Eastern Pride Blog

Thank you for all the job applications we’ve received. We have already found a suitable tutor for the respective subject. All tutors, we welcome your applications for the other home tuition jobs that are still available. You may login to your tutor account to do so. Thanks.

There is now a new job opportunity for all tutors in MyLearningFriend.com. Our client, a parent in Ampang, Kuala Lumpur is looking for a suitably qualified tutor to teach Mathematics at the PMR level. Details are as follows:

Should you have further enquiries, please fill in the Contact Form here and we will get back to you within 24 hours.

If you are not a registered tutor of MyLearningFriend.com but is interested to apply for the job above, please register with us at www.mylearningfriend.com

Regards,
Jamie

Compliments to the effort from our translation and technical team, MyLearningFriend.com is now available in the Chinese version! Now, users who are more familiar with the Chinese language can maximise their navigation in our site. You can access to the Chinese site by clicking on the link located at the upper right hand corner of the web page.

As the Chinese version has just been launched, you may still experience occasional hiccups when navigating through the MyLearningFriend.com site. Please bear with us as we work our way to perfect every flaw we stumble upon. Feel free to drop us your feedback in our Contact Us form or email your concerns to admin@mylearningfriend.com.

Thanks.

Regards,
Jamie

Thank you for all the job applications we’ve received. We have already found a suitable tutor for the respective subject. All tutors, we welcome your applications for the other home tuition jobs that are still available. You may login to your tutor account to do so. Thanks.

There is now a new job opportunity for all tutors in MyLearningFriend.com. Our client, a parent in Petaling Jaya, Selangor is looking for a suitably qualified tutor to teach English at the PMR level. Details are as follows:

Should you have further enquiries, please fill in the Contact Form here and we will get back to you within 24 hours.

If you are not a registered tutor of MyLearningFriend.com but is interested to apply for the job above, please register with us at www.mylearningfriend.com

Regards,
Jamie

Dear all,

Please be informed that there will be site upgrading works scheduled today (Sunday) from 5.00 - 7.00 p.m. Should you experience any technical problems during the mentioned time frame, it may be attributed to the currently ongoing upgrading works. For enquiries, you may contact admin@mylearningfriend.com and we will get back to you shortly.

Thanks.

Regards,
Jamie

MyWordsmith & Designs, a brand new service brought to you by Eastern Pride is now officially launched! This service is dedicated to serve the needs of small business owners, all the way to even those of multinational companies who would like to outsource their web development and copywriting projects.

In conjunction with our new launch, we are now offering fantastic deals and great savings for all our web development and copywriting packages.

So if you are looking for the right people to help you design/re-design a website, look no further. You can now get stunning contemporary web designs, compelling web content complete with friendly web-based applications for your website — all at a superbly attractive rate! Check out our various packages today.

And if you need professional yet affordable help for all your editing, proof reading and translation jobs, you can check out our Express Copywriting services.

Request for Wordsmith or Web Developer and send us brief descriptions of your requirements and we will get back to you immediately. So what are you waiting for?

Come visit us today! Log on to www.myeasternpride.com to know more.

Regards,
Jamie

Thank you for all the job applications we’ve received. We have already found suitable tutors for the respective subjects. All tutors, we welcome your applications for the other home tuition jobs that are still available. You may login to your tutor account to do so. Thanks. 

There is now a new job opportunity for all tutors in MyLearningFriend.com. Our client, a parent in Jalan Klang Lama, Kuala Lumpur is looking for suitably qualified tutors to teach in the following subjects. Details are as follows:

(1) Physics [SPM]
(2) Chemistry [SPM]
(3) Biology [SPM]

Should you have further enquiries, please fill in the Contact Form here and we will get back to you within 24 hours.

If you are not a registered tutor of MyLearningFriend.com but is interested to apply for the job(s) above, please register with us at www.mylearningfriend.com

Regards,
Jamie

Teaching is an art that requires not only knowledge but the right amount of patience, technique and persistence in order to obtain results. Most students do not get things right in their first lesson and need constant repetition and a sharp mind to answer their possibly “out-of-the-mind” questions. So how should teachers these days teach in a classroom that is fast likened to a battlefield?

Get the big picture

It’s a brave new world out there. Students get introduced to the World Wide Web while still weaning in their diapers, and they get their own mobile phones for their 8^th birthday anniversary. With so much more exposure earlier in their lives, it’s no wonder why students now tend to be more quick-witted and less afraid to interact with their tutors, which is not entirely a bad thing. Understand their world, and you will be able to work out the precise way to educate them.

Adapt to the situation

Tutors should expect to exercise more control on the students under such conditions to have order in class. Encourage interaction but keep the topics relevant and healthy. Remember to adapt to the constantly changing learning environment out there. You can’t still be talking about the Care Bears cartoon when you have a teenage CSI-fanatic student, can you?

Adopting the yin and yang

You cannot pit fire against fire, just like you should never use a harsh method against a hard-headed student. Play the balancing act and use a method that can complement your student’s attitude. Rebellious students will only react much stronger against tutors who carry their whip around them, unless you want to get a complaint lodged against you over a four-letter word uttered. Remember, be firm but not harsh.

Educating students should always be a skill that needs to be updated over time. It’s almost similar to being IT professionals and doctors who keep themselves abreast with new discoveries to stay ahead of the pack. Likewise for the tutors - get the big picture, adapt to the situation and stay balanced on the act.

Attention all students,

Is working on strategies to eliminate your opponent in strategy games your way of exercising the mind like how Mathematics is meant to do, or is playing your virtual Barbie and Ken dolls in The Sims your way of learning about life? Don’t be surprised but you’re not all wrong. But being glued to the computer playing games and chatting all day, all night? Now, that does not sound too right either.

Practice moderation

Spending a reasonable amount of time indulging in your favourite games or chatting with your friends in front of your computer is not wrong. But don’t forget to practice moderation. Never take things too far by getting addicted or glued to your computer all day, all night and miss out on everything that is happening around you.

Remember, do not neglect your studies, family and friends, and most importantly, your life by throwing away your youth to the computer. Time is better spent in real life interacting with real people and working a solution on real problems.

Organize your time

Set aside a sensible time of the day for your games and chat. Playing games or chatting till late into the night or till the wee hours of the morning is a bad idea, unless waking up the next day at noon when the sun comes biting into your skin is deemed productive for you.

Early risers always have a fresher mind to start the day with. Waking up feeling dead, drowsy and hung over when half the day has gone by will only make you feel more lethargic for most of the day. And no, drowning your body with caffeine to stay alert is not the best solution either.

Getting your share of entertainment and knowledge from games and chat is never a bad idea. But be mindful of the time allocated in its application as a practice gone too far will only get you burnt and wasted. Just remember to practice moderation and organize your time well.

Most students these days live on the “kiasu” mentality, being “afraid to lose” since young. Every parent would like to see their children do well in life and win in everything possible, thus bearing a “trophy child”. However, there is only such a thin line bordering “kiasu” and healthy competition. Which attitude are you encouraging to your child then?

Accept losing as part of being successful

A “kiasu” child would be most unlikely to take losing in stride, while a child who takes challenges as healthy competition is more willing to accept a lost and sportingly cheer for the winning party. Encourage your child to take losing as part of a bigger step towards winning and a motivation to push harder and perform better the next time around. Remember, one can never taste success without first having a taste of failure.

Appreciate your competition

Most “kiasu” children dislike competition. They prefer being the only winner, conquering the throne and eliminating everyone else. Instead of instilling such narrow perspective towards life, get your child to appreciate their competition. There is no glory in winning a one-man race. Competition drives a person to move forward and stretch their abilities. Without competition, you will never appreciate success and understand how far you can actually go.

Share your success

Always encourage your child to share their success with other people. A person who is a miser with knowledge will never achieve greater knowledge and bigger success. Teaching others what you know is also a form of studying, as you are reinforcing what you have learnt when explaining to others. Therefore, cheer on your child to be generous with knowledge in order to learn a greater deal from others.

Now a scenario quite visibly seen in the urban community, the new generation of youth is being choked with such narrow perspective in life and studies while their parents get all heated up in their competition for a trophy child. Is this how you want to see your children to grow up to be? Let us all encourage healthy competition and not otherwise.