Quote of the day:
"People don't care how much you know, they want to know how much you care." - Pn.Tan
(retired principal of a public school in Selangor)
(retired principal of a public school in Selangor)
(Excerpted from her speech during the panel sharing session on building relationship in school)
Story #1:
Today we had a class on 21st century teaching and learning. Specifically, we talked about Maker Education where kids make to learn. The speaker Nigel mentioned about how his kids surprised him over and over with their creativity and their capability to absorb and process new information.
Earlier today, some kids from ARUS (a social enterprise that focuses on introducing the secondary school students to computational thinking & coding) came to present their prototype projects to us.
THEY ARE SO AMAZING!
THEY ARE SO AMAZING!
"How did you come up with this?"
"What makes you want to do this?"
"Wah...I would not be able to do this when I was at your age!"
After seeing those kids' presentation, and listening to Nigel and TED talk speaker Sugata Mitra, my biggest take away for today is: it's totally fine for us as the teachers to play the granny role.
It's okay if the kids outsmart us. In fact, that's how the world should be.
Story #2:
(c) photo credit to Noel
Today our professional learning community (in layman's term: our small group) came together to create a vision for our group.
I love the collaboration. Everyone contributed their ideas and talents and worked together to produce this final product.
As much as I am very excited about working with this group of people over the next few weeks, I have to constantly remind myself that the group doesn't last.
I can't get way too comfortable with them because I know if I do, I will close myself up in that close circle, and I will stop trying to understand and work with people outside of the circle.
It happened to me during high school with St.John gang, during INTEC with the Eugene class, during university with Ed's bible study group. I want to avoid making that mistake again!
I need to understand that while friendship lasts, close community doesn't!
I love the collaboration. Everyone contributed their ideas and talents and worked together to produce this final product.
(c) photo credit to Nancy
As much as I am very excited about working with this group of people over the next few weeks, I have to constantly remind myself that the group doesn't last.
I can't get way too comfortable with them because I know if I do, I will close myself up in that close circle, and I will stop trying to understand and work with people outside of the circle.
It happened to me during high school with St.John gang, during INTEC with the Eugene class, during university with Ed's bible study group. I want to avoid making that mistake again!
I need to understand that while friendship lasts, close community doesn't!
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