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Testing GIF images 'Second caregiver': The ITE teacher who spends hours outside of school to help her students
She rejected an offer to become a secondary teacher in her 20s, but the profession was always on the back of her mind. When Ms Lynn Chua finally took the leap of faith, she found herself teaching students not just mechatronics engineering skills but also about the love of learning.
For Ms Lynn Chua, a senior lecturer-mentor at the Institute of Technical Education (ITE)Â College West, that was the situation she found herself in about four years ago when her then 19-year-old student was struggling to finish his assignment.Â
The student, who had special needs and was on the verge of failing a module, could not finish his assignment to build a mechanical hand because he wanted to use elastic bands of different colours but did not have enough of them.
Although he could have cobbled different types of elastic bands to complete his project, he "wanted it to look a certain way", Ms Chua recalled.Â
