Welcome (: Welcome :) We are a group of students doing a service learning collaboration with APSN tanglin school.
Our team seeks to enrich the students by improving their literacy skills through weekly tutoring sessions
This small lil website serves as the blog of our group, providing us with a platform to express our feelings in the form of a reflection.
Clarence, Daniel, Hong Jhun, Ranald, Vignes


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Reflection about first teaching session by xiiaomiao Saturday, April 23, 2011 @ 11:36 AM Overall i feel it was quite enjoyable, most of the students were responsive and were able to catch up very fast. Before this session, i had concerns that they might not be able to catch up or understand what we said. Also, i was also unsure about the difficulty of the worksheets. However, the worksheets were generally perceived as "Too easy" and most of them were able to get most of it correct although they might take more time. I believe that is a good sign and future worksheets should be set at a higher difficulty level. The class originally was supposed to have 7 students. However, 1 couldn't make it on the first day and thus resulting in the class of 4 boys and 2 girls. The boys were quite responsive and open.. and mischievous too >.<, but fortunately we were able to control them using a 'points system' whereby they gain points for answering questions correctly, and they will behave properly if we threaten to deduct their points :P On the other hand, the girls were quiet and not very responsive...  i have a feeling that they were afraid of us and thus very soft-spoken... [they were very very very very soft when we got the students to narrate the story out] Things to prepare/improve on for next lesson: 1 copy of the book for every person :) Mark the worksheets ourselves.. [dun ask them to mark.. i suspected some of cheating :X] Hopefully scan the books and use powerpoint .. [instead of me walking around] Higher difficulty worksheets [open ended probably?] Spark off more discussion/self-opinion questions Should we start spelling ( ? ) Get Hong Jhun to teach more :> [i was doing most of the talking :( ] Buy their "rewards" for the winning group .. [i honestly don't know what to buy lehh] Future sessions [as of now] [me and HJ only]: Week Date Time Attended? T2 Week 5 21th April 3:00pm to 5:30pm √ T2 Week 6 28th April 3:15pm to 5:30pm T2 Week 7 5th May Not Going [MYCT] - T2 Week 8 12th May Most prob not going [MYCT] - T2 Week 9 19th May 3:15pm to 5:30pm T2 Week 10 26th May I can't make it :< [ask HJ] - BACK TO TOP ▲ 0 hugs