August 4, 2010

People differ!

After one and a half months teaching in a kindie, I found that some children are so easy to teach. Teaching them is like a breeze and it's every teacher's dream to be able to pass your knowledge to your children easily. However, some children are a headache to teach! Like seriously, they are slow, get distracted so easily and just cannot be taught using the 'nice' way.



Some children are naturally clever, I must say. You teach them anything they will follow. They are like sponges and they pick up very fast. These children are easy and you do not have to pay very much attention to them. Although sometimes, they do get jealous when they see the teacher teaching other children attentively. But give them compliments like 'Clever Girl!' and they will be happy =D

On the other hand, the poor students who cannot keep up with their friends are left out and are behind syllabus. Their friends could count all the way to 20 and backwards but they are still stucked with numbers below 10. Maths, is the subject that has many children grumbling. These children are not stupid but just a bit slow. Give them English, Chinese, Bahasa, Science or colouring any time and they will finish up fast and correctly! 



Oh, this reminds me of how slow I was in Maths during school haha...Bless my teacher and my father for having the patience to teach me LOL Even I'm losing my patience with these kids who just cannot get it and sometimes I'll just do the math for them and ask them to go home and practice haha

Reading, too is a hassle. Some children are pretty good with words. Some still cannot pronounce what 'T-H-E' is! Even 6-year-olds...There's this one child who is still stucked with book 4 when her friends are already reading book 22. I'm not kidding and she's going to primary school next year! How to keep up?

One more thing, parents should not leave all the teachings to the teachers. They should guide their child at home and do their homeworks with them! Not leave them in the doom because kids cannot do it all by themselves. Don't expect them to recognise words magically, right? Someone has to teach them! Teahers can only do so much.

As the title per se, people do differ whether in personality, mind development wise, characterictics and so on. Not everyone is the same. So, some may need more attention than the other and some may gather more attention than others due to their personalities or nature.

Well, God made us this way and this is how we are supposed to live. Thus, we have to live life at its best taking what's given to us.

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