Monthly review 1: January 2009

Time flies, it's June now!!!! Quite a lot of things happened in the past 5 months, so i have decided to have a slot known as monthly review. In my monthly review, i will try to sum up all the important happenings in tht particular month. So, let's start with the month of January 2009!!

January: school reopens!!! I was so reluctant to go back schl after 6 weeks of holidays. However, i cant deny tht sometimes (only sometimes) i will miss my students, haha (sounds so hypocrite but it's true!!!) Actually before schl reopens, we already had a few teachers' meeting. I know tht i will have more workloads this yr. However, i thought i can handle the workload better this yr coz i already got 1 year experience. BUT it's juz my 一厢情愿。As what i expected earlier, i will continue to become a form teacher in one of the form 5 class and i will be teaching mathematics too. These are all the things i expected, so nothing special and everything seems all right.

Who knows, life is unpredictable!!! one of the experienced teacher in my school tendered his resignation. It's all out of sudden!! He is a very capable and experienced teacher so we all felt tht it's a big loss to our schl. He is teaching maths and add maths in the schl, since he have decided to resign so someone must be there to take over his classes. Consequently, i was assigned to take over one of his add maths class and also one of his modern maths class. (A secret to be shared here: actually i volunteered myself to take over his modern maths class coz i prefer to teach SPM maths rather than PMR maths), so 5SC1 students pls dont hate me and also dont blame me for volunteering myself even though u dont like me, haha!!!Bored? Be patient, 好戏在后头！！！

I dont mind to take over all the maths and add maths classes coz this is our core business, but apart frm tht there is a mission impossible for me!! I was assigned to become the discipline teacher in my schl, so shocked!!! I know i am a person with high self-discipline (厚脸皮！！）but i dont think i can discipline my students. So, it's a mission impossible to me. However, this is an ORDER so i cant tolak!!! I can still remember tht when my schl principal announced in the assembly tht i am the new discipline teacher, all the students clapped loudly!!! The principal interpreted tht this meant tht the students are willing to co-operate with me but i interpreted it in another way: i think the students felt tht it's so funny to put a young and new teacher like me to become their discipline teacher!!!

一波未平，一波又起. After the male teacher resigned, another female teacher in my schl was transferred to a new schl. She was the head teacher of KRS so someone need to take over her duty, guess who? Again, it's me!!!It's not easy to become ketua KRS coz this is an UPS which most of the members are passive students, they dont really like to attend koko activities. in addition, actually i was a passive student during my schl times and i dont like to attend koko activities too. So, it's a big challenge for me to encourage students to join koko activities while i myself dont like it!!!

So far, i think these are the 2 major incidents tht happened in my schl which affected my schl life directly. Anyway, for ur information teachers are busy especially the first few months. This is becoz besides the admin work we need to busy with sports activities / sports day preparation in the first few months. However, i will leave the cerita abt schl sports day in my february monthly review...

To be continued...