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Defining your position with your students
Very early on in her career, a teacher is faced with an incredibly difficult choice – determining how she is going to present herself to her students.
Does she take on the no-nonsense approach? The kind of teacher that the students can’t mess around with… The kind of teacher that students listen to and respect, because when she says something she means it…
Or does she take on the friendly teacher approach, where the students all like her and like to be around her because she is so fun and sporting? Continue reading
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Why are you a teacher?
Why are you a teacher? Why do you want to be a teacher? It can’t be the money. In Malaysia we’re among the lower paid professionals, as opposed to Singapore, where teachers are among the higher paid government servants. It … Continue reading
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