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Organising a Spelling Bee

29 Jul 2022 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

It’s Thursday and normally, I should be dog-tired because it’s near the end of yet another exhausting work week. But surprisingly, I feel quite alert, alert enough to start tying this past 10.35pm anyway. My atypically energetic being has to be attri...

Teaching Students How To Spell

26 Jul 2022 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei

My school sponsored me to undergo the Orton Gillingham course early this year. This term, I am given 4 students and tasked to engage in literacy coaching with them. Anyway, it was during one such lesson that I discovered that -tion and -sion are both...

Script for Formative Assessment presentation

24 Jul 2022 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Kai Le. Just to give you a little background about myself - I was attached to Naval Base Primary School from 2019 to 2021. So, the one thing I really learnt in my three years there is Formative Assessment. Primary...

“Co-Teaching” with a student on the autistic spectrum

22 Jul 2022 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

I think maybe it is a sweeping generalisation to say that all people on the autism spectrum can draw, but one autistic kid in my class surely reinforces the stereotype that autistic people are artistic people. It all started when I barred the student...

Masters of Teaching #33: A new trimester!

15 Jul 2022 3 minute read 3 comments bengy

    Unsplash   You can find previous Brain Dumps here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21. Part 22, P...

Jesus says one thing, we do the other

5 Jul 2022 1 minute read 1 comment Lawa

Showing the lilies in the field waving with the momentum of air, Jesus says," Look to those lilies, they never wonder about the future nor ponder about the past, they live in the present. They too more put effort against the air, they move with them"...

My PechaKucha Presentation on Quizlet

4 Jul 2022 4 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

Have you heard of PechaKucha before? It's an intriguing format that necessitates a presenter to speak for 20 seconds each for his or her deck of 20 slides. It's nerve-wracking as you are conscious of this race against time while forcing your mind to...

Time for them to Fly Away...

26 Jun 2022 4 minute read 3 comments bengy

Unsplash     Unsplash   This time of the year has always been a bit of a bittersweet one... the end of a Northern hemisphere academic year means that I have students that are finishing up with their final exams of secondary school and are emb...

Masters of Teaching Mind Dump 32: Slogging slogging slogging

19 May 2022 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

    Unsplash   You can find previous Brain Dumps here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21. Part 22, P...

Oral Presentation with a Student

6 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei

“What’s one thing you can improve on?” I asked.“Eye contact,” he immediately said.15 is an awkward age, in which self-centred and self-conscious teenagers like him blatantly refuse to present in front of the class, even if it’s for a graded assessm...