可怕的学生是否就是幼小心灵对制度的呐喊与反抗？
排名，考试，文凭，功名利润……社会对成功的定义是先考得好成绩，然后才踏出下一步。
有一张像样的文凭，平步青云便不是难如登天。但是却有人说，把孩子变成书呆子，那么到了商场打拼也只是送羊入虎口而已。所以我们的学生在争取顶尖的考试成绩以外，还必须在课外活动熬出一个春天来。
于是时间似乎变得奇快无比，每天似乎都有做不完的事物，而之前的"钱不够用"逐渐转变成"时不够花"。
面对沉重生活压力的孩子于是纷纷采取了斗争，大人们就说他们目无尊长，都是一些不合群的失败品。
但试问，我们大人有曾经问问他们："你的童年是否快乐？"
29 September 2006
Why Students Don't Do Well
Was chatting with some of the teachers in the staff room when the topic of students working hard for their studies came springing up again... u know, the usual... why are students irresponsible and so on. .. compare to last time how come so different..
Then it occurred to me: could it be due to the more and more competitive society nowadays? People has less time and thus parents become more inadequate, children sensed that parents are always not around and begin to think that they are not important at all.. thus they do not work hard, thinking no meaning out of all these.. .and thus u have "bad" students!
haha just a theory.. just a thought.. nothing is confirmed... i am just making my own hypothesis :p
Then it occurred to me: could it be due to the more and more competitive society nowadays? People has less time and thus parents become more inadequate, children sensed that parents are always not around and begin to think that they are not important at all.. thus they do not work hard, thinking no meaning out of all these.. .and thus u have "bad" students!
haha just a theory.. just a thought.. nothing is confirmed... i am just making my own hypothesis :p
Struggle
We hope to see the unit improving as from the end of the exams and onwards... it was a tough time of adapting to the 5 day work week but i think we are gradually getting used to it.
Its been trying and it will carry on to be.
School has been a mad rush, and everyone seems to be losing grips on themselves. Today Mr Kwok says the chick has to struggle out of the egg shell itself in order to survive. Yet we all seem to feel that many students are still inside their egg; did they still not realise? Or are they just simply refusing to excel?
Its been trying and it will carry on to be.
School has been a mad rush, and everyone seems to be losing grips on themselves. Today Mr Kwok says the chick has to struggle out of the egg shell itself in order to survive. Yet we all seem to feel that many students are still inside their egg; did they still not realise? Or are they just simply refusing to excel?
23 September 2006
Being a CI
If you ask me what is the one thing that will ensure that our unit becomes strong as it was again. The only answer would be time and commitment from the people who are leading it.
Many a time we overlook the most important thing: spending time with the people of whom we teach.
We care about skills and standards and we spend a lot of time on structure and know-how. But at the end of the day, it is the very spirit that counts.
Do not come back as a CI with the only thought as to pass down your skills but rather to ensure that the very spirit of what is human and love of being in the unit is ever continued.
Love your cadets, tell them the meaning of love and with that all other things will flow.
Many a time we overlook the most important thing: spending time with the people of whom we teach.
We care about skills and standards and we spend a lot of time on structure and know-how. But at the end of the day, it is the very spirit that counts.
Do not come back as a CI with the only thought as to pass down your skills but rather to ensure that the very spirit of what is human and love of being in the unit is ever continued.
Love your cadets, tell them the meaning of love and with that all other things will flow.
Info for the 71st Batch CI Course!
"71ST BATCH NPCC CADET INSPECTORS' BASIC TRAINING COURSE
I am pleased to inform you that NPCC HQ is organising the above-mentioned course. The details of the course is as follows:
Course: 71st Batch Cadet Inspectors' Basic Training Course (Residential)
Duration: Friday 08 December 2006 - Saturday 23 December 2006 (including a 4-Day-3-Night ATC at Pulau Ubin) "
haha and thinking back i think i was from the 49th batch... old already :p
I am pleased to inform you that NPCC HQ is organising the above-mentioned course. The details of the course is as follows:
Course: 71st Batch Cadet Inspectors' Basic Training Course (Residential)
Duration: Friday 08 December 2006 - Saturday 23 December 2006 (including a 4-Day-3-Night ATC at Pulau Ubin) "
haha and thinking back i think i was from the 49th batch... old already :p
21 September 2006
3G Rocks
This is my very treasured piece of Teacher's Day gift from my beloved class! haha i know very 肉麻 but bear with me la.. haha!
Another part of my personal life shared? :p
Another part of my personal life shared? :p
20 September 2006
Mission Impossible
Today yet again another brush with some of the infinite problems that we have to face everyday.
There are people who insist that interest should be the top of the agenda when we are talking about character building and the teaching of values. What interest should we talk about when there is even no responsibility in the first place?
But then environment and culture does play a very important part in the shaping of hearts and minds, and it is the very thing that we hope to be instilling in the students' minds.
Having the heart to do things is just not enough.
It's the shaping of the environment.
It's tough.
It's requiring more than just the effort of 1 or 2 persons.
It takes identification of the same goals.
It takes an awful long amount of time.
But it is possible.
There are people who insist that interest should be the top of the agenda when we are talking about character building and the teaching of values. What interest should we talk about when there is even no responsibility in the first place?
But then environment and culture does play a very important part in the shaping of hearts and minds, and it is the very thing that we hope to be instilling in the students' minds.
Having the heart to do things is just not enough.
It's the shaping of the environment.
It's tough.
It's requiring more than just the effort of 1 or 2 persons.
It takes identification of the same goals.
It takes an awful long amount of time.
But it is possible.
19 September 2006
A Challenge to Ourselves
During activity today i wanted to bring the remaining sec 3s out for a run. 15 were gathered and the last i looked back, there were only 5 who came back to the finishing point.
Then reality seems to ask me: is the unit as good as it should be? What are we producing in the calibre of our cadets?
Are they determined?
Can they take hardships?
I took a piece of paper and i gave it to the squad nco and told him: this is our target before the year of 2006 is over -- complete the PE running route as a squad.
Can we do it?
Then reality seems to ask me: is the unit as good as it should be? What are we producing in the calibre of our cadets?
Are they determined?
Can they take hardships?
I took a piece of paper and i gave it to the squad nco and told him: this is our target before the year of 2006 is over -- complete the PE running route as a squad.
Can we do it?
17 September 2006
RunForHope 06
This is the finishing point after the long and wet 9km run! Shiok! oh ya.. .forgot to mention that there were a lot of people who joined the run.. hundreds... maybe even thousands! ... then after that MQ and I were discussing if we should join the full marathon.. . but then shall have to train if we do sign up! maybe run around the school or something... anyone up for grabs for the full marathon? :p
RunForHope - Terry Fox Run 2006
Haha this is the rainy Terry Fox Run. Could not take much of the scenery during the run as it was raining cats and dogs! Quite heavy so i had to deposit everything at the counter and start running 9km with my colleague cum good friend! Was quite a good run, and the feeling was great. Then after the run had to tremble in the cold cold wind... reminds me of the time when i went waterfall trekking with my Uni days OG.. haha... Now thinking of Standard Chartered Marathon... haha... 蠢蠢欲动！
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