sorry for those SNOs who are not because it is really a big loss not to be educated by the system.
I promised some pictures! This is the teachers staffroom during the holidays!
Guess what? It will be like this again on Monday due to schools closure for Youth Day! Sob!
