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[Golden Lama]

My 2 Cents/Subjective Opinion:

1) Take attendance at the end of the class.

2) Give a pop quiz EVERY single class just before attendance is taken. Take the material for the entire exam from those quizzes and balance their grade 50/50, i.e. 50 for all the quizzes and 50 for the exam for the total exam mark out of 100. Each quiz should be based on the material for that class. A test that can be done in five minutes is more than adequate to drive the point home.

3A) Do not teach the students who are unteachable. Make a small section of the students who listen in a corner near the front and teach to them alone. The students in the back can choose to move closer and pay attention or fail miserably.

3B)That means for the quizzes only those who have been participating in the class get to write. Do whatever is necessary to limit the cheating; sit them on the floor, make them sit back to back, put everything but their pencil at the front of the room. Any hint of cheating should result in a zero. If necessary, schedule each student for individual test times when they will be alone in the room/your office during your scheduled duty hours.

4) Never smile before Novemember.

I really think this could turn into an excellent support group for whining about our students. Everybody seems to have an elloquent ability with the lost art of the rant; keep up the articularity.

Every person has their own personality and every class has their particular group mentality. The class of the OP's group mentality would get the absolute worst of what I have to offer as a jail warden. I hope that the administration is supportive and that they'll see any steps you take to drop the hammer on these characters as an attempt to improve the quality of the English class.

Best of luck.

[Pak Yu Man]

[Paji eh Wong]