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decade.”
This was my answer to the frequently asked question
’How long have you been teaching in CSH?”
And I would get the common reaction to it as well, usually,
a ‘Wow! A decade, so long?’
How
time flies! I started off as a young kindergarten
teacher
teaching at PAP and then, through a friend’s
recommendation joined Canossian School for the Hearing
Impaired. Yes,
Canossian School was known as Canossian School for
the hearing impaired a decade ago.
As long as I could remember, when I joined the school
in the early 90’s, it used two different approaches
to teach the hearing impaired pupils. There was the
Natural Auditory Oral approach and the Total Communication
approach.
Sr. Anne gave me a class with pupils that use the Natural
Auditory Oral approach because I did not know sign language.
The pupils were a group of tiny toddlers, some still
in diapers and milk bottles in their bags. This was
how I got started.
Canossian School not only provides me with a conducive
environment to work in, it also encourages me and the
other teaching and non-teaching staff to constantly
upgrade ourselves so that we could keep abreast of the
many developments in the educational field which affect
practice in our field.
Opportunities were also given to me to switch from a
teacher to a parent guider which I found out in time
was as challenging as my teaching career, though the
nature of the job was different.
Working in the Parent Guidance department gives me the
opportunity to work closely with parents and guardians
of the children in the school. Seeing these parents
gained confidence in themselves and make improvement
in their interaction skills with their children certainly
gave me a lot of fulfillment in my role as a parent
guider.
In many years to come, I believed that Canossion School
would continue to grow and strive for excellence to
provide good educational programmes for the hearing
impaired children placed in our care.
Last but not least, I am grateful to God for making
me a part of the Canossian Family."
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"Upon
recommendation from some Canossian’s Sisters from
St Joseph’s Home, I joined Canossian School for
the Hearing impaired in year 1999 as an earmould technician.
In year 2000, I was sent to the United Kingdom to attend
a course on how to repair hearing aids. In that same
year, I was also to Dortmund, Germany to learn how to
make earmoulds. I found both course enriching and these
had helped me to be more competent technician in the
school.
In the 5 years of service
with Canossian School, I’ve been satisfied in
my jobscope. Working in Canossian School provides
me with the training on the job and my training is
always on-going, updating and keeping abreast with
new technology in hearing aid repairs and earmould
making.
I am happy in my
service to the hearing impaired pupils and their families."
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