Today's Monday! Finally, what the three of us have been waiting for! The start of our practicum!
The day started off with morning flag raising at the podium area, where all the staff and students queued up orderly for their Monday routine. Their weekly routine starts off with singing of the National Anthem.
The staff and students all queued up for their National Anthem.
The Flag Raising Podium
A live band made up by their uniform group, the Girl Guides (女童軍)
After which, Principal Yang started presenting awards such as the Most Well-Mannered Student Award and the Most Filial Piety Student Award.
During this morning assembly, there was a miniature skit presented by the Drama Club. This is in lieu with the value of the month.
Finally, Principal Yang introduced us to the whole school and Meijuan was given the chance to give a short speech.
After the morning assembly, the three of us followed our individual Cooperating Teachers back to our classrooms.
Here are some photos of my first day of school!
The class I am attached to! (Class 406)
On a side note, my CT hopes that I can start remembering the students' names by Thursday. So, I did a little seating plan, gave out worksheets and chit chat with the students in between lessons.
They are practicing calligraphy!
Today, I managed to sit in for their Arts lessons:
The smart board in the Arts room!
Look at the talented students!
So that concluded my first day of school! Looking forward to tomorrow!
By Sian Yin/玄音
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I was posted to a Primary 5 class (509) under the guidance of Mdm Hsu, a very experienced and patient teacher with more than 10 years of teaching experience. She is very willing to share her experiences with me and even gave me the task of helping her design a powerpoint presentation on Pompeii (The text she is currently teaching), as well as preparing a 5-10 minutes introduction to one of the Chinese classic poetry the students have been memorising during their silent reading by the end of this week.
I'm very glad to be given this opportunity so early into the teaching assistantship, and I hope that I am able to complete the tasks given well.
The
students' lunch break in Taiwan is very different from our recess time
or lunch hour in Singapore schools. Almost all the students eat
the nutritious school meal provided. A few students will volunteer to
help carry the food into the classroom, while the rest will wash their
hands and utensil set they have brought from their homes.
Self-service school meal
Taiwanese
students are taught to not talk while eating as a form of dining
etiquette. This is also to prevent the spreading of viruses among
students, making them sick. I was surprised at how disciplined the students were as they queued up neatly to get their food or when getting ready to walk to another venue for lessons, almost like an army of little soldiers!
The concept and habit of recycling has been instilled into the students as young as in primary school. After finishing their meals, they will sort their rubbish into different trash bags for recycling. Each student also has their own set of utensils to cut down on the usage of disposable utensils.
I believe that schools should encourage such practice to cultivate students' habit while they are young. Though it is only the first day of school, they have really impressed me with their disciplined meal routine and awareness for the environment.
What a wonderful start to my teaching assistantship!
By Hui Yan
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I am posted to CLASS 601, with a group of lovely kids! what they impressed me the most was their good habit of reading. Almost every break, students would pick up a book and do their own reading. I could almost see their fascinated faces when they were reading! BOOKWORMS~ <3
臺灣是個充滿人文氣息的社會，而這樣一種社會氣息絕不是一兩個藝術館就可以建立起來。臺北的百姓很愛藝術，很愛閱讀；從到美術館藝術館觀賞作品的人們，從大街小巷的大大小小的書局就可以看出。他們的人文修養很好，普通百姓前往參觀藝術展都是在靜靜地、慢慢地欣賞著藝術。人們熱愛藝術，熱愛知識，熱愛學習，這些恰恰是當代很多經濟發達的社會所缺的吧。這個班級的孩子大部分都很愛看書，小小年紀的學生知識儲備就非常非常豐富。課間十分鐘，午休時間，只要一有空，學生就會自動拿出書來讀。課堂上老師問的延伸問題; 誰知到那位名人是“傲霜鬥雪”的？他們即刻能提出國內外的名人，還能稍作講解名人事蹟，有些甚至我都不熟悉，實在是汗顏。施老師懂得的東西，天文地理也很多，學生拋出的任何回答，她都能遊刃有餘地回應並給予評價。難怪他說：老師要有很多本事，知道的事情要比學生多得多，才識要能夠讓學生折服。
課室後面的書架讓我很吃驚，許多書籍是我中學的時候才開始看的。這時，施老師打開上面的抽屜，如同變魔術一般，映入眼前的是擺著更滿更滿的書的書架啊！（改天拍照給大家看）這個班級像是一個小小圖書館！
於是我也開始拿起他們的班書 《第十四道門》，加入他們的閱讀世界啦！
《Coraline》 Neil Gaiman
Got a chance to read their diary, interesting writing by students and interest comments by Shi Lao Shi.
A good starting！ O(∩_∩)O
By Meijuan
