Day 3 of South Island Road Trip
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Week 1 in Fairfield College
Fairfield College is a secondary school that is very different from secondary schools in Singapore. I had a huge culture shock when I entered the school on my first day on Monday not because of the school environment or the teachers but because of the students. The first class I sat in, a Year 9 Mathematics class, was still considered not too bad. The students were generally very playful, talkative and disruptive, but they eventually still got their work done during the lesson. However, the bigger shock for that day came during the second lesson I sat in, a Year 13 Mathematics class. As the lesson was held in the Computer Lab, the students’ biggest distraction was the Internet. As the teacher went through the format for writing a report on timeline series, which was needed for the assessment the following week, majority of the students were not paying attention. They were either playing online games, watching videos on Youtube or talking among themselves. Despite being reminded to do...
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