The wonderful class of 5 Courage!!!

Then after she helped me took the picture, she asked,"So who want to take photo with me?" then...ya u shd noe what happens la. As usual, the new comer acts as the good-guy while the form teacher becomes, in this case, the "bad woman" lor haha. Then she did something unexpected to sabo me. She asked,"So who want's Mr Ho's signature then?" GG, sure die. Next minute I am being swarmed by kids with papers n pens. Due to chaos and all, I had to make em stop, line up for their break and bring them down 1st. Then I had to sit down outisde the General Office, and sign for them. Lolz like "Qian Ming Hui" sia, also dunnoe why they wan my signature for. But its rather rewarding in a sense to see that in jus the short span of 3 weeks (since I din interact with them much during the 1st week), they would actually feel this way towards me :)

Rest of the day was just packing up, returning stuff, clearing the VP2 room for the next occupaint and then going around the school to say goodbye to all the teachers who have helped me in one way or another.

But before I left, I managed to get an overall assessment of my teaching from my mentor. Overall quite well. Considering the class i had to manage was not very bad, she said that my disciplining of class could be better. But to me, tats very personal opinion one. Different people can accept different levels of noises. What to her is unacceptable to me is still ok, so sometimes I will just let it pass but she will come and quieten down the class for me. But still when the class gets out of hand, I will shout, like really shout. Thats my trump card, sure effective one. Anyway she is the more experienced one, so her advice shouln't be wrong i guess.

She also said I was good at discovering patterns and then presenting it the class to make it easier for the students to understand, so that's a plus. Another thing she commended on was my delivery, aka the way I teach, so ya was rather happy about it considering I am a stage shy person. Its weird how I will be very scared before the lesson, but when it comes time to do it and I say my first sentence, it all jus goes from there. Phew. So I guess teaching's ok for me then :)

So that's how my TAP ended on a high note that day. Rather enriching and enjoyable experience, made me consider more about teaching as a career now.

Moving on, sat went to NTU uni talk with wendy, jiayen, sharon, terence, zhiyong and sushan (in order of arrival haha). Sat thru a few talks, though the main one I was there for was the NIE and MOE talk. I would say the talks wern't exactly what i expected it to be. I was hoping for more info bout the course, what the demands are, curriculum etc, but most of what i got was where it was located on campus, the staff experience n facilities. What I found useful were the undergraduates there whom we can approach to ask questions. The one from NIE whom approached us and we talked to provided alot of information which was really good to consider with. And apparently, NY has been lying to us all these while, and Zhiyong got real happy. It seems that grades to enter NIE weren't as drastic to the points of onli A/Bs onli, so ya it was comforting. After that we went for lunch at kfc, walked around to find that both arcades at suntec n marina square dun hv jubeat T.T. So we settled down at macs at marina square to jus sit down n talk. Then ryan booked out, so we decided to meet the guy whom we can onli meet on weekends at bishan. Naturally, at bishan me n sharon played jubeat. Played a tag battle this time, and sharon thrashed me up down left right, not even bones were left behind sia. She is real pro la, I will have to practice more b4 we play again. But it was nice to be able to play jubeat with someone I know beside, so cool. Proceeded to Wan Chai cafe to eat, ryan arrived and got himself a mac meal where we went up to the balcony area of j8 to eat. Saw NYJC J1s dancing mass dance, so missing the good old days (when was the last time we did mass dance ah?). Talked till j8 closed b4 we all went home.

All the way after the NTU talk, Zhiyong was really happy bout the fact that grades to enter NIE weren't that high at all. And so because of that he got super high, with max confidence in his A-levels. So looking at him ah, I was jus wondering to myself if i had the same level of confidence in my papers than him...defnitely dun hv.

Still, its 2 good days :)