And I have the students in Form 4J during my relief class saying that, “Teacher, you look good in baju kurung.”
Haha… Girls, thanks for the compliments! Guess that the very broad cutting of baju kurung hide away all my fat and make me look better =p
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Taught the Form 4T girls for the second time. I only have 15 girls in the class, four were absent and another five went for some activities and rehearsal.
Everyone is in holiday mood and some of them eventually yawned many times in the class. However, things become better after some group activities. Think that I should have more activities rather than just showing PowerPoint.
The girls asked for my friendster and MSN. Duh! They will be seeing my funny pics in friendster!
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I went back to campus this afternoon to see Prof. Wong as he missed out marking for one session in my evaluation form. Then I talked to him over my problem.
I have three to five students in the Form 1M class who cannot perform simple basic number operations, i.e. the girls have problem to solve “8-5=?” or “6+9=?”
Well, I have to admit that their level is too differing. Most of the Chinese girls in that class have quite strong basic. The Indian girls have average basic understanding. But most of the Malay girls have very weak basic. I will show you a simple summary of my girls’ performance here.
- I have 18 Malay girls. 2 of them passed their mid-year mathematics exam. (Actually I added one mark to one of the girl as she scored 39, less one mark to pass.)
- I have 11 Chinese girls. 9 of them passed. 3 of them scored are the top three scorers.
- I have 6 Indian girls. 3 of them passed.
Big trouble, isn’t it?
Prof. Wong said that my class is actually harder to teach as the difference in the girls’ ability is too great. I agree with that as I actually have the dilemma when doing my lesson planning after considering their ability.
It is a great challenge to teach a class with students of differ ability. I cannot go too fast but at the same time I cannot go too slow! I think that I am going to re-teach the integer part after the school holiday as I know that they will sure forget this part after two weeks! But this is an important fundamental skill for the following topics!
How can I make them remember and master the skill?
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Had my posting submitted this afternoon too. The feeling is like… Handing out something that is going to determine your future.
Who knows what is going to happen then?
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Best news of the day.
First, it is Thursday. Tomorrow there will be a belated Teachers’ Day celebration in my school. After that will be TWO WEEKS HOLIDAY!!!
Second, my Geology exam result is released. I scored A =)
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