Be An Impact To Others!!!

Seem to be at lost on what to write. Time passes by without you knowing. It is coming to 2 years since I started this blog. Although most of the time, it was me blogging, but still the few comments that came in was enough to brighten my life. Hopefully this blog will continue to be a blessing to all who reads.

It was so touching when I read the article of a teacher who taught all the way to just a month before she passed away. She was down with cancer but she continues to teach even though she was in great pain. To such a teacher, I salute them with all my hearts. It is soooooooooooooo difficult to find such teacher nowadays.

Was just chatting with one of me ex-colleague and the many issues that he mentioned and shared with me, only goes to show that something is so wrong with many of the new teachers employed. No, I am not condemning all the new teachers, but unfortunately, many of the new teachers are like that. Teaching becomes more of an income that rather an impact that they can make.

Probably, it may not be the teachers’ fault. It is with the system that seeks what they called, “key indicators”. This is something that I had never believed that an educational system should implement. If the system seeks to have teachers making sure that they have a fantastic success rate, what else do you expect from the teacher? They are forced to pass as many as they can, even though some may not deserve to pass. Too often, teachers’ hands are tied. But to be fair to the system, sadly to says, I could see very few teachers that have a passion for teaching. They seem not to have a genuine care and concern for their students, they do not take their teaching as a moulding of the future generation.. Teaching seems to be more of getting results, such as how many As my student achieved, making sure that none of them fail their exam, if not the teachers will have to answer for it. WHAT??? You mean ITE is a miracle making place? The teachers at ITE are all miracle maker, such that whoever comes in, will suddenly become so smart that they will all succeed and passed in their exam? NO, I don’t mean to say that ITE is the end, but surely to a reasonable person, they know that there are no such things as a 100% success rate!

I do hope that if ever any of my students becomes teachers in ITE, they will learn to true to themselves and be able to make an impact on these students’ lives. I was just counseling a student who is a single mother, trying to help her see that she must try to do well in her studies so that she can break out of the poverty circle that she is in. Hopefully she can do it for her sake and her children sake. No, I am not boasting, but this is what we as teacher should be doing, trying to help our students as much as we can.

With this I will end my blogging

What A Teacher!!!

It never fails to surprise me whenever I read articles of teachers caught in some unhealthy acts. Did you read last Sunday Newpaper? The headline screams something like this. “Teacher made me pregnant and makes me go for abortion…”

It seems that nowadays teachers are employed based on their qualification with no measure of their characters or moral values. I know, it is difficult to gauge a person from the interview, but I believe that MOE should stress across very clearly to any prospective teacher the consequences of any immoral acts.

To me this teacher had fallen badly, so badly that if I am in MOE shoe, I will give an immediate termination, no investigation needed.

First, here was a teacher, 27 years old having an affair with a 16 years old girl from his school. As teacher, it is very easy to influence a student from the same school. Whether he is teaching that class or not, as long as you have certain contact with the class, then your influence is strongly felt by the students. So it is no excuse to say that since I am not teaching the class, then it is OK. Sorry, it is not OK!!!

Secondly, how can you be having sex with a girl of such age? You are telling the world that is it Ok to have pre marital sex. How powerful can this message be, especially if it comes from the mouth and the action if such a teacher? Hello, I am not asking you to be an angel? But how can you do it with your student? Such student are so easily impressionable and by doing so, you are telling the whole school, that it is OK to sleep around, there is nothing wrong with it. What sort of values are you imparting?

Thirdly, by asking the girl to go for abortion, you are inculcating a very wrong moral values. You are not teaching our youngster the value and the preciousness of a life. You are telling them that it is not wrong to take away a life, as long as it does not hinder your life. My goodness, don’t you know that life is precious? As a Chinese saying that I heard very often from my parent, “We as living things, ought to preserve our lives and not to seek to destroy oneself” We as teachers ought to teach our students to learn to treasure life and not to kill life through such means.

Lastly, we must learn to take responsibilities of our actions and should never equate it with what others did. It was in the report that he says, I too see other teacher smoking and go clubbing…, so what is wrong with what I did? No I am not condoning such acts, but what other had been doing does not mean that the wrong he does is OK. It does not mean that since other rob, so it is OK for me to steal!!!

I can go on and on, on what he did is immoral, but I will stop here and allows my students to ponder over what I wrote and hopefully, they will learn from this incident and grow to be a better person.