I'm so bad at opening letters omg. other people open them so nicely it looks like a new envelope, and then there me with the mutilated paper thing.
Coloured toothpaste makes me happy. White toothpaste is so boring.
today I'm going to judge my sec 4 teachers.
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starting with my form teacher, who teaches physics. he's a good teacher who goes in depth into the topics, which I really like, and he also trusts us to be responsible students, which I also like. sometimes he can talk for long periods of time about our future and expectations and stuff like that, but I guess that's his duty as our FT. comparing to my previous teacher (in sec 3), I'd say my teacher is more about the subject and what he's teaching, and my previous teacher was more about how he gets what he wants us to know across to us.
next, english teacher. when I first read his emails (before I actually met him irl), I was like "eeee why this teacher liddat one write so much, expect so much", but after the first 2 lessons of english I was like, wow. WOW. firstly, even though some people may complain that he speaks too fast, I think that his speed is what makes the lesson oh so interesting. mind-blowingly awesome. he's organised too, so that's definitely a plus. and I totally see how his emails suit his pace and teaching style. he's the best english teacher I've ever had since the dawn of time.
I'll talk about my chinese teacher next. surprisingly, her lessons are not mundane. I can see that she's trying to increase the happy energy level of our class, but we're so unresponsive because our previous chinese teachers were all so not-happy-to-teach-chinese-ish, and we're not used to fun in chinese classes lol. she's an average teacher but I think "the amount of effort from me" and "the effectiveness of her classes" are proportional for her kind of teaching style, so I just have to jiayou.
one word I'll use to describe my math teacher would be "thorough" (it's not a bad thing). he does everything in the notes, a teaching style I'm not so used to. I just hope that when revising, he'll highlight the more important points and unhighlight the not so important points. like compilation or something, so I don't have to flip through the whole stack of math notes to study. his pace is a little slow (an effect of being so thorough, I guess), but some of my classmates understand better like this, so who am I to complain?
my chemistry teacher is so cool, and actually gives us answers when we ask them. I think he takes the effort to make sure we'll be ready for tests at any time. I think his teaching style is good for chemistry, but only if I'm not falling asleep by then. nothing much to say about him.
my biology teacher is awesome hahahaha. I like her style and I wished she had taught us in sec 3. she's also really good at comebacks. she's very matter-of-factish. I think she can use more diagrams for her slides and maybe use the textbook a bit more (since biology is a textbook study kind of subject).
moving on, my geography teacher is the same as last year, and she's starting a new note-taking thing, which I think will be useful to us when we're studying (if it's updated properly). I think she gives a lot of group work, which may be good or bad, but she's really responsive to questions, so that's a plus. she's a decent teacher who very understanding, but I think geography is a subject that is easy to memorise, hard to conceptualise. ooh that rhymes. anyway, that's why it's pretty hard to teach without making it seem like she's teaching purely for exams.
social studies was made awesome by this very teacher. she was my teacher last year, and she's still awesome, because she's so lively and animated when talking about the topics. she makes everything look so simple and I actually understand it well. I need to take more notes when she's talking in order to digest the information properly though.
- short break lol I just signed up for a mylibrary account :D -
now biotechnology. my lecturer is still the same, and he's still okay-ish. hopefully he'll actually answer questions directly this year, but his study thingy before each exam is useful (hopefully that'll continue this year, but maybe I'll try to request that he gives it earlier too).
my music teacher is... okay? I would say that she treats us a bit too much like primary school kids though. idk how one would teach music in a way that isn't either super boring, or super ununderstandable. hopefully she'll be okayer.
that's pretty much it! okay I'm going to find food byebye.
lynn