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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:18 am Post subject: Oxford University Having Students Sign Contracts |
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I read this article here where Oxford University is planning on having their students sign contracts to attend classes and seminars. Ha, aha!!! I should do the same thing with my students.
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| Oxford, it emerged yesterday, wants its students to sign contracts requiring them to attend lectures, a measure designed to protect it from students who later complain of receiving inadequate teaching. In truth, lectures, from the point of view of a student of the humanities at least, are a waste of time. There might be disciplines where it makes sense to prop up an expert and let him drone on for an hour, but I doubt it. The effort of sitting still and straining to listen to someone indistinctly reading a text, which has been written in unwieldy paragraphs, and has no chinks where the hearers' response might enter, is exhausting. If you doubt me, have a look at the gibbersih of any undergraduate's lecture notes. |
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BigBlackEquus
Joined: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Lotte controls Asia with bad chocolate!
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I have heard of hagwons making students sign some sort of study contract before they are allowed in. I forget the details. |
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gypsyfish
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:21 am Post subject: |
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On the first day of classes I always give my students a contract. I ask them to promise to come to class on time, to try their best, to try to speak English in class, things like that. I have them read it and sign it. I also give them a signed promise (contract) from me in which I promise to work with them, be available, to try to give interesting and fun classes.
I find it's a good way to get some commitment from the student and to make myself more accessible to them. Do I sue them when they fall short? Damn right! (Just kidding.) |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:42 am Post subject: |
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| gypsyfish wrote: |
On the first day of classes I always give my students a contract. I ask them to promise to come to class on time, to try their best, to try to speak English in class, things like that. I have them read it and sign it. I also give them a signed promise (contract) from me in which I promise to work with them, be available, to try to give interesting and fun classes.
I find it's a good way to get some commitment from the student and to make myself more accessible to them. Do I sue them when they fall short? Damn right! (Just kidding.) |
If they violate the contract, do they lose their severence candy? |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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| jacl wrote: |
| gypsyfish wrote: |
On the first day of classes I always give my students a contract. I ask them to promise to come to class on time, to try their best, to try to speak English in class, things like that. I have them read it and sign it. I also give them a signed promise (contract) from me in which I promise to work with them, be available, to try to give interesting and fun classes.
I find it's a good way to get some commitment from the student and to make myself more accessible to them. Do I sue them when they fall short? Damn right! (Just kidding.) |
If they violate the contract, do they lose their severence candy? |
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