week 6 2k7
Release of GCE 'O' Level results.....
... stress? a colleague asked me if I was feeling stressed about the impending release of the O level results... actually, I'm not exactly worried about that. Many things happened this week, my sis-in-law getting tuberculosis, me and my daughter failing the x-ray test and the stress from awaiting lab results, the immense sense of relief when it came back clear. With such larger issues at hand, I guess the o level results are not very stressful.
In retrospect, this week has been a relatively good week, aside from the medical issues, life has been as good as it has been for my family, we recently took delivery of one new car and i'm awaiting the arrival of my new subaru next week. Exciting times...
My Sec 5 NA pure geog students did quite well, passing percentage was very high, always thought that it would be bad. Being that I'm only trained to teach lower sec geography and have only 5 years of teaching experience. Although the quality of the passess still leaves much room for improvement, I'm still uncomfortable with having to teach upper sec geography, guess i always will be, many a times I miss teaching English, I really do...but such is life, manpower shortage, departmental needs, school needs... I really understand, doesn't make me feel any better though.
This year's Sec 5 students are a generally weak cohort, I've decided to start the intervention program soon, my strategy last year of drilling on the MCQ has produced the relatively high pass rate, with that, I'll continue this trend, starting after the Lunar New Year Break. so that after June I can focus more on the Paper 2 techniques. Having a smalll Sec 5 group is a bane, 17 students, if 1 doesn't pass, it'll be close to 8% failure...sigh....yet another week....
... stress? a colleague asked me if I was feeling stressed about the impending release of the O level results... actually, I'm not exactly worried about that. Many things happened this week, my sis-in-law getting tuberculosis, me and my daughter failing the x-ray test and the stress from awaiting lab results, the immense sense of relief when it came back clear. With such larger issues at hand, I guess the o level results are not very stressful.
In retrospect, this week has been a relatively good week, aside from the medical issues, life has been as good as it has been for my family, we recently took delivery of one new car and i'm awaiting the arrival of my new subaru next week. Exciting times...
My Sec 5 NA pure geog students did quite well, passing percentage was very high, always thought that it would be bad. Being that I'm only trained to teach lower sec geography and have only 5 years of teaching experience. Although the quality of the passess still leaves much room for improvement, I'm still uncomfortable with having to teach upper sec geography, guess i always will be, many a times I miss teaching English, I really do...but such is life, manpower shortage, departmental needs, school needs... I really understand, doesn't make me feel any better though.
This year's Sec 5 students are a generally weak cohort, I've decided to start the intervention program soon, my strategy last year of drilling on the MCQ has produced the relatively high pass rate, with that, I'll continue this trend, starting after the Lunar New Year Break. so that after June I can focus more on the Paper 2 techniques. Having a smalll Sec 5 group is a bane, 17 students, if 1 doesn't pass, it'll be close to 8% failure...sigh....yet another week....
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