I have been educating my health education classes about personal hygiene these 2 days. I really enjoyed teaching them about stuff relevant to life. I feel more alive and engaged teaching them about the difference between an anopheles mosquito and aedes mosquito and how they can prevent mosquito breeding at home given the dengue epidemic now.. Some will tell me they share what they learnt with their parents too.
Teaching English is not so easy. Grammar can be so dry but it's really what they need to learn. It's extremely challenging to help them learn grammar in a creative way. Sometimes, when lessons get too fun, you wonder if they had learnt (and half the time, they don't). Inductive learning is most useful but with a syllabus to follow and certain concepts to teach to prep them for their exams, it takes a lot more to cultivate the love of reading in them to be that teacher who exceeds expectations (according to the system which ranks teachers).
I was supposed to talk about bad breath but got carried away. Next entry perhaps......
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