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TEACHING HAS ITS REWARDS

SUNDAY, APRIL 3,

APRIL 3, 1994

A CAREER IN TEACHING CAN AT TIMES BE DULL MANY LIKE PREVOCATIONAL TEACHER CHU MAN-YEE, "REWARDS" FOR HER TO DEVOTE HER TIME AND EFFORT.

то

BUT

SUFFICIENT

AND FRUSTRATING, IT OFFERS

A FORMER PERSONAL SECRETARY, MS CHỦ HAS NOW SPENT SEVEN TEACHING IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF SCHOOLS.

YEARS

"TEACHING IN AN ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE IS LITERALLY RELAXING.

"THE

STUDENTS ARE GROWN-UPS AND YOU GET ALONG WITH

THEM LIKE

FRIENDS.

SECONDARY

HAVE

YOU HOWEVER,

ΤΟ "FOR

OR PRIVATE SCHOOL, A

ACCEPTANCE FROM PERFORM AS A TEACHER. YOU NEED TO EARN RESPECT AND YOUR STUDENTS SO THEY WILL LEARN WHAT YOU TEACH," SHE SAID.

"IN ANY CASE, YOU NEED TO ADAPT TO THE TEACHING ENVIRONMENT AND THIS REQUIRES TO YOUR NEW STUDENTS AT THE START OF EVERY SCHOOL YEAR.

SCHOOL YEAR SOME EFFORT AND IT IS NOT UNTIL THE THIRD MONTH OF THE THAT YOU CAN HAVE GREATER CONFIDENCE WALKING INTO THE CLASSROOM.'

MS CHU ADMITTED THAT THERE WERE MANY THINGS IN CAREER THAT SHE DID NOT LIKE.

...

HER TEACHING

"AS A TEACHER, YOU HAVE TO COPE WITH PRESSURE FROM STUDENTS AND FROM YOURSELF, SHE SAID.

"AS A NEW TEACHER, YOU MUST SPEND PLENTY OF TIME PREPARING LECTURES. YOU MAY ALSO NEED TO TACKLE WORRJES OVER HOW YOU WILL

NAUGHTY STUDENTS ACROSS IN

WHETHER OR NOT YOU CAN TAME CLASS, WHETHER THE CLASS CAN LEARN AS QUICKLY AS YOU WISH THEM TO."

THE

COME

OR

THERE IS ALSO PRESSURE FROM STUDENTS.

VERY ENCOUNTER

"SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, AT 11 TO 16 YEARS OF AGE, ARE YOUNG AND CAN GET QUITE EMOTIONAL FROM LINHAPPY THINGS THEY OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM.

OR THE "SOMETIMES THEY MESSED THINGS UP IN FRONT OF A TEACHER

ARE DOING. A TEACHER HAS то WHOLE CLASS WITHOUT REALISING WHAT THEY ACCEPT HER STUDENTS AND HANDLE THE SITUATION AS SUCH.

TWO YEARS AFTER SHE ENGAGED AS A TEACHER, MS CHU WHETHER SHE WANTED TO CONTINUE TEACHING.

ASK HERSELF

"I FOUND THAT I LIKE TEACHING. EVERY MORNING, 1 PULLED MYSELF OUT OF BED AND HURRIED TO SCHOOL ON CHOWDED BUSKS.

"BUT

LIKE ONCE

IN SCHOOL, 1 ARRIVED

I HEARD GREETINGS

YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE MORNING, MADAM' OR HOW ARE YOU, MISS CHUGA THESE GREETINGS AND SMILES DID TO BRIGHTEN UP THE DAY.

*GOOD

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