Changing Lives!!!
Received an SMS about a week ago. It goes “ Hi Mr Chu, I got into NYP Business Enterprise IT…” It was a message that brings me much joy. It is such success of my students that gave me great joy.
I am not interested in receiving gifts, not I interested in getting praises from my bosses, not interested in people telling me “flowery words”, if you know what I meant! My ultimate goal as a teacher is to touch lives and hopefully change lives which thankfully had been happening, if not, then I would consider myself a failure as an educator.
This was the same student who had sms me about her demoralize spirit when she thought that after one and the half year of studying in higher NITEC seems to bear no fruits and leads to nowhere . For those who don’t know what I am saying, let me elaborate a little of the education system in Singapore. When you are in the normal Technical stream in secondary school you can only go to ITE for further study, you will not be eligible for JC or Polys. So after 2 years of studying in ITE, if you do very well, you have a good chances of progressing to Poly if not then you may try to apply for another 2 years of study in Higher NITEC in ITE. You again, need to score a certain points to be considered for Poly and this what happen to this girl She did not do very well in NITEC and I had advice her to go Higher NITEC and then try to do better so that she can have a chance to progress to Poly. But after one and the half year, it seems that her grade may not permit her to apply to Poly and I encourage her to continue and not to give up. Thankfully she had persisted and after her completion, she applied for Poly and she was accepted and that is how I came about in receiving this SMS.
I was so happy for her that I seem to be as joyful as her. This should be what makes a teacher life satisfying and glad that he/she is in the education line. IT IS NOT A CAREER, IT IS LIFE CHANGING OPPORTUNITY!!!
If you had read me tag box, you will also notice that one of the “tagger” wrote this : lobert: ok i will. rememeber u telling me never give up easily. try my best :d
That is why an educator words and action will mould the lives of the students they cam in contact with. I pray that my words and action as an educator will always be a blessing and have a positive impact on all my students.
I am not interested in receiving gifts, not I interested in getting praises from my bosses, not interested in people telling me “flowery words”, if you know what I meant! My ultimate goal as a teacher is to touch lives and hopefully change lives which thankfully had been happening, if not, then I would consider myself a failure as an educator.
This was the same student who had sms me about her demoralize spirit when she thought that after one and the half year of studying in higher NITEC seems to bear no fruits and leads to nowhere . For those who don’t know what I am saying, let me elaborate a little of the education system in Singapore. When you are in the normal Technical stream in secondary school you can only go to ITE for further study, you will not be eligible for JC or Polys. So after 2 years of studying in ITE, if you do very well, you have a good chances of progressing to Poly if not then you may try to apply for another 2 years of study in Higher NITEC in ITE. You again, need to score a certain points to be considered for Poly and this what happen to this girl She did not do very well in NITEC and I had advice her to go Higher NITEC and then try to do better so that she can have a chance to progress to Poly. But after one and the half year, it seems that her grade may not permit her to apply to Poly and I encourage her to continue and not to give up. Thankfully she had persisted and after her completion, she applied for Poly and she was accepted and that is how I came about in receiving this SMS.
I was so happy for her that I seem to be as joyful as her. This should be what makes a teacher life satisfying and glad that he/she is in the education line. IT IS NOT A CAREER, IT IS LIFE CHANGING OPPORTUNITY!!!
If you had read me tag box, you will also notice that one of the “tagger” wrote this : lobert: ok i will. rememeber u telling me never give up easily. try my best :d
That is why an educator words and action will mould the lives of the students they cam in contact with. I pray that my words and action as an educator will always be a blessing and have a positive impact on all my students.
posted by Sebastian Chu at 10:27 AM
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