miau...

Monday, July 21, 2008,9:48 PM

up the wall

I juz had to blog this to continue venting my frustration and anger..
the story goes like this.. got a kid in my class who seriously got on my nerves today.
I spent a whole period++ teaching the class how to add with renaming..
and to top it off, I even called on him to ask him to do a sum on the board. and somehow, dunno why, he managed to do it. but subsequently, for ALL other questions, he simply had NO IDEA HOW TO DO

anyway, after doing MANY sums with the class until my HA and MA kids cannot tahan anymore, my LSP kids finally kinda got the hang of it. but to my surprise, that boy still cannot understand or rather dunno how to use him 10 little fingers.
So I got him to come to me at the teacher's table and gave him 1-1 help.

BUT when he came to my table, and i got him to add 4+ 6, then managed to tell me 10, and after LOADS of prompting, he finally was able to write that down in the algorithm.
Then I got him to add 4+7... he took out his fingers and to my absolute horror, he showed me 4 with his fingers and when he's supposed to add 7, he recounted the 4 fingers which he stuck out. >.<" after trying my very best to try to explain to him why he has to add another 7 more with the other fingers in his hands, and he STILL did not get the drift, I couldnt take it anymore. I shouted at him. NO! it's not my fault that I shouted. Don't always blame the teacher. Sometimes it's the kid himself! he juz totally drove me up the wall, into the hole and up the pipe! and he tried to tear somemore! and when I told him to wash his face and he still came back teary-eyed, I lost it. I told him not to cry because I AM THE ONE WHO REALLY WANNA CRY.
at the moment, i truly felt the blood gushing the my brains and as if the blood vessels in my neck will burst. OHHHHH!!!!! irritating!!!!

But i told myself, i gotta COOL down....... so I took a damn deep breath and tried it teaching him again. I explained to him why he had to add it that way but STILL the bugger didn't seem to understand..
that was the last straw!!

i told him to go back to his seat. I couldn't face him anymore. with his pathetic face looking at me. i juz felt totally ally mcbeal and wanted to stretch out my arms and lock them on his neck and shake him all around.

sigh....

he's truly one of a kind. BLUR Like sotong with a DAMN pathetic face whenever anyone scolds him. URGH!

tmw i'm meeting him earlier at 11am to give him remedial on this again. will try a different approach to teach him. and hopefully this time round, the gears in his mind machine will start to work. :P however rusty they are~

>.<"
what a crazy day~

p/s: i shouted "I AM DAMN DULAN TODAY" in the general office. with the P and VP both in their offices. hopefully there won't be an email attentioned to me tmw.... hopefully they din hear me~ opps >.<"