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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:43 pm Post subject: Public school: the victories and the farces |
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So this morning I get to babysit the grade 3 time-killing class. These are students who have already been accepted into college programmes that don't need the 16 November CSAT test. I'm sitting at the front at the class computer as the students who are here are watching Notting Hill on my portable DVD in front of a barely half-full class. Looking out right now I see that three students are sound asleep and six other late-comers are standing outside holding their hands above their heads at their homeroom teacher's insistance. There are still at least 3 seats unaccounted for. I was going to spend half the class actually attempting some phonics and a related dialogue before watching part of a movie but instead have just started the DVD straight off. Looking through the 줄석부 book I can see all sorts of gaps from teachers who can't even be bothered to come babysit this lot (of 18-year-olds). Their homeroom teacher doesn't take the handphones at the beginning of the lesson and I assume that the other teachers who show up to babysit just let them play with them too.
Yesterday I had my two best grade 2 classes and they absolutely rocked. How student expectations can determine 99% of how they act. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:05 am Post subject: |
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But let's also be honest here....
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| How teacher expectations can determine 99% of how they act. |
There I said it, cat's out of the bag. This I think, it is biggest uncommented upon fact of teaching.............
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butlerian
Joined: 04 Sep 2006
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| ddeubel wrote: |
But let's also be honest here....
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| How teacher expectations can determine 99% of how they act. |
There I said it, cat's out of the bag. This I think, it is biggest uncommented upon fact of teaching.............
DD |
That's a nice point, I like it. But try saying that to many of the struggling teachers working in poor American and English state schools. They work and try so hard, and try to raise expectations, but the fact is that a teacher is not the only influence on children. There is only so much we can do but, yes, I agree, we can make a difference in most cases. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| ddeubel wrote: |
But let's also be honest here....
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| How teacher expectations can determine 99% of how they act. |
There I said it, cat's out of the bag. This I think, it is biggest uncommented upon fact of teaching.............
DD |
With this particular class, when they've finished and are only coming to school because Korean law says they have to keep coming until 28 December, and when most of the Korean teachers either don't even come or just show videos, I'm not about to start conducting a regular lesson if only 4 or 5 of them would be interested in having such a lesson. At any rate, most of them really got into Notting Hill so we'll finish it off next week and the week after. |
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