Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Maria Yap was in the education service from 1973 to 2023. She recalls her early struggles as a beginning teacher and how she learned to manage students. She gives her views on the streaming policy and teaching students from the Normal stream, whom she found to be very intelligent.

00:00 Introduction

01:54 Joined Teaching in 1973

08:18 I Loved to Learn

17:33 Institute of Education & Her First Classes

23:28 Managing Students

28:27 Streaming & Mother Tongue

32:20 Teaching Normal Students

I am Dr Loh Kah Seng, the people’s historian. In Chronicles of Old Singapore, I speak to people about their memories of Singapore before it became a global city.

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