teaching...

haiz...

i m sick again...

stuck in the toilet for so long...

n having cramps now...

not oni that i have a flu and sore throat...

how can everithg go wrong at the same time?...

aniway...

i was rereading abt rebuilding of the death n dragon arc by mel and christy...

n they were talking abt teacher...

n it made mi reflect my teaching mtds... or more like made mi think abt the aims of education...

in my opinion i feel that teaching has a long n short term goal...

short term is easy....

to be able to score well in exam...

n long term to be able to use wadever learnt in future...

i realize that i m more on the long term...

cause i feel that other than the qns...

knowledge is impt so i will link the fact to some facts of life...

how a simple eqn can be useful in life n thgs like that...

n i realize i do it more often now...

mayb inflence frm my einstein's lecturer? haha...

but all this is not useful for the short term goal...

it feels like i m wasting some time with other thgs like sidetracking...

preparing for exams is impt...

for us, 6 yrs to psle, 4 yrs to o-level, 2 yrs to a level...

wout certificate, it is not easy to survive...

but then, wout the long term goal...

edu does not seem to be as impt.....

likewise, wout short term goal...

how do we noe if the student had learnt...

it's difficult to balance them sometime...

to me, i try to balance the 2...

but re the 2 realli in conflict with one another?...

aniway...

the story was discussing abt how a preventer stealth teacher was teaching the student how to open locked doors... yet he neglected the fact that it was too difficult for beginners n to most ppl... juz steal a keycard or shoot the lock to open the door... save time n energy...

yet the students got gd results cause they studied his examples well...

so for short term goal, the teacher had the students graduating well...

but then when the preventers went on a mission...

they did badly... cause they dunno how to change the ideas or rather innovate the ideas or in other wrds apply the examples to other questions...

juz like my physics.. i always did badly at the applications qns... actually it's worse in chem...

i still rmb my nice chem teacher writing that i noe the concept but dunno how to apply them... so he knew i studied but i dunno how to answer qns... one eg is like tehy ask how come this is a covalent bond... n i ans... due to ionic bonds...haha... i m so stupid...

well so if we want students to be able to do qns after they were modified...

we cant juz stick to one example...

so they say practice...

but is practice the ony way?

well... i tink teaching is not easy but i muz say i enjoyed it...

but mayb nxt time i will not take such technical subjects... haha

luckily i m applying to teach chinese in future...

ok... i tink tis is a rather redunant post but juz want to get it out haha :p