So this is what it feels to be appreciated by students. For most teachers, Teachers' Day is September the first. For me, it is right now.
As part of my impending appraisal exercise, I asked students if they could include some comments on my teaching on their daily assignment exercise.
Here's what some of them wrote:
"Dear Janice,I think that you are terrific in handling with administrative matters. Your determination to impart knowledge to the class is evident. You never fail to impress us with your much effort in going the extra mile to present additional power point slides which aids us towards achieving understanding of the problem at the end of each day. I notice that you take your work seriously and deliver efficient and succinct comments by the end of every week. Your comments for my daily grades have helped me to improve and encouraged me in my learning in RP. Keep up the good work!" -- Karen
"My enterprise facilitator Janice Low, has been a very good example in showing a facilitator with good qualities. She has guided us properly so that we will understand the problem statement of the day and thus will be on the right track in solving the problem. She also ensures in many ways that we understand the topics each week and not forget them. She does this by recapping the previous lessons, going through the quizzes etc. Moreover, she always has different interesting strategies to present our presentation to make the lesson more effective and interesting. She also explains the 6P to us very well so that we will have a better understanding. The comments that she gives me and the team are also very useful as it helps me to realize my mistakes and work harder for a better grade." -- Mahesh
"Though there is a system, different facilitators have different way of running the class. Some put in more effort and make it more interesting. Some just want to do the minimum and let the lesson be normal. But some facilitator wants to make lesson different and will plan and do different things each week. A good example is Janice, the enterprise facilitator of my class. She is really a good facilitator. She is not a person who only wants to just what is required of her but rather she do it for students. Every weeks lesson is special." -- Elson
"Hi Janice, I would think that your facilitation skills are up to the standard. But you could do something better if you wish to make it more interesting." -- Annette
"faci, your lesson is interesting at times as you always have different activities for us during meetings and this really amke the class lively early in the morning. (:" -- Ying Ying
"Firstly thanks for your teaching us over the 11 weeks. You are a responsible and kindly facilitator and the only one who give us learning summary for every week via email to help us to review the lesson and learn from other classmates. Your slides are always elaborate so we can get hold of the points and targets easily. You encourage the activities in class to make our learning more interesting and effective." -- Lixia
"firstly, I can say that I hope you can be our faci for my class next year and that you are a good, efficient and caring faci. I always understand every lesson you thought us, I understand it truly, not lying. You always have a nice smile for everyone of us. Hope you can be our faci next year!" -- Pearly
And my personal favourite: "After going through 11 weeks with you as our facilitator for the enterprise module, I feel that you are one of those facilitators that are very responsible. I said this because I can see that you put efforts in conducting the class every week. This can be seen from the preparation and research that you made before the class to ensure that you are able to answer the enquiries from the students. Furthermore, you took the trouble to go through the quizzes for every week and I feel that it is very good and useful to us. Other than that, you give good comments to the students to help them to better enhanced their learning experience and help them to know what fields and things that they need to improve on.In addition, I feel that the way that how you conduct the tasks after the class is very good. You will help to compile all the slides and extracts the qualities ones to help us to have better resources to revise for UTs. Furthermore, you also did help us a lot by giving us hints, triggers and also carried out the student activities in the class very well that help us a lot to come out with the solution for the problem statements. Overall, I am very happy and honoured to be able to be facilitated by you." -- Cheng Wei
I couldn't speak for a while after reading them, so I did what I do best. I wrote. This is my email reply to them: "Dear Annette, Karen, Mahesh, Elson, Ying Ying, Cheng Wei, Pearly and Lixia, I have read your comments on me and I thank you sincerely from the bottom of my heart. Your moving words have made my day! There are days when I feel very tired, and ask myself why I am in RP doing facilitation. Then I read kind words like this from students and find my answer." -- Janice
