Being a teacher.....

The important event that happened this week was the cip that the school had embarked. it is very different from the ones that i have in Singapore. In Singapore, the events that i had done are flag days, marshals etc. This time, however, i went to a school in the less developed area of Beijing. This school, if in our education system, will be providing primary and secondary education. This school houses children of the migrants. Beijing, in recent years, have been developing rapidly. Thus it will need more manpower. As such, people from the poorer states of China will move to Beijing to find jobs. When they can't find a job, they will move to another location. As a result, their children will have disrupted education and they can't attend the normal school in Beijing. Next, the standard of the school in terms of facilities and infrastructure is not as good as the ones in Singapore. We has always been comparing our school with others. You will be shocked to find that there is not even one proper basketball court. Worse still,there is no dustbin in the classroom.All of the rubbish were thrown to the back of the door. We have 80 mins to teach them. My team and i had planned to teach a couple of topics but we only get to finish one of it. Nonetheless, i feel that we have done quite well. We taught them about occupation. The class was spontaneous when we ask them questions. However, we heard some disturbing answers like they want to be assassins, hackers etc. Of course, there were students who were not listening and these people had some weird hairstyles which will be surely not be accepted in Singapore schools. Our objective there is not to help them to master English language but to learn how to interact with the students and experience the whole process and the joy of teaching. At that place, i finally feel the difficulties of teaching. it is never easy to control a class and keeping the students interested throughout the lesson. I can also learn some lessons of life. Although they have difficulties to pronounce the words, they never give up. They will keep trying until they get it.i think that we should applied that to our studies especially since we have o-level next year. it is pivotal that we understand the necessary concepts.

---written by yangle