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I took a loooooooooooooong time to really plan my lessons. Usually these lessons are very effective as i really give it a good tought. I admit that I did not do it for every lesson, but I usually try to at least do it for 3 lessons a week for each of the class I am teaching.

Now that I am teaching 4 English classes make it even harder to do it. I took a looong time to get to know the children and get into a rhythm of teaching them. Switching classes 3weeks before exams are crazy stuff for me. I know I dont live in an ideal world, but I would like to make the world I am living an ideal place for me. I want to give the kids the best English lessons on a regular basis.

But when you have to deal with 2 fire drills, fire fighting demo, safety talk, rehearsals for Hari Anugerah, then Bengkel Menjawab Soalan in the evening ALL in the SAME day. It is hard for me to give my best to my kids.

This week is crazy mad. There are soooo much activities in one week that I have not done any teaching yet these week. NOT A SINGLE LESSON! I don't know what to write in my record book. I don't think I can teach tomorrow. I have prepared many handsout for the kids. and I feel soooo sad.


Teachers are told to teach the kids as if they are teaching their own kids. You dont have to tell me that. I know it. I have been teaching them because they are  my own kids. I am not a super woman. I cannot come home at 5pm everyday and be in school the next morning fresh, full of energy and life to teach these kids when I did not prepare anything for the lesson.

When the Year 1 kids are performing, the teachers who trained them are even more excited than the kids. Biasalahhh cikgu lebey dari budakk... huhu. Cikgu gaya lebih dari budak..hahaha. But thats how it should be! Teachers are required to do more than the kids are doing. They won't get 100% of what we do. So we have to show to them 200% of what they are supposed to do. Then they will get the 100% that we want to see.. Thats why teachers are so tired. We go all out to make sure the kids are good.

Thats why we can only work 5days a week, officially from 7.30am to 1.30pm. because we need those extra hours to recover from the day, to finish what we could not finish before 1.30pm, to plan for tomorrow, to get ahead of the kids, to make sure we are up fresh, full of energy, and life to run the show once again.

Teachers are actors and actresess. Good ones.