Children Are Born Intelligent And Creative

Children are born intelligent and creative. They are just overwhelmed by the demands of what we expect them to do. 


Whenever she had writing homework from her school or from me, this student would grumble to me that she hated English, especially writing. She scored 57% in English and 24/40 in creative writing when I first met her. We progressed very slowly, with much persuasion and patience, to get her to write small paragraphs. 


After 9 months of hard and consistent work, she finally made it to 73% in the last school Continual Assessment, with 32/40 in creative writing. Her class teacher even picked the writing to share with her class. 


Thanks to parents who have trusted me and waited patiently while I slowly built the kids' interest and skills in writing. With understanding and encouraging parents, I'm sure students will be able to progress well.

Start of a New Journey

Inspired by John Holt's classic book on children's development "How Children Fail", I'm starting these new pages to record the lessons I've taken, my observations of the students' learning and my subsequent reflections.

I have observed and constantly tried ways to help children and teenagers learn, whether in the classroom, in the computer lab for IT lessons, or in one-to-one tuition. These have often gone through long observations,  trials and errors. I feel the need and urge to journal the reflections and tried methods so that I may find a more systematic and effective method to handle each different behaviour of learning.