Relief Teaching-Yay or Nay?

Alright, i'm going to blog about my first week in school(though the week not over yet). I will not blog like a typical teenager when they start off their first day in school. Haha. So, this post is dedicated to my fellow readers, be it active or otherwise(hate silent readers, bleh!) even though i dont really see a need to blog about it though i have said so that i will blog about it though. Anyway, here goes. (Get ready to blow!)

In Chronological order.

Counting down....3......2......1.....


24th March 2008:

• Woke up at 6am. Tired, sleepyhead, but still got out of bed. Walked to school, it was so warm in the morning. Reached school, signed in at 7am and waited for the assembly to start.
• Did my lesson plan over the weekend for sec 1 class but not for sec 2 because the SOW is pretty hard to understand(not because i'm stupid, no).
  
• First lesson of the day, is actually not a lesson at all. i have to bring the class down for their health check-up and i thought it was great. BUT surprisingly, the students had a chat with me(suppose to be the other way round right? haha) and should i say, it was a pretty crude form of introduction. They gave me a very 'good impression' of themselves. They call themselves the 2 horny girls. I shall not further elaborate what they said. Probably you can use your own form of imagination BUT please do not tell me about it. I had had enough. After this 2 periods ended, i left them sitting at the atrium, waiting for their next teacher. The feelings that i have, hmmm. What should i say, grotesque or in awe or shock? Well, its none of those. I felt normal. Haha.
• Mr Khairyl, the teacher who will guide me for this week and going to class with me, helped me through the entire sec 1 and 2 classes for the first day. Whew. Which means that the 2nd lesson of the day is actually sec 1 class.
  
• So he basically does most of the teachings BUT dont get bored out yet all you readers, because I still have to make my speech, set ground rules and expectations.

GROUND RULES WHEN YOU ARE IN MY CLASS:

1. Dont talk when i'm talking. If you want to let your voice be heard, raise your hand. Don't be rude.
   
2. Each individual student can only go to the toilet ONCE irregardless of the number of periods for art on that day. So, too bad for the secondary 1 students, they have 4 periods and 3 periods in a row so they better be wise and know when is urgent and when is not. No 2 students are allowed to go to the toilet together.
3. Any form of misconduct be it sleeping in class or other similar form of misbehavior will result in punishments.
4. Failure to hand in homework the first time you will have to write for me, "I will hand in my homework on time" 1000 times. Yes. Its not a typo error. a 1 and 3 zeros. No, you can't type it out. Hand-written. Second time you forget, you will hold a placard saying, "I will hand in my art homework on time" during recess time at the canteen. 3rd time, wow. You are indeed a hard nut to crack. Go straight to the principal, or see Mr Bernard.
   

3 Main Principles that a student would have to follow:

1. Details- homework or classwork must be done in neat handwriting, properly colored, every small little matter matters. Failure to comply will result in consequences that one would regret. (similar to what Mr Leow had done previously....[failure to write name on your work when handed in will result in your work being torn in front of the whole class and not getting any grade until you have submitted another piece with your name on it])
2. Determination- i always believe that for whatever things that you lack in life, you make it up with your determination. Same here. If you dont understand something or still dont know a specific technique taught in class, be determine to come and look for me and get me to teach you until you know it.
3. Diligence- being talented but not hardworking wont get you anywhere, rather, the lack of diligence will get you ugly things in life.

Therefore, i came up with the equation:

DETAILS + DETERMINATION + DILIGENCE = DESTINY

(pastor kong said that details determine your destiny, i have changed it to this)

Anyway, this equation in the work of a school system is simple. If you fail to provide all three to form destiny, you will only result in getting poor grades, detention (wow, another D) and disappointments.

It seems like im making things difficult for them, BUT i reward students. (follow through to 26 March 2008)

• So, all in all, day 1 just went on smoothly with my last lesson with Mr Faizal who helped me through with it too.
• In conclusion, i did not suffer any sort of fish out of water scenario, as i really hate to become a fish when God has made me in His image. (God is so great,i prayed while walking to school and everything that i prayed for come to pass).
• Before i move on to the next day, while in the staff room, the form teacher of 2E actually came up to me and emphasize to me the importance of being patient with her class and how notorious they can get. Oh wow. 2E class is on wednesday. Will they kill me, or otherwise?

25th March 2008:

• Didnt go to school. No lesson, and Mr Kairyl said i dont have to go for reflection time. Yeah, praise the Lord, i get to wake up late.

26th March 2008:

• Got the greatest scare of the day. Mr Kairyl messaged me before assembly that since the day before he had taken 2 days MC. Oh no, so i'm sorta worried before assembly even started and when Mr Faizal came, i thought he will be with me today, but apparently, he has to prepare for his class as his lecturer from NIE is going to come and grade him. Haiz.
• When to class 2E. Heart is in my mouth BUT thank God i prayed. He is there with me and i dont even feel nervous at all.
  
• Went into the class, state my ground rules and when it comes to the one on homework, wow. You should have seen the look on their face. I didn't smile, they know that i'm serious. So they quieten down.
• Went ahead with my lesson. I told them that if i dont catch anyone sleeping, all will get chocolates next week. And so they are getting it.
• No chaos till now, everything is fine. Then came the foreign exchange students. 5 of them. They are pretty quiet, but because of their arrival, the class started talking. I asked them to keep quiet 3 times, and the 4th time, i said that its the last warning and they suddenly just shut up. Wow.
  
• Gave homework, get complains as usual, BUT everything is great.
  
• I walk out of the class feeling victorious. That is the victory that i gain when i have God with me.
• Went to the staff room and watched I SHOT ANDY WARHOL. Oh my. Its a show about the woman who shot Andy Warhol. In case you dont know who Andy Warhol is, he is the one who drew campbell soup design, marilyn monroe famous art piece etc. Some big shot in the design industry, but he died. Duh. He's being shot. BUT my point in mentioning this movie is that it is one rated RA. They showed the part of printmaking done by Andy Warhol to the students, excluding all the other parts. So, curious as i am as to why the kids gets so excited when Mr Faizal mentioned Andy Warhol, i went to watch the movie using the laptop. Didnt read the review before i watch the movie, its rated RA. There's a part whereby they displayed sexual disorientated people making love and apparently, i wanted to skip that part but it just go crazy at that part, it can't be skip, stopped at that scene, the cd won't come out, and the worst thing, a teacher walked past and has in shock. Oh no. Haha. I told Mr Khairyl, and he said that i should have said, "its an artistic film". Haha. it really was. Anyway, one part that really make me think much is the manifesto of the woman who killed andy warhol. I went online and searched for it, and if you are a guy, better not read it man, its really feminist and still has been.

Argh. Too tired typing all these now. Yawns. Am working now, sorta last day at work here. Will update soon, if i ever want to talk about school if its becoming too normal.


Oh no. I just blogged like a teenager would about his/her first day at school. Shucks.