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Trisha Reloaded: November 2006
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Dedicated to Trisha, as always. Dedicated also to L, my source of inspiration, and the reason why I choose to see the bright side of teaching. Friday, November 17, 2006. Being a parent of an 8-year old girl, I'm often asked by other parents if my girl is taking this or that lesson. Like, is she taking piano, swimming, or ballet lessons? Does she go for abacus lessons, or Kumon (since she's struggling with Maths in school) or Speech and Drama (since she's quite shy)? You'll know it's all worth it! Parents...
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Trisha Reloaded: June 2007
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Dedicated to Trisha, as always. Dedicated also to L, my source of inspiration, and the reason why I choose to see the bright side of teaching. Wednesday, June 20, 2007. I didn’t think it would come to this, but it did. My daughter L presented me with her mid-year report card, and suddenly my almost perfect world of gungho teacher, modern mother and superwoman-wanna-be fell apart. Is it possible for a teacher-mother to have a child who almost flunked her exams? The result of my naivety? Does it bother her?
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Trisha Reloaded: August 2006
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Dedicated to Trisha, as always. Dedicated also to L, my source of inspiration, and the reason why I choose to see the bright side of teaching. Wednesday, August 30, 2006. It didn’t seem like so long ago that I wrote this. And today, 8 months later, I see my students in the same classroom, heads bowed low in full concentration as they wrote their English essays for the preliminary exams. Punctuate your dialogues properly! Don’t put a comma there! And he said, (sniff) Thank you for the 2 years of guidance&...
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Trisha Reloaded: December 2006
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Dedicated to Trisha, as always. Dedicated also to L, my source of inspiration, and the reason why I choose to see the bright side of teaching. Sunday, December 31, 2006. Do we really need tuition? In 2007, I would have to make a major deicision concerning my daughter and it's got to do with tuition. Specifically, it has to do with whether I should get her a Maths tutor because she scored just over 60 marks for her Pri 2 SA2 last year. 1) the Maths syllabus is beyond that of an average 7 year-old. Having ...
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Trisha Reloaded: April 2007
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Dedicated to Trisha, as always. Dedicated also to L, my source of inspiration, and the reason why I choose to see the bright side of teaching. Monday, April 30, 2007. National Ed vs Moral Ed. A friend I had dinner with last night asked about the 2 months inactivity in my blog. I don't know how to infuse National Education (NE) in my lessons anymore," I told a friend recently. "I can't explain, with much conviction, many things our leaders are doing. I don't know what to say when students ask me w...It re...
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Trisha Reloaded: February 2007
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Dedicated to Trisha, as always. Dedicated also to L, my source of inspiration, and the reason why I choose to see the bright side of teaching. Saturday, February 24, 2007. At a Chinese New Year gathering yesterday, someone asked me a rather interesting question. So what do you do with students who are stupid? But that means they are stupid! My cousin insisted. What if you have explained things many times and they still don’t get it? Hence they’re stupid, right? Why don’t you just tell them they’re dumb?
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Trisha Reloaded: January 2007
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Dedicated to Trisha, as always. Dedicated also to L, my source of inspiration, and the reason why I choose to see the bright side of teaching. Tuesday, January 09, 2007. I have a love/hate relationship with school. I mean, on 2 Jan, I was ready to slash my wrist at the thought of going back to the grindstone. The break was over, I couldn't imagine facing those students, the endless marking, meetings and those noisy juvenile Sec 1 kids. Posted by trisha @ 5:46 AM. View my complete profile.
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Trisha Reloaded: July 2006
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Dedicated to Trisha, as always. Dedicated also to L, my source of inspiration, and the reason why I choose to see the bright side of teaching. Saturday, July 29, 2006. Of race and your "mother" tongue. For some strange reasons, my comments on Yawning Bread's post. Did not (could not) appear so I'll add my own two-cents to Piper'. S request for clarification on our mother-tongue (MT) policy in Singapore. Here is the unique and, in my opinion, very bizarre situation in Singapore. We are a nation obsessed w...
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Trisha Reloaded: October 2006
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Dedicated to Trisha, as always. Dedicated also to L, my source of inspiration, and the reason why I choose to see the bright side of teaching. Saturday, October 28, 2006. 2 hours that change me. I didn’t know what to expect. It was my first time visiting a one-room HDB flat. I had agreed to help bring a few students to visit a few of these homes that the school had adopted as part of the CIP (Community Involvement Programme). This should be good, I thought. Tonight, as I crawl between my nice clean sheet...