Posts Tagged ‘teaching’
The Creation of the Teacher
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5 Mar 2010It has come to my realisation that being a teacher is a tough job – especially when I’m assigned as the person of contact in which I have to be responsible for the students’ progress. It might all sound very academic, but as I get to know my students one by one, I become quite [...]
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The Party
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5 Dec 2009Christmas is a time to be jolly. It is a time for celebration.
For me, it is a time in which I will be truly tested.
Everyone at work had told me that the day would come for me to…
Arrange the party! Gaaaaaah!
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The Confession of a Teacher
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22 Oct 2009I always get nervous on the first day of teaching a new class.
I don’t always know what I talk about. I just look like I do.
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The Dogs at Work
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6 May 2009Being a female teacher is difficult.
No, no. Let me rephrase that. Being a female teacher is challenging. It is. Especially when you teach adult students in which about 99.99% percent of them are males in their early (and sometimes late) twenties.
Most of the time, the students are surprised to find out that I’m in my [...]
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Part Two: The Micro-teaching
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10 Apr 2009After the interview, I was booked to prepare a thorough but need-not-to-be-too-extensive micro-teaching demo for a class of thirty students, and I had a week to do so. Preliminary, I was given a specified topic as to what I’d be teaching about and mine was about taking orders from guests in a five-star restaurant environment.
Initially, [...]
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Therrysays.com is a personal blog where I share my thoughts, opinions and rants about life in Indonesia and beyond. If this all sounds good to you, enjoy your stay, but if it isn't your cuppa tea, then kindly leave and let me be! Cheers.
- boy: nice article therry..it makes me not wanting to be a teacher..:) [...]
- Finally Woken: Nice post. The students are very lucky having you as their teacher. Not every teacher is as attached [...]
- wien: ther... udalah.. ga usa dipikirin lagi.. let go lah.. :p [...]
- emmy: u deserve to get the place u belong to, the life u dream on, the home u get comfy with. life is too [...]
- k: Hi :) Thanks for reminding me the lovely things about melbourne. I have lived here for 12 years now [...]
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