My journey

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

wonderful weekend

Had a good rest during the past weekend. Cell group is getting exciting. People are actually responding to God. I actually discovered a few important things like:
Relationships are extremely important.

My prayer for Jinwan is that she is able to come to cell. I hope she'll love God more each day. And through the loving she'll commit more.Thank God for Jinwan.

Things to do this holiday:
Read more
Listen to more sermons
Pray more
Meet up with all my dear cell members - sophia, sharity, jac, juliana, michelle, evelyn, olivia, victoria, jinwan.
1) Sophia is having problems with mum and I feel helpless sometimes. I teared when I prayed for her 2 days ago. I hope she will reconcile.
2) I hope evelyn n victoria can commit to God more.

Sleep early (no later than 2 am) - is it possible?
exercise twice a week
iron all my clothes - they r in a mess!
clean my room
pay Pastor Dennis a visit - when he's sad i feel sad too. He's a spiritual father to me.
meet up Vicky and Jasper - they r together!
Invite people to church
learn to work without recognition and being noticed

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Teaching

The past weeks have been fantastic. Or shd I say different? Just a very different kind of life i must say. It has been busy but it was a kind of busyness that I like and detest at the same time. I think I've found what I enjoy doing. Teaching. But I think I have to really work hard at my pedagogical skills. I need to constantly improve my teaching methods and classroom management style.

Here's just a list of things I need to reflect upon, that is long overdue:
  1. stating objectives, preparing the learning environment
  2. lesson closure
  3. building rapport, management of group/individual behaviour (is there a system in place?)
  4. evaluation skills (doing it on visualiser or whiteboard)
  5. self-reflective, thinking on my feet

There is a teacher in school. Mrs Raja. I am really touched and impressed by her desire to help us trainee teachers improve in our teaching of the lower primary pupils. She goes the extra mile to help us prepare the workshops, lesson plans and dishes out advices to help us in our career. She really cheered me up today when I thought I did real badly for my SCM lesson observation today. 2 teach is 2 touch lives. simple words yet so powerful. It challenges me to think about my life, my way of delievering my lesson. Have I touched a life everyday?

It's been long since i last shopped or soak myself in the sea breeze myself at the beach with Dear.