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24 Jun 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
You have created the content but need to complement it with PPT slides. You are feeling exhausted, and spending hours on generating PPT slides is the least thing you want to do. Fret not! In this age of Gen AI, there is an app for every purpose. Gamm...
2 Aug 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
As part of the semestral assessments, I had to conduct a speaking assessment for my students. To my horror, I realised that many of them lacked the basic vocabulary to give a decent answer. There were also the better students who resorted to stock ph...
14 May 2023 5 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
In Singapore, we have an online learning management system called the Student Learning Space (SLS). Due to our emphasis on education, the kind developers have even conceptualized gamification templates so that teachers like me can enthuse our student...
11 May 2023 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
one of the many invisible tasks teachers have to do is to vet the semestral remarks of students that belong to their colleagues from other departments. for better or for worse, because we teach english, we are seen to be the custodians of the english...
26 Apr 2023 3 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
In a freaking good mood today.Enjoyed myself thoroughly at work today. Woah. Have I gone bonkers? Isn’t work the malaise of modern life? How can work be enjoyable? It all goes back to last Tuesday, when my Head of Development got us English teachers...
18 Apr 2023 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Another 3 ways English teachers can use ChatGPT efficiently To give me a direction when I had to craft teaching notes for the Unit workbooks My prompt: I am a junior high school teacher preparing my students for the Workplace Literacy test run by t...
11 Apr 2023 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
When you do good things, you carve a name for yourself. So my colleague who is into making videos for the whole school approached me to ask if I would be interested to appear on the school's TikTok channel. After thinking about it for a bit, I though...
10 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Spent the entire workday churning out the following notes for my students so that they understand the concept of distinguishing facts from opinions. Thank you for reading. :) All images found here are my own work. :) Let’s Learn: How to give an opini...
10 Feb 2023 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Anxiety is a major ailment that befalls many people today. If not arrested early, a person suffering from anxiety may succumb to depression. It was with this context in mind that my school invited EYEYAH! to hold an anxiety workshop at our in-house l...
7 Feb 2023 2 minute read 5 comments cryotosensei
Examination vetting has a way of revealing your assumptions. So, I was in charge of setting the listening comprehension texts for this year's Milestone Assessment. During the vetting session, my colleagues told me that my sentences were too difficult...
