Occupations and Ambitions (:

After nine long months I realized that I am not here to be loved or to be just a friend. I am here to be a teacher, who leads and inspires and disciplines.

And authority in the classroom being firmly hold in the teacher's hands, is actually something students would appreciate (:

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Today, I had a great time in 1 USM. We are still discussing about occupations and ambitions and still very much stuck in Band 3. However, today I get to share with my students a little bit about my passion and my past failures before finally achieving my dream to become a teacher. 

My students were really quiet (hopefully they are listening instead of dozing off) and sat up staright throughout my sharing which took approximately 3 minutes illustrating how many times my application to become a teacher was rejected.

After that, I put Sarah's multi-sensory approach into good use. We started off with listening and reading and visuals. I had manila cards with occupations in large print pasted on the board, and my nice occupation chart with the visuals on the side. And then after reading and reciting together, we had handwriting practice followed by a word search and then the fly-swatter game.

By the end of the lesson, 3 of my students scored 14/14 in the assessment! Only 3 students scored below 7/14. 

Little successes like these do keep you on your track, and keep you feeling hopeful (: 

What a wonderful Tuesday!