finally got my salary today. I suppose to receive it two weeks ago but I did not manage to open an ATM account earlier where our money is being deposited by the school because of my busy sked coaching my students for the regional academic contest.
Alas! all the LCD projectors, microphones, computers and internet connection in the classroom are working now. Oh I could tell.
how indispensable these stuffs are in our teaching—we could save much time, energy and they help a lot for the students to facilitate learning and sustain their interest easily. We got a demonstration on how to use them. How lucky are they (students) for having this kind of state of the art facilities but it turned to be that they won’t see the importance of it. Students usually break all these things (like the last set), thus the office implemented a new policy for the students not to be on the wooden flat form unless their teacher told them to do so That means that they can’t touch any of those teachers’ stuff. And besides they have their own computer inside the classroom and they don’t need to use the LCD projector and microphones for their videoke, hehehe sounds silly but students here really doing that during their free time. They have 5 units computer with internet connection that supposed to be used for their research with
respect to their studies, but classroom turns to an internet café during their free time. Games here, chat there, and play “nonsense” stuff everywhere. oh, if I were the director, I better remove those computers, coz it eaten up the time of the students that presume to be intended for their study...unfortunately I am just an ordinary foreign teacher here..huhuhu. Two hundred thousand baht is a big money just to procure such equipment for one classroom only. How I wish that history will not repeat itself and the equipment will last a little longer than before. And the admin will become serious of the punishment to those who violate the policy and stop spoiling the students. Hmmp it’s their money anyway…hehehee (bad cheetah...)
I ate dinner in a French restaurant with my coteachers. We have a nice time eating French food.Hmmm…concerning the “teaching thing", well, I felt reasonably dissatisfied on my Mattayum 4 class today. I taught them about mitosis and meiosis but it seemed that half of the class just heard it and good enough that the rest listened. Teaching Thai students is pretty much harder than teaching Filipino students in view of the fact that their comprehension of English language as medium of instruction is far a long way of that students in the Philippines. And one thing more, in the Phil. you can easily translate difficult terms into a local dialect if you want it to understand by your students. Here, I can’t speak Thai; I should have to deliver my lesson in pure English. I need to speak slowly, clearly and as much as possible unlock all the words that seem Greek to them and some are only simple words but it appears that they have no prior knowledge of what those word mean. The pacing of the lesson is so slow and it requires loads of motivations in order to hold their interest. Nevertheless, I made it to explain the lesson as simple as I could without affecting the quantity and the quality of it (‘hope so). Wooooh another day is gone and tomorrow is a rest day, a time to contemplate and introspect on how to improve my teaching for the day ahead. Without doubt, prayers are of great help. Let’s call it a night!
