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So let's start!!!
My past 2 years of Form 6 spent in SMJK Yok Bin, those memories created there, are mostly filled with her. Remembering that when we first went in, she really gave us a tough life there. Most of us, are so scared of her in class, until the extend like when she utter a word or questions while we are doing experiments, our hands will start to tremble and fumble around, making things more messy and palms covered with cold sweats. And even a few, who can't coped with her class, choosed an alternative way. But for me, I still remain in bio class.
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Strict, yet diligent, I would describe her. We are still not so close with her in our lower 6, but things changed last year. The same goes to us, we changed a lot too. We start to have the courage to approach her in class, answering questions by questions, begins to tease her or even joke with her. She always describe herself as transparent, because she can be scolding n lecturing away in class, but once lessons is over, she's a very friendly person, like as though there's nothing happen in class few seconds ago. So we are trained too, to take scoldings as words of wisdom instead of keeping it in heart and continue to be sad. The only way is to keep learning and changing to a better student, and adapting to her teaching methods.
Her favourite quote 'Silence is ignorance'
She believes that asking questions to students instead of spoon feeding them works better. Like she always say : ' If you would have prepare earlier and understand the syllabus, why can't you answer my questions? I don't believe in spoon feeding, keep giving you all what I know, and no interactions in class. U came to school to learn new things by your own, as a teacher, I'm only a guide, not to provide you everything while you yourself don't have the initiative to find the answer. ' This is Miss Tan. She want students to speak and voice out opinions, only through answering her questions she will know how much of knowledge lies in you, that explains staying silent means ignorance.
See? There's a lot more of our experiences during lessons that I wouldn't blog here as it will take a long time to finish this post. Anyway, for me she is a good teacher, and a successful one in this teaching line. I'm sure that we, the 2010/2011 Bio class fellows contributed a lot to make her smile and laugh and making her late teaching career more interesting.
January 20th, a slightly earlier celebration for her birthday.
See how broad is her smile... Can you imagine how happy she is?
And so this is the smile, that once upon a time it seems so far to us, a smile that we never think of owning it today.
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