GESL
Ok, let me first present a brief summary of the week that has passed...
Monday was spent touching up the SCLP for my ICT module... and I discovered that there were some typo errors in the FLASH that I made after it was already submitted. Ah well. Let's just hope that my tutor is not able to notice the mistakes :P But then again... there's nothing I can do except to make sure that the copy that I have is correct... just in case I'm going to make use of it in the near future. Heh.
Nothing much for Tuesday... just a presentation and tuition in the evening. I think I work too hard sometimes... giving free tuition somemore. But... a student who is willing to learn is hard to find and the fact that her 'O' level papers are just round the corner does warrant my help. More late nights ahead. *notsniw searches for his sleep and manages to concuss*
Wednesday... I spent the morning churning out an essay that is worth 90% of the CA for a module. I hope it's decent enough to get at least a B grade for me. It was on "Ability vs mixed-ability grouping". It basically explores the various forms of ability grouping ie. banding, streaming and setting as well as mixed-ability grouping ie. just throw students into any class without ranking, with an analysis and comparison between streaming and setting, and between ability and mixed-ability grouping. My conclusion? There is generally a need for ability grouping... and setting is a good way to group students.
Thurday... Accompanied my NIE friends over to Eight Flags at NTU to purchase their laptops. Envy... ha. Super lightweight and small laptops. 1.3kg compared to my current 2.8kg. I'm so tempted to get a new laptop even though mine is only four or five months old. But... I think I still prefer a larger laptop screen. It's just the weight that is rather irritating. Tuition again in the evening.
Ok... now on to GESL, the main topic of this entry :P
The execution of the GESL project was finally concluded on a cloudy Saturday afternoon, after two half-days of activities for some primary one students in a neighbourhood school. I know that I will eventually be teaching in a secondary school... but it was nonetheless a very good experience for me.
I think it's really hardwork for primary school teachers to handle classes of 40 students each. Between my friend and I, we had 5 primary one students and we already couldn't really handle them. They just keep running about. Ha. But... they are really nice children. I think I learnt quite a bit from this experience... in terms of knowing about myself and knowing how to handle children.
I won't really go into the details of the activities. I'm quite glad it's over though (not in the "get-it-over-and-done-with" sense) and now it's time for me to really do my job as the group treasurer to settle the money stuff... by the end of the coming week I hope. Waiting for a school day when I can collect all the receipts.
There are some other things which I want to mention... but I'm tired now :P
Mental note: Marina KTV, assignments left.
Monday was spent touching up the SCLP for my ICT module... and I discovered that there were some typo errors in the FLASH that I made after it was already submitted. Ah well. Let's just hope that my tutor is not able to notice the mistakes :P But then again... there's nothing I can do except to make sure that the copy that I have is correct... just in case I'm going to make use of it in the near future. Heh.
Nothing much for Tuesday... just a presentation and tuition in the evening. I think I work too hard sometimes... giving free tuition somemore. But... a student who is willing to learn is hard to find and the fact that her 'O' level papers are just round the corner does warrant my help. More late nights ahead. *notsniw searches for his sleep and manages to concuss*
Wednesday... I spent the morning churning out an essay that is worth 90% of the CA for a module. I hope it's decent enough to get at least a B grade for me. It was on "Ability vs mixed-ability grouping". It basically explores the various forms of ability grouping ie. banding, streaming and setting as well as mixed-ability grouping ie. just throw students into any class without ranking, with an analysis and comparison between streaming and setting, and between ability and mixed-ability grouping. My conclusion? There is generally a need for ability grouping... and setting is a good way to group students.
Thurday... Accompanied my NIE friends over to Eight Flags at NTU to purchase their laptops. Envy... ha. Super lightweight and small laptops. 1.3kg compared to my current 2.8kg. I'm so tempted to get a new laptop even though mine is only four or five months old. But... I think I still prefer a larger laptop screen. It's just the weight that is rather irritating. Tuition again in the evening.
Ok... now on to GESL, the main topic of this entry :P
The execution of the GESL project was finally concluded on a cloudy Saturday afternoon, after two half-days of activities for some primary one students in a neighbourhood school. I know that I will eventually be teaching in a secondary school... but it was nonetheless a very good experience for me.
I think it's really hardwork for primary school teachers to handle classes of 40 students each. Between my friend and I, we had 5 primary one students and we already couldn't really handle them. They just keep running about. Ha. But... they are really nice children. I think I learnt quite a bit from this experience... in terms of knowing about myself and knowing how to handle children.
I won't really go into the details of the activities. I'm quite glad it's over though (not in the "get-it-over-and-done-with" sense) and now it's time for me to really do my job as the group treasurer to settle the money stuff... by the end of the coming week I hope. Waiting for a school day when I can collect all the receipts.
There are some other things which I want to mention... but I'm tired now :P
Mental note: Marina KTV, assignments left.
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