... is a freaking waste of time. It makes me wonder if people shifts to a job in the MOE HQ just to get a good time, because they are clearly very incompetent teachers. All the instructors for the different groups uses the exact same lesson plan, and they said they are there to teach us creative CME lesson delivery. They can't bluff anyone with their lack of presentation and management skills, peppered with cliches motivational phrases and useless activities that seems to be designed only for us to keep ourselves away by doing something.
Such workshops are seriously crap, and the instructors really should wake up and realise that they have been cheating for a living all this while. First, they should ditch those group activities in which mahjong paper is the essential pedagogical tool for showing the groups' collective wisdom when asked to present on certain topics. Come on, no one is freaking learning anything by contributing like this. And then, maybe ditch that stupid thing called powerpoint too. If that all there is to MOE's creative use of ICT (which they expect teachers to design and produce for every lesson day in and day out, nevermind that teachers have many other tasks to do in real life?), it is pathetic.
Demonstrate the concrete activities that kids can enjoy and participate in and ditch that philosophical crap on principles of CME and its design rationale. Show me the 'real and authentic' content which can actually be presented in class and stop asking us about why we need to set a proper tone of environment et cetera. Having gone through 2 years in NIE, we all know how to recite those meaningless catchphrases and big ideas; why ask us to tell them to you?
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