Reflections

Helping out with this GESL project has really enlightened me alot on the learning process of education.

During these two days, i have a chance to meet kids from diverse backgrounds. Some are very well behaved kids while there are the usual mischievous ones.

In a particular media recording class, I had to step in to help the trainer with a particular child that seemed rather adamant towards following the class syllabus and being insistent on doing things his way. Later on, a young girl stepped into the class late so I took the both of them.

To my surprise, this young little primary 4 girl exhibited a level of matureness that I have not witness in most of my upper secondary students. She treated the lesson very seriously, gave a very good media recording performance, and yet at the same time understood that the boy needs a little more attention.

This incident left me to think about what kind of an education and upbringing that the little girl has been thru for her to grow and mature at such a young age. And should I ever find out the answer, I will definitely want to instil it into my class lessons in the future.

Another thing I have learnt from this project was that young kids tend to love art subjects more than academic subjects regardless of their backgrounds. Be it whether they are shy or outspoken, well behaved of mischievous, when it came to the badge making, they were all very excited at the prospect of colouring their badges and bringing it home. So much so that I had to purchase more badges as they ran out on Sat.

As educators, we can definitely explore this avenue of designing lesson plans for the students.

Cheers,
Low Kiah Yong