First Day of School 2rd Jan - New Beginnings...

New Beginnings....

A new school term has started. new challenges ahead...new form class, CCA, pupils and textbooks... In summary, I am bracing myself for the upcoming changes and looking forward to a new year with renewed passion to embrace change and to inspire pupils to be enthusiastic about Physics and becoming a holistic person.

New Year Resolutions...

Reflective Practitioner..
Being a reflective teacher-practitioner and able to share insights on various aspects of teaching to colleagues. To be able to build on strengths and to work on areas for improvement. As iron sharpens iron, we need to work along side fellow colleagues so that we can grow professionally and collectively.

Teacher Researcher..
Pursuing a Masters Degree in Education provide me with opportunities to read up on educational research articles and journals and tried-and-tested pedogogies and different aspects of child psychology development and updates in learning environments. Understanding and applying what I have learned is an excellent way of using the knowledge learned and sharing it with others.

Leader of the classroom...within and outside...
As teachers, we need to walk our talk and be role models for our pupils. Pupils come to us in all shapes and sizes. The question is to customise our curriculum delivery to match the learning style of the pupils and to convince pupils to believe in their ability to succeed. Formative assessment is a way for teachers to constantly connect with the pupils to obtain feedback on their performance. Having measureable data of the pupils' performance can enhance the teacher's understanding of the pupils' progress and learning gaps. With this knowledge, learning gaps can be close by using differentiated instructions and remediation to help the weaker pupils and challenging questions for the higher ability pupils.

Blogging as a way of sharing professionally and building rapport with pupils
New technology has given me a platform to share innovative teaching practices, working with colleagues and pupils. Communications is a two way traffic and providing the opportunities for colleagues to comment and students to share would enable open communications.

signing off..