Like It’s Fate To Be Teaching

By Esther Chen

Teaching is a calling. From where I know not. May be if I find the person doing it, I will go after him with a hatchet. What's he doing any way? This ain't no walk in the park. Any way, this book is about teaching and why I got in it. The weird buzz we get from drinking and the hangover we suffer after that? I must be on something then.... and its dealing with the hangover now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Esther Chen
• Release date: Dec 8, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311331977

Esther Chen

Esther Chen lives in Singapore, a South East Asian country with one of the World's highest cost of living. She also major in Science and has taught in Singapore schools. She is interested in Life and Science, and also life planning and management. She works in the day and writes in the nights. Her focus is on education and study guides. Occasionally, she writes about teaching and other miscellaneous works including poetry, short stories, and children's books so enjoy her writing as it teleports you into another World.

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Like It’s Fate To Be Teaching

Esther Chen

Copyright 2014 by Esther Chen

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Contents

Foreword

One – Graduation and Jobless

Two – The interview

Three – Contract teaching

Four – Signing off my Life

Five – Lessons on teaching

About the author

Other works

Foreword

It is the nearing November now. The school term has officially ended and most school activities have stopped. That is what I will really like to write but school has not really changed much. Students are still required to come back for additional lessons, especially for ‘bridging programmes’, ‘structured holiday programmes’, ‘co-curricular activities’, ‘remedial programmes’, and ‘special programmes’. With these many activities, school has not quietened down at all.

While a portion of school teachers go to fulfil their invigilation duties at other institutions, a significant portion of colleagues stay within the school to carry out all these activities. Still, it is a comparatively slower pace as compared to the usual, and I get to return home after only 8 hours of work instead of the usual 12. So I must count my blessings that school may have finally wound down for the year.

As I work from my cubbyhole, natural conversations flow across the thin walls to my personal space discussing plans for the holidays. Overseas trips with family and friends; preparation for next year; and even baby photos are some of the topics discussed during this relaxed period. As I reminisce in the events