今天耀杰的BB出世了！
3.48kg，真是一个胖宝宝！
明天将充满期待！
30 August 2006
29 August 2006
Passion and Comfort Zones
What was school about today? Coming in early in the morning to print the Teacher Pen Pic document and trying hard to complete the CA2 scripts for the students in case holidays come. Guess i am probably not going to finish them in time although it would have already been done if i can just sit down and mark the moment i reach home and not do anything else.
But that was hypothetical. Tough for a normal human being to do the life-reducing maneuvers.
So as usual, i try to do the things that would not be life-reducing and trying my best to mark the assignments... made the 2 sec 3 classes do some exercises (wonder if i can ever find time to mark them) and then it was going home time.
Talked with colleagues over many things at work, how to instill discipline and make students achieve better results. It's indeed tough running a school nowadays, with the many awards and agendas running amok in the system. Passion clashes with comfort zones and you might just end up offending the whole world in your pursuit of excellence. Guess it is just not easy to even do the right thing.
And then we are young as we thought ourselves to be and thus my only conclusion is still to do all that i can within my own limits. Strengthening my own circle of influence is better than trying to enlarge it since i do not have the ability for the latter.
But then again, many things are easy to say but hard to execute. Can only hope for the best!
But that was hypothetical. Tough for a normal human being to do the life-reducing maneuvers.
So as usual, i try to do the things that would not be life-reducing and trying my best to mark the assignments... made the 2 sec 3 classes do some exercises (wonder if i can ever find time to mark them) and then it was going home time.
Talked with colleagues over many things at work, how to instill discipline and make students achieve better results. It's indeed tough running a school nowadays, with the many awards and agendas running amok in the system. Passion clashes with comfort zones and you might just end up offending the whole world in your pursuit of excellence. Guess it is just not easy to even do the right thing.
And then we are young as we thought ourselves to be and thus my only conclusion is still to do all that i can within my own limits. Strengthening my own circle of influence is better than trying to enlarge it since i do not have the ability for the latter.
But then again, many things are easy to say but hard to execute. Can only hope for the best!
27 August 2006
Teacher's Day
一年一度的教师节即将来临！
朋友问我，学生有表示吗？我说今年两位毕了业的学生竟提早一周向我传达了教师节的祝福。还有学生对我说在庆祝活动当天会回来找我。
我想身为一名教师，最重要的并非是否收到最昂贵的礼物。记得我的老师曾对我说，如果你想要在短期内就看到自己是否能够的到所付出的回报，那么你将会非常失望；因为真正的回报往往要到了多年后才能看得清。
所以这次的祝福对我来已经是最好的礼物了。
朋友问我，学生有表示吗？我说今年两位毕了业的学生竟提早一周向我传达了教师节的祝福。还有学生对我说在庆祝活动当天会回来找我。
我想身为一名教师，最重要的并非是否收到最昂贵的礼物。记得我的老师曾对我说，如果你想要在短期内就看到自己是否能够的到所付出的回报，那么你将会非常失望；因为真正的回报往往要到了多年后才能看得清。
所以这次的祝福对我来已经是最好的礼物了。
22 August 2006
Right or Wrong?
Somehow i have the impression that nowadays, students are not paying attention in class during lesson and they think that it is perfectly fine.
If a teacher does his or her duty, the student will just give a very nonchalent or negative response. Let's take for example that a teacher is going through a passage and asked a particular student to carry on reading from where his classmate has stopped. -- The former is not able to read and attempts for the teacher to guide him to the exact spot of reading.
Teacher gets the impression that he is not listening, and asks him to stand up and wait for redemption.
He stood up and walks around!
Teacher asks him to quit walking around and stand properly with 2 legs and hands behind his back as it is a punishment for being inattention. He carries on behaving the way he was.
Teacher raised his/her voice, he responds with a simple one-worded answer, "what?"
Although it was looking quite innocent as was written in his face, was that an innocent mistake?
Baffling are students nowadays... ...
If a teacher does his or her duty, the student will just give a very nonchalent or negative response. Let's take for example that a teacher is going through a passage and asked a particular student to carry on reading from where his classmate has stopped. -- The former is not able to read and attempts for the teacher to guide him to the exact spot of reading.
Teacher gets the impression that he is not listening, and asks him to stand up and wait for redemption.
He stood up and walks around!
Teacher asks him to quit walking around and stand properly with 2 legs and hands behind his back as it is a punishment for being inattention. He carries on behaving the way he was.
Teacher raised his/her voice, he responds with a simple one-worded answer, "what?"
Although it was looking quite innocent as was written in his face, was that an innocent mistake?
Baffling are students nowadays... ...
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