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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:20 am Post subject: 8000 Teachers Take Same Exam as Students |
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Personally, I think this is a good idea.
http://english.cri.cn/3100/2008/01/15/[email protected]
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8000 Teachers Sit Same Exam with Students
More than 8, 000 high school teachers took part in an end-of-term exam in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang on Monday, not as supervisors, but as examinees, local newspaper Shenyang Evening News reported.
The teachers, seated amongst the students, completed the same examination paper, in order to test their professional knowledge on the course they teach. If they score less than 80 points on a 100-point scale, they will be disqualified from receiving future rewards.
This was the first time the mechanism has been adopted in the city.
Teachers and students sit the same exam in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang on Monday, January 14, 2008. [Photo: Shenyang Evening News] |
(Hat Tip to the Japundit blog) |
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Hanson
Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:24 am Post subject: |
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If they score less than 80 points on a 100-point scale, they will be disqualified from receiving future rewards.
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What does this actually mean? They get fired? They can't get a promotion/move up an echelon? What is this "rewards"? Any guesses? |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:42 am Post subject: |
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| I couldn't find any clarification. I very highly doubt that they would be fired, but they might not get raises, promotions, or financial bonuses. |
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mistermasan
Joined: 20 Sep 2007
Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:47 am Post subject: |
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| chinese teachers are kept on a tight leash. they'll probably get dumped in the near future if they don't do well. |
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ryouga013
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| if they can't perform what they are expecting their students to perform, and most likely what they studied to be able to teach in the first place, why should they continue teaching? I follow the same philosophy. In my grammar tests I don't care about spelling because a) I'm focusing on grammar and b) I am not the best speller. On the other hand, on spelling tests and the like, that's the test. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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I always console my kids who blow a TOEFL test or whatever test they have to write by noting that half of Canada couldn't score as well as them.
Maybe I got it wrong, but I think the University of Waterloo is the only university in Canada that requires foreign and native born to pass a test of English language ability some time before they graduate. Lots of students take it every semester and only crack the test their last semester.
This was 20 years ago. My recollection could be faulty. |
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