This picture just cracks me up. cos ive been the exact lazy student who read books under the table and blatantly fell asleep under the teacher's nose. and now that the roles have reversed, i now realise that as much as it was hard to keep awake in class, the teacher's job wasnt easy; If you have such students from hell, its just as hard for a teacher to continue his/her passion for teaching without suffering a detrimental fall in his/her self-esteem. i really appreciate the teachers who never gave up on us and always adapted themselves to suit our class dynamics.This is an extract that i read in a book which i thought was really inspiring and served as a reminder that in this competitive singaporean education system, i should not give up on my kids no matter how low functioning and slow and no matter their behaviour problems and how they make me wish i didnt have to teach them:
He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary's School in Morris, Minnesota. All thirty-four of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund was one in a million. Very neat in appearance, he had that happy-to-be-alive attitude that made even his occasional mischievousness delightful.
