Catchy Learning Cottage

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Trailing the good old time

Welcome, Ms Audrey Lim Bee Yoke and Dr Wagheh Shukry bin Hassan :

We would like to welcome our two new lecturers to ELTC. Before joining us, Ms Audrey Lim Bee Yoke and Dr Wagheh Shukry bin Hassan were attached to IAB. May your stay with us be an exciting and productive one.

With Dr Choong and Ms Joy (ELTC)

I am not trying to brag or exaggerating things here, just being very honest with myself.Somehow the best memories cant just be shut down or erased easily.
Trailing back time, that statement might be said or uttered to me in 2009. That if I didnt turn down the offer by Dr Choong Kam Fong, the Director of ELTC Kuala Lumpur herself to join ELTC.

Dr Choong Kam Fong
the Director of ELTC,Kuala Lumpur

Urghhhhhhh....!!!!
There's still an unbearable pain in my chest thinking about that, painfully refusing or turning down the 'best offer ever ' (said all my friends who happened to know about this.)

Goshhhhh !! Didnt you guys know how hard it was for me to do that but actually without some of my friends' knowing- that was not the best offer ever.

That was the second best offer which I had to turn down. The first best offer was the offer to pursue my study in doctoral degree at the National University of Singapore by Dr Tan Kok Eng ,

my mentor from RELC.

Dr Tan Kok Eng
RELC,Singapore

When family is your first priority, you wont mind turning down golden opportunities even though

you know you will still feel the pain in your heart whenever you think about it or them.

I still feel the pain whenever I accidently think about all those good moments..................

p/s :

Cik Bashirah Begum (JPN Kedah)

Ani Aishah Fatimah Leong Abdullah

Fatimah Din

Raja Azelina Puteri Syaban

William Raj

Karam Kaur

Janet J Sammai

Suhaimi Idris
Hafeez Ismail

You guys knew how I felt about all these.......thanks for being there when I needed you guys the most.

Luv forever..............

Friends who understand You

Kedah Clipsters with Cik Bashirah and
Dr Choong Kam Fong

With Ani Aisah and Suhaimi

Clipsters at Sentosa Island

Mr James Marshall Lopez-ELTC

Mr James Marshall Lopez

In this entry tonight, I would like to introduce the one and only person who have made the first step to come up with Contemporary Children Literature and the person have made us the guinea pig of his research.(but we didnt mind at all cos we gained as much). Here you are :

Name : James Lopez
Designation: Head of Department
Department: ELT Management
Qualifications: B. Sc.; Dip. TESOL; M.A. (TESP)

He is a lecturer in the ELT Management Department of ELTC, Malaysia. He began his teaching career in Kelantan, Malaysia as a teacher of mathematics and science in a government secondary school. Following that he joined the Teacher Education Division of the Ministry of Education as a lecturer in Mathematics and Language education. He had served in colleges in Sarawak, Terengganu, Penang and Kuala Lumpur before being seconded to the task force for the establishment of ELTC.

He was (and still is) involved in the recent policy change to teach mathematics and science in English, especially in helping the teachers make the switch from Malay to English as the medium of instruction in these subjects. In particular, he is actively involved in the development of the English for Teachers of Mathematics and Science (ETeMS) project that covers all the mathematics and science teachers in the country.

He is currently working on a Mentoring Programme for Newly Qualified English Teachers which the ELTM department hopes to introduce in the near future.His other interests are in the fields of English for Specific Purposes and Law.

p/s ;
I will stop here for the time being as the patience to continue writing is going down a little bit so better if I pen off for a while but I promise to return to this entry with more photos regarding Mr James.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

To All Moms Who Have Made Us Great Educators

Wanna Be A Super Mom?

Friday, May 6, 2011

How Sweet

Thursday, May 5, 2011

A Clearer View Of The Nilam Tree

The flowers with numbers pasted on them.Colourful flourecent stickers
will make your job much easier and the product more enhanced.

Now you can see the flowers and the number pasted on each flower.
The number is actually belongs to an individual personnel in my class.
They really take care of their flowers as the flowers and numbers promote
them as active readers.

To answer questions asked and to make the pic clearer, I have cropped and enlarged the original version
of the Nilam tree.
Hope this will help the readers who are interested to share this idea .

The NILAM Trees Project

The NILAM trees project is actually an idea to encourage the reading habits among students.They compete among them fairly and practise the win-win situation in the classroom.

Each student who read 5 books will get a flower and he/she may stick his/her number on the flower. Then the students will have the privilage of choosing where to paste their flowers on the prepared column. May they be on the branches,roots or even scatter on the ground together with the green grass. They make their own choice.

By the end of the year, the King and Queen Readers will be chosen from the students who read the most. And of course, undeniablly interesting prizes await.

Care to try ? Your students might like this idea but you readers might have to work extra miles to prepare the column and the flowers, as well as the numbers. Quite hectic and handful but you wont regret doing it, I bet!