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27 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
To set things in context, Singapore teachers enjoy almost the entire month of December off. It’s christened as protected time. No one is supposed to bother you about work. Yes, I know I’m blessed because my wife is a non-teacher, so I recognise the...
26 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I struggle with many aspects of parenting, but I look forward to teaching my children all that I know and having them surpass me. Some teachers mayn’t want to teach their own children after a long hard day of work, but not me. In fact, this Christm...
25 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I recently went for lunch with a colleague. He mentioned that I am grounded and unusual, both of which I regard as compliments. As someone who have had the privilege to apply literacy supporting strategies with teenagers, here are some lessons I lear...
14 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Jerrick was excited. He was looking forward to showing Mr Heng his comic book. Jujutsu Kaisen was his favourite comic! Mr Heng wanted to revise the decoding of words first. Jerrick followed his example. He wrote the vowels a e i o u on the top left h...
23 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Last Friday, I was fortunate enough to attend a literacy seminar by an eminent professor, Dr Sharon Vaughn. Right off the bat, she distinguished the difference between language and literacy. A student may know how to read a word, but if he doesn’t u...
3 Aug 2024 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
- When students engage in discussions and share their thoughts and ideas with peers, they learn to take turns, listen and negotiate their point of view. They learn to respect, listen to, and understand a diverse range of views, be it to seek truth,...
9 Jul 2024 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
I went for a teaching interview at the Ministry of Education headquarters last Tuesday. I thought I might flunk it because I spoke in a manner too colloquial for my interviewers’ liking. I felt a bit distraught because their comment implied that I mi...
5 Jul 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
When it comes to Singapore, you probably think of us as academically-driven and brilliant in Mathematics. If I’m not mistaken, California uses our Math textbooks for elementary school students. The caveat is that we haven’t produced any Nobel Prize...
4 Jul 2024 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
What’s with the dramatic title? Well, I went for a teaching interview at the Ministry of Education yesterday. On paper, I was a strong candidate. [But it turned out that my less-than-commendable interview performance might actually cause me to flunk...
2 Jun 2024 7 minute read 0 comments evgenima
"Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?" Daily Bible Reading: Sunday, June 2, 2024 Mark 2:23--3:6 (NRSV) Second Sunday after Pentecost 2:23One sabbath he was going through the grainfields; and as they made t...
