How do you waste the most time every day? Grade 6 in our school was when all the students were made to master the Wren&Martin in English. I am still trying to understand what I learned from solving the extraordinary amount of sentence analysis I completed every day as part of our English homework assignments.…… Continue reading TWT (time wasting tactics)
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Mamma said
What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily? Metaphors. I’ve been raised with quite a few, here are the two I used on my kids and their counters to mine. A progressive generation- these kids. I never had a comeback for Mum’s metaphors. I dared never to have one. But, this new…… Continue reading Mamma said
The juggler
What jobs have you had? The expert at anything was once a beginner. At the beginning of my vacations after my grade 11 exams, when I moved from Science to Arts/Humanities, Dad showed me an advertisement in the newspaper and had me apply. It was a sales-girl required advertisement. The interview was the following day…… Continue reading The juggler
Small steps to giant leaps.
What’s one small improvement you can make in your life? I started learning gymnastics when I was in grade 5. On the first day, we just watched what everyone was doing. They started with something called warm-ups and then moved along downstairs to the room to pick and assemble the equipment and the day ended…… Continue reading Small steps to giant leaps.
Listen!
What is your career plan? “The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said” Peter Drucker When I completed my Early Childhood and Childcare education, I had to work in a preschool for a few months. Back in those days, the student-teacher ratio was almost 1 teacher to every 5 or…… Continue reading Listen!
My champions!
Who was your most influential teacher? Why? I was raised with the belief that the school is our home away from home. I studied in a convent school and during the late 1980’s and early 1990s, my school was one of the best schools in the locality. We often moved homes, but my school remained…… Continue reading My champions!
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