Friday, January 04, 2008
2nd day at work.
i don't like the rush to sch on the bus.
super squeezy.
wondering if i can manage to find someone to give me a lift. xp
my major achievement today!!!! such a freaky day. today i got organised and sure of what i'm supposed to be doing, armed with a timetable as well as a schedule that the teacher had left for me. i had 2 classes today. both sec 4 classes. wad an experience!!!! the major achievement was when i single-handedly taught 51 students (2 combine classes) housed together in an all-too-small computer lab with not enough chairs and computer terminals. to boot, they were the rowdy students of normal acd stream. i had a slping girl that i managed to talk to and got her to do some work, a handful of cheeky guys and (thankgoodness) girls who behaved. i survived with the consolation that some students were nice to me smiling to me and thanking me. was so trying that when i sat down in the staff room, i found out that i was literally trembling.(!!!!)the other geog teacher whose class i took because he was not free at that time slot actually gave me a pat on the back and told me that i had achieved the impossible. haha what a joke... oh at least during this class the elesson that they were supposed to be viewing was available... which brings me to another lesson before it.
i had another lesson before that and once again it is a combined class. one class had 2 students doing geog and 25 from the other class. poor students (i mean the two lonely ones from that class). the elesson was not to be found. being the FIRST lesson that i ever conduct, i panicked!! so time was wasted and i did not finish what i had started out to do. so left with 25 mins or so, i had to do a frantic memory check and actually held a verbal revision lesson with the class. thank goodness my memory of geog-rivers is still not bad. xp and i also learnt something impt today. students will give you due respect if they see that you do know your stuff. if you seem unsure, that's when they feed you to the sharks.
2nd day... reflections. teaching is tiring but i think i'm liking it so far. 6 months i wonder if any time i would change my opinion. the other relief teachers and i, good friends already. =)
i NEED clothes. fullstop.
-i keep seeing shadows of you in the people i meet. that's how much i miss you and i mentally chide myself time and time again.-
i don't like the rush to sch on the bus.
super squeezy.
wondering if i can manage to find someone to give me a lift. xp
my major achievement today!!!! such a freaky day. today i got organised and sure of what i'm supposed to be doing, armed with a timetable as well as a schedule that the teacher had left for me. i had 2 classes today. both sec 4 classes. wad an experience!!!! the major achievement was when i single-handedly taught 51 students (2 combine classes) housed together in an all-too-small computer lab with not enough chairs and computer terminals. to boot, they were the rowdy students of normal acd stream. i had a slping girl that i managed to talk to and got her to do some work, a handful of cheeky guys and (thankgoodness) girls who behaved. i survived with the consolation that some students were nice to me smiling to me and thanking me. was so trying that when i sat down in the staff room, i found out that i was literally trembling.(!!!!)the other geog teacher whose class i took because he was not free at that time slot actually gave me a pat on the back and told me that i had achieved the impossible. haha what a joke... oh at least during this class the elesson that they were supposed to be viewing was available... which brings me to another lesson before it.
i had another lesson before that and once again it is a combined class. one class had 2 students doing geog and 25 from the other class. poor students (i mean the two lonely ones from that class). the elesson was not to be found. being the FIRST lesson that i ever conduct, i panicked!! so time was wasted and i did not finish what i had started out to do. so left with 25 mins or so, i had to do a frantic memory check and actually held a verbal revision lesson with the class. thank goodness my memory of geog-rivers is still not bad. xp and i also learnt something impt today. students will give you due respect if they see that you do know your stuff. if you seem unsure, that's when they feed you to the sharks.
2nd day... reflections. teaching is tiring but i think i'm liking it so far. 6 months i wonder if any time i would change my opinion. the other relief teachers and i, good friends already. =)
i NEED clothes. fullstop.
-i keep seeing shadows of you in the people i meet. that's how much i miss you and i mentally chide myself time and time again.-
