I had been to two training courses two days in a row including today. Seriously speaking, i really prefered yesterday’s training course which lasted only about 3 hours.
Let’s look into the details for the course yesterday:
The trainer is good and humourous. He sets aside a good amount of time for team discussions and gave a good summarisation at the end of each 0.5 hr segment. Yes, i
really agree that we remember the key points well at the end of each segment. In between the segments, we have one nice tea break 
The good thing is, he ended the
training earlier than the stated time!
The training today:
Quite lengthy. I was rather quiet and unresponsive in the whole training today. Not because of my selfishness or watever reason, but the questions posed by the trainers seems confusing. I dunno where to start contributing. Now i actually empathise how my students sometimes feel in class.
The whole course takes up to a total of 8 hours. Lots of time seemed to be spent on discussions and more discussions without any goals in the mind. Even the conclusion sounds confusing.
What i do learn from today’s course is basically this: ‘If you can’t convince someone with your ideas, confuse them’ 
Of course, it doesnt really mean that the full 8 hours was totally wasted.
A few of the topics actually seems down-to-earth and interesting, at least to our school context. For example, we discussed about ‘content in classrooms’. Are teachers giving too much content to students? Is this really necessary? What kinds of teaching style is the best? An example: Learning through solving real-life problems or just memorising and regurgitating everything from textbooks in an exam? If i were to take one ‘A’ student from each of the category, which student will have a better quality of ‘A’?
Think about the above in your free time. You can also ponder over this: how much of the information spoon-fed to you in your elementary school life are actually applied to your working life? How much of the information did you really remember after you have completed your PSLE or O’levels? Frankly speaking, i only remember selective information. In fact, i learn more from on-the-job trainings outside. The rest of the information — my apologise to all my teachers in my life. 
