Haha i was shopping at bugis today with eugene, edwin and zixuan and while having lunch, i saw a few students from Balestier Hill Secondary who still recognised me and said hi...lol =)...and brought me to the realisation tat i haven blogged abt my relief teaching experience thus far altho i said i would some time ago...hahaha...so now here i am doing it...
Ok so the story goes that i got hired by BHSS as a relief teacher from 2nd Jan 2008 (as to the process of getting hired, u can ask me on another occasion...it's quite a long story for me to type it out here hahha)... And i was really happy becos it was the job i wanted to try out (i din wan a 8 to 5 office job where i would be staring at the comp all day long or doing admin work which i know would eventually bore me)...lol and of coz i like the dynamism and interaction with others (students and staff alike) in the school setting...
Yeah so it took a while for me to adjust to being a relief teacher...taking over lessons from other teachers and teaching the students Maths (and sometimes other subjects too), giving them handouts and worksheets to do or juz plain letting them do their own self-study in class...it was a challenge at first with the students having their own different personalities...of coz the good ones were no problem...the bad ones caused quite a lot of mayhem but eventually i learnt how to deal with them as well...in the midst of it, there were times when i felt really bad for not being able to control them but as i come to realise, there's a reason why a discipline master is appointed in school and another reason why i dun tink i'll ever be one...hahaaha...
Maintaining gd relationships with the students and staff was something that i really wanted to do and i tink i achieved that goal...being able to communicate with students and hear their problems, sometimes giving them my (very valuable) advice and helping them along the way was something worth remembering becos i also learnt a lot from them at the same time... at the same time, making frens and acquaintances with various staff members also linger in my memory...how we helped each other to complete tasks, how we went for lunch together etc...haha...
At the end of my tenure, i had already (and quite unexpectedly) done around 5 months of relief teaching (the march and jun hols dun count haha) and it all seemed to pass so fast... when it was time for me to leave, i really felt a sense of belonging to the school...not something tat can be wiped away tat easily...there were bad experiences for me while i was in school but overall, there were more good ones that i cherish until now =)...
I kinda miss relief teaching in BHSS nowadays...haha but it's time for a new experience...tat of university coming up in a week's time...hahaha hopefully it'll be great...=D
