My mentor’s name is Ms. Chin Moey Lin and she also goes by the name Mrs. Goh. She did not start her adult career in teaching as she was with the corporate sector for a few year until about the year 1982. She choose to resign from the corporate world because by then she was married with two children. The timing for working at a corporate company is odd and that affected her time to spend with her family, let alone taking care of her two children who were young then.

 

It was after the year 1982 that Ms. Chin found out that she had the passion for teaching. I sense that her two little children were part of the inspiration that gave her a reason to go into the teaching line. To go into the teaching line, Ms. Chin took up some courses in teaching to ease her transition from the corporate world. Thus, she stared her teaching career in a government school at Bukit Damansara. She also mentioned that compared to the corporate work she was in, the teaching profession had a reasonable work time despite having endless work to do. The time spent in school is far more reasonable and that she had more time to spend with her family. Ms. Chin has been in the teaching line for thirty years to date and she has been working with Taylor’s for about twenty four years now. Now she is the class teacher for Year 3 A and she teaches them five subjects, namely, literacy, numeracy, science, International Primary Curriculum (IPC) and Character Building (CB).

 

The first time that I met her on the 25th of May 2015, I was with no doubt utterly intimidated by the way she ran her class and I was also a little afraid her fierce looks.  As I got to know my mentor more in depth by spending time with her during her free time to talk about the teaching profession and some general day by day values, I got to see the “real” Ms. Chin. She is a sociable, kind, and warm person. I personally felt like I was speaking to my mother. She speaks to me like she I speaking to a child. I felt that I belonged in her class. My mentor has the mother nature in her. I remember during literacy class, students were asked to come up with their own four line onomatopoeia and then recite it in front of the class. Some of them came up with really good ones and Ms. Chin was so overwhelmed with joy and she hugged the student. It shows that the teacher has fulfill her job by educating the students in the correct way.