MOE Induction 2007
The world is really small. Just on Thursday when I attended the induction program, I made new friends, some of whom saw me before during my army days. I told them I have never seen them before while they told me they have seen me lots of time in the camp, especially in the vehicle shed maintaining my M113....
The Induction program was quite boring, and I tried to sleep through the event with my eyes wide open..the event started with a dreaded ice breaker where we have to dress up a person using magazines and newspapers. My group was extremely quiet to begin with but lots of crazy ideas came in. We made paper hats, folded hearts, 'decorated' the person with newspaper, who in the end looked like a chef as we also made a club with the words 'On government service' which was actually printed on the envelopes provided.
After the breaker, we were briefed about the education system and the latest development in the educational scene followed by a tea break then another talked by the associate dean of NIE on the course overview which we will spend one year there. She talked about people breaking bond, leaving the service etc...it was quite disheartening to hear that...
Following that was a sharing session by the principal of Northlight School. Her talk was very interesting and I was so tempted to join the school as a teacher if not for my lack of experience. She also shared about how she came to become the head of the school, the ways students are taught there, the life there etc. Every student was given a card and when the teacher notices a positive behaviour, he/she will award one chop to the student. Every four chops will entitle the student to exchange for a token to play pool in the recreation room and every eight chops can be exchanged for 3 tokens. That's why the students rush to school every morning before the assembly starts at 8am...Students live as far as Bukit Panjang where they have to take a bus to the LRT, then LRT to CCK MRT, CCK MRT to Paya Lebar MRT, then finally a bus to the school in Dunman. The Principal also played the school song which was in fact the best one which I had ever heard before. I was so mesmerized by the lyrics and the accompany music..
Right after lunch we broke up to our respective teaching groups namely science, maths, english, literature and so on. Another boring session about the science curriculum in Singapore ie. H1, H2 H3 subjects offered at JC. What's the point of telling us all this when the policy will change in time to come?
I want to teach in Northlight!!!
The Induction program was quite boring, and I tried to sleep through the event with my eyes wide open..the event started with a dreaded ice breaker where we have to dress up a person using magazines and newspapers. My group was extremely quiet to begin with but lots of crazy ideas came in. We made paper hats, folded hearts, 'decorated' the person with newspaper, who in the end looked like a chef as we also made a club with the words 'On government service' which was actually printed on the envelopes provided.
After the breaker, we were briefed about the education system and the latest development in the educational scene followed by a tea break then another talked by the associate dean of NIE on the course overview which we will spend one year there. She talked about people breaking bond, leaving the service etc...it was quite disheartening to hear that...
Following that was a sharing session by the principal of Northlight School. Her talk was very interesting and I was so tempted to join the school as a teacher if not for my lack of experience. She also shared about how she came to become the head of the school, the ways students are taught there, the life there etc. Every student was given a card and when the teacher notices a positive behaviour, he/she will award one chop to the student. Every four chops will entitle the student to exchange for a token to play pool in the recreation room and every eight chops can be exchanged for 3 tokens. That's why the students rush to school every morning before the assembly starts at 8am...Students live as far as Bukit Panjang where they have to take a bus to the LRT, then LRT to CCK MRT, CCK MRT to Paya Lebar MRT, then finally a bus to the school in Dunman. The Principal also played the school song which was in fact the best one which I had ever heard before. I was so mesmerized by the lyrics and the accompany music..
Right after lunch we broke up to our respective teaching groups namely science, maths, english, literature and so on. Another boring session about the science curriculum in Singapore ie. H1, H2 H3 subjects offered at JC. What's the point of telling us all this when the policy will change in time to come?
I want to teach in Northlight!!!
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