yo whatssup! okie i must faster get to the point lol. it will be a few series of entries. the last few entries before this blog will be dead for 2 weeks lol. you all can choose to read an entry a day or something. just nice nice space out lah. if not you guys will abandon my dear blog. in other words. hope you guys help me take care of my blog while i am away! :D i cannot come here for 2 weeks so you guys must do it in my place. haahahha.
okie get to the point. PART 1 of dont know how many parts.
this post is about teaching as a whole and 3J!! lol. okie lah other classes also lah heh.
i first taught 3J as a social studies teacher. like.. what de righttt! me? social studies? lol i was reliefing for miss mak. ahahha not typing her name here heh. well i know nuts about social studies. have not done a SBQ for like 2 years or more. they asked me how to do reliability questions. i was like wth?! lol how am i supposed to know.
nevertheless i tried to explain. i wrote 'cross-reference' on the whiteboard then i thought 'what the. better dont anyhow teach them.' so i erased it and told the class. 'i dont know.' they gave me the 'you are a teacher and you dont know?!' look. >_< diao.
lol for the rest of the sec3 classes that day i told them it was a test so they are not supposed to ask me. HEH. smart rightt!
due to a certain twist of fate. i am back in school! teaching 4A 4E 3E and of course 3J biology. it had been a hectic 2 weeks i swear. the schedule given to be is soo screwed up. the first few days i followed the schedule faithfully and ended up screwing myself up.
in the end i was pretty much deciding for myself what do to in class. practical or no practical. etc etc. so i pretty much did everything a typical teacher does. there are people who doubt my decisions as i am merely just a relief teacher. but i am thankful that mrs lim supported me and made things easier for me. alot people thinks that relief teacher is a slack job. shake leg all day get 65 bucks go home. go eat da bian lah. its slack if you dont treat it seriously lol. this kind of no backbone money you want to take? good for you.
marking assignments is a nightmare. i swear. its so duper super wuper sianzxzxzxz. whenever i reach the essay questions i pray that the student forgot to do. then woots! all i need to do is write a question mark! lolol.
for the two weeks i covered cellular transport, biological molecues, digestive system for the sec3s. okie only the last one is need to teach in class. the first two is just help them revise abit.
as for the sec4s i covered nervous system, eye, and transport in plants.
okie what i mean by covered means i need to enter the class with the knowledge about that few chapters. which totally sucks. because most of those chapters are not covered in JC. so i didnt touch that few chapters for 2 years.so those chapters are not really my forte. most of the time in class i look dam noobish. zzz. when a student ask me a question i need to stop and think and recall what i learnt dam long ago. dam noob right.
its totally different in sec1 classes. its not that they are lower level. but its that they are learning about cells etc etc. which i learnt in JC so the information is still quite fresh. i didnt need to prepare lessons i can easily go into class with only a marker and free style. soo cool right!
but for the upper sec is different. i used powerpoint slides omg. which honestly i dislike. totally restricts my teaching. and the slides totally steals the limelight from me. lol. they practically copy everything on the slides. which on the other hand is good for them. moreover those few topics i also not very strong. zzz.
those 2 weeks are the days where i frequent wikipedia till wah seh. lol. and its not i wiki about stuff like.. i dont know people's names or what not. i wiki biological terms. then i tried to read up. lmao. wiki is really amazing heh.
but teaching has really made me thankful and appreciate what my teachers have done. i gave me another point of view. its really not an easy job lol. i am that kind of lazy ass who wakes up at 12pm if possible. suddenly i needed to wake up 630am for 2 weeks in a row. omg i almost died. thats why early in the morning i always dam dao.
there are things i forgot that i am working. okie i totally forgot that i am working. right from day1 as a social studies teacher. i totally forgot that i am getting paid for what i do. i realise i didnt do it for the money already. this week tuesday i went back for napfa. i didnt went back because i get easy cash. honestly. its not a good enough reason for me to take just a long bus ride there and back. i went back to visit and see how are the students doing lol. after all i going NS soon. okie going ns later. -.- i need every chance i can to go back now.
but i dont know i will be teaching anymore. i never considered teaching as a life long career. i cant imagine teaching at an age of 40. i mean. maybe i find it fun now because i am still relatively young thats why i can relate to the students and interact with them better. when i become an old man how can i communicate with them?
i honestly hope that i never teach anything wrong during my brief teaching career though. :X i tried my best to make sure i teach everything correctly.
ohoh. aprils fool was dam fun lah! teaching gives me the opportunity to prank SOOOO many people at the same time! :D for 3J i used chrysanthemum tea to fake as URINE. LOL. for their biololgy practical. but i think they realised the next day. i never admit though. but their reactions to the 'urine' was soooo classic. seriosuly LOL. i even ask them to wear gloves when they handle the 'urine'. wahhahahaha.
oh i tricked them that the next day got biology test. somemore that day is cca day so they going home late. wah seh. they were so dam pissed that i tell them so last min. LOL. when i tell them it was a prank they felt more relief but even more pissed. LOL. shiokkk!
3E their practical i tricked them that it was a surprise practical test. even though it was april 2nd. :P some of them doubted me and thought that is was a prank. but i stayed cool and continued with the prank with my superb acting. wah then they all momentarily stunned. they didnt know how to react. they were not prepared. LOL. they just paused and stare in disbelieve. then i told them it was a prank they ZZZZZZZZZ. then one student asked 'mr chow what joy do you find in tricking us?' i grinned and said 'alot.' LOL.
4A had practical too. i went to take the frog sample and put on my table.
'okie class take your stool and come infront to the teacher's desk. okie later when you cut the frog you all must take note of the organs. this is the heart. can you all see? this long thing is the small intestine. blah blah blah.'
'mr chow whats the point of this practical?'
'what you mean?'
'like what chapter is this practical under?'
'sorry i dont believe in biology in the textbook kind of way. we dont just study biology to take exams.'
-all the woo and the ahhhs-
'okie later 2 person share one frog. each pair take a pair of forceps, white tile, and a knife and go back to your seats. i go take the frogs.'
-i exits the lab-
-i return shortly after-
'okie class actually today we are doing practical about boring transport in plants.'
'huh what happen to the frogs?'
'its an april fool's prank'
-everyone instantly sian diao- LOL. WAH SEH. you guys should have seen their faces. full of disappointment. wahahahahah. i am evilllllllll.
then during the practical one girl said 'wah bio dam boring lah' LOL.
on my last day 3J made use of me to pon their cca. lol i gave them extra lesson. okie lah its because next lesson they are supposed to have a test and they seem unprepared. and i needed to finish going through one assignment. after that we took a class photo! okie not full class. just with some of the students. but they have not sent me the photos! ): and basket! they used the visualizer to take photos of me secretly! zzz. idiots. heard they project it on the screen in school yesterday and zoomed in on my face. da bian lah. the visualizer photos super unglam can! >_< DELETE LARH ZZ.
they gave me a 'card'! okie larh its a a page of a magazine and a paper with messages written sticked to it at the back. it is dam cool. next time maybe i take photos show you all. then they cut out a photo of many sheeps. then they named all the sheeps with all the students in the class. lolol. then the fattest one they name me. da bian lah i am anything but fat CAN. but i really appreciate it! think the magazine cut up is si yi do one right! thanks alot to everyone(: lol because i am never good with names i didnt remember most of their names. so they gave me their class sitting arrangement list. because i still remember where they sit what. so i can check what are their names. lol so that i know who wrote what on the paper.
ironically on the last day of my teaching days. friday. i learnt most of their names. hahahaah. dont know why i suddenly was able to remember. 3J jiayou k dont give up on biology! most importantly dont give up on yourselves! heh okie larh all the students i taught before. jiayou bah! hope that i see you around next time if i visit rv!
eh not that i bias loh. just that 3E i got a few lessons kena koped away zzz. not my fault.
the sec4 classes. mr chow wanted me to go through mostly assignments. go through assignments also dont need teach alot what just sit there flash answers. so less interaction.
okie this is one long entry. zzz. i dont like writing long entries. because i know most people skip them zzz. diao.
i enjoyed teaching. i really did. i had fun! yes i agree it is tiring at times. but at the end of the day after seeing all the little kiddos. its all worth it!
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