One Inch Closer to babysteph

been thinking quite alot about teaching recently…wondering if i’m in the right vocation…reli starting to have doubts. the worst thing is, if i’m in the wrong vocation, i’ve still gt 5yrs of bond to serve, b4 i can leave.

i came into teaching because i love teaching. realised it when i was teaching adults in the private sector. itz one of the rare jobs that can reli give me the satisfaction. and when i teach, i reli forget about everything else, including all the troubles & worries of life. most importantly i was always appreciated by students (the adults i was teaching).

and now, i feel that i’m in the wrong career path, also because of teaching. meiting is right..i love teaching, but i really don’t like all the ‘complimentaries’ that come with it..all the admin work, all the long meetings, all the MOE policies, all the CCAs, remedials, seminars, recess duty, traffic duty, funny funny forms to fill, bla bla bla… yes, in other words, i love teaching & only teaching!

i guess working with MOE is just not suitable for me. i need freedom! and kids nowadays don’t appreciate us as much as adult students do. let alone the parents.

things were still ok last yr, when i crossed-over fr dip ed, i tot i’ll make teaching my life-long career. the doubts all came piling over some time this yr..aft MOE announced all the new policies…Teach Less Learn More, Innovation & Enterprise, etc, etc…

come on, to make just ONE policy successful needs yrs & yrs of adaptation & effort. MOE is not giving teachers enuf time to breathe! policies coming down one after another, almost immediately, hw r we going to cope?! how r the policies gg to b successful?! to say in a blunt way, MOE is coming up with more & more ‘patterns’. and somehow i just feel that teachers nowadays r more like CLOWNS, having to juggle so many stuffs @ one time.

so those of you who aren’t teachers, pls don’t be like those ignorant people, especially some taxi drivers, who, whenever hear we r teachers, will say, "wa, teacher gd ah, teach half day only, means only work half day & holidays so long some more…" hello, a normal teaching day starts @7am & ends aft 6pm, even then work still piles up. and half of our holidays r gone, because of workshops, meetings, etc, etc, all the bullshit things.

haiz…dunnno la, i don’t hv to tink so much now, cos haven even graduated..but recently, dunno y, feel very negative about being a teacher with MOE…