Jeff and Teacher A
This lady is very precious to me. When I first started preschool teaching in a church kindergarten at 20yo, without my NIE training yet, she mentored me alongside (we took a K2 class each then).
Each time I needed help after school, she dropped what she was doing or preparing for her class students and took time to guide me through. I remember the many after school hours she spent training me (she didn’t have to, all teachers could leave school by 2.45pm).
The most valuable things she taught me :
1). Impart our Christian values into our charges and model Christ in the way we discipline and train them (Proverbs 6:22). Train the children lovingly and firmly. This is how I acquired the skill of talking to my children and they listen up. I never need to scream at my students for their misbehavior.
2). Have to partner with parents effectively , for the benefit of the child. I saw through her, how parents can become friends too or at least, great partners who complement your school teaching.
3). I want to be my students’ positive memory. I want my students to look back and if they can recall , they remember that their best childhood days were those days when they came to Mrs Ng or the then Miss Liau’s class .
I had the privilege to take my mentor to Hi-Tea at GoodWood Park hotel (a place Josh and I bumped into her when we were courting and she shifted to a table in the courtyard to give us privacy) last Saturday. She is such an encourager, not only as my mentor, now as my younger son’s teacher and as a mother who is 6 years ahead of me too. I can draw valuable lessons in bringing up and relating to a teen daughter.
Thank you, Mrs A Lim. You’ve been an inspiration , forever.
Thank You, Lord for her.
Amen.
