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7 Dec 2022 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
My mother-in-law asked if I was worried about my boy’s academic results, to which I responded that 心の強さ (resoluteness of the heart) was more important than results. Now, resoluteness of the heart is an ambiguous phrase as it is so encompassing bu...
5 Dec 2022 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Never give up. So, as you can see, it all begins with your mindset. You have to first master the power of YET and embrace the growth mindset. Believe that you have the ability to learn new things and not feel disappointed when you make mistakes. When...
29 Nov 2022 2 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
Yesterday, I officially became a father of two. This was great timing because in my country, December is the school holidays, also affectionately known as "Protected Time" among teachers because they have the whole month to themselves to rest and rec...
24 Nov 2022 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
We scoff at the idea of work-life harmony, thinking that we are settling for less because work-life balance is an elusive ideal that cannot be attained. But today, I thought I got a taste of what work-life harmony ought to feel like. So, being the ha...
22 Nov 2022 2 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...
15 Nov 2022 3 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...
13 Nov 2022 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
15 minutes into the School-based Dyslexia Remediation (SDR) workshop, I had to confess to the trainers that I didn’t know how to annotate on the Zoom Whiteboard. But it was good that I plucked up the courage to ask them, for I learnt that once the ho...
9 Nov 2022 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
To me, the most interesting thing that arose from the School-based Dyslexia Remediation 2.0 workshop was that students would be guided to do goal setting every week. Even if these low-progress students made incremental progress every week, the instru...
1 Nov 2022 3 minute read 3 comments cryotosensei
I spent the entire afternoon on writing my annual work review. The only thing that kept me going was knowing that I would publish parts of it on Publish0x. Thanks for humouring me and reading how I embellish my "accomplishments". (a)To bring about t...
17 Oct 2022 4 minute read 2 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...
