Friday, September 03, 2010

Affirming Teachers #2


To get us prepared for MOE accreditation, LSK teachers was given a “test” on LSK’s philosophy, vision, learning domains, school practices etc few months back. It was a rather tough paper where we took more than a hour to complete.

The “test” started formally but towards the end, few of us started to “discuss” answers and some even got help from the principal. So from a serious-moment, it turned out to be casual.

1-2 weeks ago, we received our test paper and everyone PASSED!
We were informed before the test that whoever gets a certain % of passing mark will be rewarded.

At our Teacher’s Day lunch, beside our shopping voucher, all of the teachers received another envelope and it was … … cheque of $200!
It was reward from the management (of course proposed by our principal) to affirm us for putting in effort to study for the test.

I’m amazed at their generosity.
1) everyone passed and I believe all hit the expectation
2) it was not so much done individually but there were help/discussion
… BUT still they never pro-rate but a full $200 cash was given to EACH one of us

To make our Teacher’s Day more completed, Mrs E Tan proposed to the management to give to us on Teacher’s Day … how cool is that!? Double blessings!

Just when I thought “all perfect”, satisfied and overwhelmed by the blessingsss, received a sms from Mrs E Tan:

“Happy Teacher’s Day! I am sorry and feel sad that I only managed to get from management team $200 for contributions to accreditation and vouchers. I am looking forward to meeting them again with the proposal for a year end special performance bonus. But I hope you are happy with the personalize cup that is meant to remind you our journey together. Love you and appreciate you lots!”

Wow… what else can I say?!


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