Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Ego boost!

I had wanted to spend some time taking stock of the year, as well as share thoughts on my worries about formulating a plan for the future... seeing that my bond is about to come to an end.

All that kind of flew out the window after I spoke to a parent this evening.

She told me her girl loves and respects me and that she hopes I will be the child's form teacher again next year. Of course she said other ego boosting things, but that's the gist of it.

I guess sometimes, it's difficult to see how one's actions/words can affect a child.

I gave out prizes for my A and A* students, naturally. $5 popular bookstore vouchers for the pupils who met target.

Then after all the clapping, I announced that I was not done giving out prizes (At this point, one of the boys was like "Score B got prize?"  ... -.- )

Then I proceeded to give "Amazing Improvement Prizes". The criteria.. either a) Improve by more than 10 marks or b) Improve by less than 10, but showed me he/she had been very hardworking this year.

This particular girl scored less than 40 in her mid year papers for Science, then she proceeded to score 60+ for her end of year exams. So I told her how proud I was of her for working hard and doing so much better.

I think she went home and waved the voucher around to show her parents.

That resulted in the rather ego boosting phone conversation today.

So much for taking stock. I'll save that for the holidays, or for a day when I'm thinking clearly.