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3 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
So what was it like working at NorthLight, I hear you ask. You know the cardinal rule of teaching: never initiate a power struggle with students. No one wins. I found myself flouting this golden rule then. Specifically, I had shouting matches with a...
30 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
A few people who have observed my lesson comment that I tend to overuse "okay" while I teach. "Your students may be secretly counting the number of times you utter the word 'okay', " my mentor Mrs Emily Teo once cautioned. But in all honesty, I have...
24 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
1. Lesson preparation is killing me. Gone are the days when I can swagger into a classroom with a comprehension passage. But it's nice to be able to show videos and organise mini debates in class. I'm quite impressed with the way today's teens are ju...
21 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I have come to a stage in life where I think blogging is self-indulgent and lack the motivation to blog because nothing exciting enough happens anyway but I was looking at an ex-student's reflection for 2009 and his conviction behind his smooth-flowi...
20 Nov 2025 3 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I never had the appetite for business.To be honest, I don't think male teachers get a lot of respect in Singapore, if I can generalise what my student once uttered to be a sentiment held commonly: "Like you meh. Still teach in YJC". I never did let h...
19 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Yet another distinctive day! The girl whom I had trouble collecting homework from wrote me a book. Okay, strictly speaking, she ran out of steam by the fourth page, but Sensei won’t begrudge her efforts, considering her lackluster attitude towards ho...
17 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Teaching is a calling, or so they say. I’m not so sure if I regard my profession as a vocation. After all, there is more to life than my job, even if it involves something as groundbreaking and earth-shaking as impacting lives. But one thing’s for su...
14 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I took Urgent Private Affairs leave yesterday to attend my son’s orientation, which meant that I had to forgo the Year 4s’ graduation today. Amidst this group of students whom I went toe to toe with was a young man who recently came back to school af...
6 Nov 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Pre-Exam Predicting Possible Questions Use a Clear Brainstorming Structure Think of the topic encompassed by both the reading passage & the picture & scrutinise the picture. Think of an onion & generate possible questions based on its different la...
5 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Teaching Happiness Journal 27/10/25 Was sharing with a parent’s group various mnemonics that I use to teach Science, including my painstakingly curated creation McDonald’s Really Shiok (Muscular Circulatory Digestive Respiratory Skeletal). Dire...
