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Working life that works / Saturday, April 03, 2010 @ 12:40 AM
At the end of the session, I was also surprised again when partner informed me of a generous contribution a parent made to the SN fund. The fund that we used to buy tea, coffee and refreshments for PSG. Wow, I really feel so appreciated, even though I thought this PSG could have been better if I were given more time to prepare and I was not so stressed out.
The person I want to thank the most if my lovely partner! SP!! She always managed to capture the memorable moments at work and I am always so appreciative of her!! I think things would be pretty different if she was not around in the first place!
Yes, sometimes we do whine and complain (even though whining is not really my style) but partner is the only person at work that I feel truly understands my perspective and way of thinking and working.
SOooooooooooooooooooo a BIG thank you to my partner and here's to many more happy moments at work!!! Muacks!!
Working life that works
Today, someone asked me, if I would switch to be the regular teacher if given a chance to do so.
I said no.
Clear cut. I have always known what I want to do in life and I have never regretted the decision to take up this job. Yes, the pay is not that great compared to the traditional teachers, but the level of personal satisfaction exceeds those of the regular teachers. Furthermore, I feel that my students are closer to me than to their regular teachers, simply because of the uniqueness of my job.
Yes, I did whine a bit about the paperwork in my previous posts but I am always so thankful to have bosses who understand, and who do not push me for results. (So far, so good.) Even when I got to know that one of our colleagues from another school got promoted and he is 1 year our junior in terms of working experience. Its ok to me, but sometimes, I really wished the authorities could have shown more us more appreciation with the painstakingly hard work that we have done so far. Oh well.
However, I guess the main reason why I still continue to enjoy my job is the people.
My colleagues, my students and of course my students' parents.
1 week ago, I had my first PSG for the year and it may seem easy running PSG but trust me, it is not. Even though I have been running this for almost 3 years, I still have to crack my brains to think of new ideas for each PSG meeting.
I was actually at a loss of ideas....until a conversation with my student sparked my interest to once again touch on self esteem.
I said no.
Clear cut. I have always known what I want to do in life and I have never regretted the decision to take up this job. Yes, the pay is not that great compared to the traditional teachers, but the level of personal satisfaction exceeds those of the regular teachers. Furthermore, I feel that my students are closer to me than to their regular teachers, simply because of the uniqueness of my job.
Yes, I did whine a bit about the paperwork in my previous posts but I am always so thankful to have bosses who understand, and who do not push me for results. (So far, so good.) Even when I got to know that one of our colleagues from another school got promoted and he is 1 year our junior in terms of working experience. Its ok to me, but sometimes, I really wished the authorities could have shown more us more appreciation with the painstakingly hard work that we have done so far. Oh well.
However, I guess the main reason why I still continue to enjoy my job is the people.
My colleagues, my students and of course my students' parents.
1 week ago, I had my first PSG for the year and it may seem easy running PSG but trust me, it is not. Even though I have been running this for almost 3 years, I still have to crack my brains to think of new ideas for each PSG meeting.
I was actually at a loss of ideas....until a conversation with my student sparked my interest to once again touch on self esteem.
And so I did.
Did a survey on my darlings from P3 and P4 and they really did not show any alarming signs of low self esteem. Except for one or two. I cannot help feel that the reason the survey showed such good signs of self esteem is because of my intervention with them so far. Not that I am saying that I am good. But I think I should have done this survey before and during/ after my intervention. Then that would have been measurable.
Anyway, partner helped me get the food which tasted soooooooooooooooo good. I think I ate most of it. I do not know why the parents are not eating the food as much as I expected them to. Shy perhaps?
It was almost full house, with a few 'new' parents joining us. It was not full attendance, as usual but it got me thinking, if everyone turned up, the LSP room would be too small. Which is a really good problem to have! Sometimes I do worry that after putting in so much effort to organise the PSG, not many parents will be interested to turn up. However I am surpised time and time again. I thought people may have lost interest since this is my third year running this. Their attendance alone was enough to keep me going.
I am also so thankful and amazed by my invited parent speaker who was sooooooooo good. Really really awesome, I am so blessed with such parents around. I was also surprised that a parent voluntarily came up and share. It will be boring if I am the only one who kept talking so I thought that some of the 'senior' parents sharing was really great.
Of course helping me run this was the team. Especially Cat, my trainee who helped carry things and clean up, even my boys who helped arranged the table. Even though I feel that I am the one organizing and running this PSG, I always feel that I received whatever helped I need by the people around me. I feel so blessed.
At the end of the session, I was also surprised again when partner informed me of a generous contribution a parent made to the SN fund. The fund that we used to buy tea, coffee and refreshments for PSG. Wow, I really feel so appreciated, even though I thought this PSG could have been better if I were given more time to prepare and I was not so stressed out.
The person I want to thank the most if my lovely partner! SP!! She always managed to capture the memorable moments at work and I am always so appreciative of her!! I think things would be pretty different if she was not around in the first place!
Yes, sometimes we do whine and complain (even though whining is not really my style) but partner is the only person at work that I feel truly understands my perspective and way of thinking and working.
SOooooooooooooooooooo a BIG thank you to my partner and here's to many more happy moments at work!!! Muacks!!
