- (Il)literacy | Harvard Graduate School of Education
“[A] mother’s literacy skills, even at a basic level, translate into healthier kids” because “a couple of years in the classroom as young girls ma[kes] a difference in what [is] used later, as mothers, to make informed health choices for their children”.
- Last Words of the Tiger of Malaya, General Yamashita Tomoyuki | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
It would’ve been interesting to have learnt this in secondary school, from a critical-thinking perspective.
- 25 Things Successful Teachers Do Differently | TeachThought
Every single tip is true.
- The Writing Revolution | The Atlantic
“‘The thing is, kids need a formula, at least at first, because what we are asking them to do is very difficult. So God, let’s stop acting like they should just know how to do it. Give them a formula! Later, when they understand the rules of good writing, they can figure out how to break them.'”
- Kurt Vonnegut’s 1967 Advice to a New Teacher at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop | Slate
And finally, it always helps to have advice based on empirical research.
Tag - education
In a strange twist of fate, my teaching career has come full circle and I’ll be relief teaching at St Gabriel’s Secondary School from today till the end of Term 4.
Pretty excited because I’ll be teaching The Chrysalids by John Wyndham and Boom by Jean Tay.
I’ll also have to teach some English language classes, but thankfully it’s the old syllabus (I heard the new one is… complex).
In somewhat-related news, I’m trying to find a high-resolution version of the school badge you see above (the original and the one I used to wear).
The original motto was “Virtue and Truth” (or “Virtus et Veritas” in Latin, though it was never used as such); the present motto is “Labore Omnia Vincit” (or “Hard Work Conquers All”).
I still prefer the old motto and badge.
Previously, on The Life and Chronicles of Laremy Lee…
I’ve been pretty busy the last fortnight with various deadlines and the like.
It’s a happy problem; work means income, though that doesn’t usually arrive until much later.
But my schedule this week’s a bit clearer, arranged on purpose because I’ve returned to SAJC this week to relief teach for another three weeks. I started on the Monday that just passed (22 Jul) and I’ll be here until Mon, 12 Aug.
Concurrently, I’ve been running a poetry workshop for some students in the Victoria Junior College Integrated Programme.
It’s been pretty cool to be back at my alma mater, meeting old faces and reliving the days of my youth.
It also makes me remember how, when was I was younger, I always wanted to be older. Now that I’m older, I miss being young.
I guess the grass is always greener on the other side.
