Post by Kuat on Oct 30, 2007 14:29:23 GMT -8
Well, not really.
My tenure as a teacher is completed. After four weeks of teaching (for around eight days total), I've had a taste of experiencing the life of a teacher.
First, some images:
Class 1, all girls. They were all quite eager to answer, I'll say that for them:
Class 2, mixed class. Oh yeah, star pupil is the smiling girl; she was pretty invaluable. The other two were nice as well. As you can guess the assignment was to list good and bad sources of different kinds of energy (next to it are the three major functions of saliva; let's see if you can ID my crappy handwriting!):
Class 3, "slower" class. I have no idea how these kids are classified, as these are the sorts that take algebra in two years. Some were pretty bright, and when I needled the teacher on why some of these children were lumped in with... the not so bright ones, she sorta chafed. I'll go more on that later. A few obviously deserved to be there, but one of them (not pictured) is just there because... I dunno. I guess he's just lazy? Anyway, these guys probably don't think I'm so great right now, as I gave them a test:
The easiest class to control was #2. #1 got a bit excited at times, because they took it as "dissect the med student's brain on inane details hour" instead of learning about nutrition. Truth be told, I'd probably have been the same. Also, when they got too out of hand, the teacher would lecture them for like ten minutes. Keep in mind, I just had 45 minutes to actually teach. So my loudness actually came in handy to control those classes to avoid long, long, long interruptions.
Anyway, class #3 was OK, there was one kid who was a handful but I think when we gave out the tests, thankfully he was absent. One of the boys was pretty bright and answered everything correctly. To be honest, I thought the kids could use some good ol' fashioned discipline instead of slowing them down. That would only serve to keep them behind; many of them just seemed to have motivation problems. When I asked the teacher how kids are classified (not the same one), she gave me this recored answer that didn't really demonstrate anything.
I should have taken a picture of the $50,000 waste of money (which I know for the lord's holy truth I could build for under 10,000 using only Newegg, much less educational discounts. It was basically this "education station" that was a PC, some palms, a projector, and a sketechboard), but I forgot.
Anyway, it was pretty fun, and the tests showed the kids learned at least healthy choices. They may not know why, they may not remember that we don't live to breathe but breathe to live (strangest thing, that), they may not know a lot of things. However, they do know that if you eat enough cheese pizza, your insides will start reflecting that:
Heh, what can I say, I'm a big fan of scare tactics. Apart from showing diabetic amputations, I also demonstrated end stage AIDS patients, strokes, and bed sores from being morbidly obese. Fun times those were...
My tenure as a teacher is completed. After four weeks of teaching (for around eight days total), I've had a taste of experiencing the life of a teacher.
First, some images:
Class 1, all girls. They were all quite eager to answer, I'll say that for them:
Class 2, mixed class. Oh yeah, star pupil is the smiling girl; she was pretty invaluable. The other two were nice as well. As you can guess the assignment was to list good and bad sources of different kinds of energy (next to it are the three major functions of saliva; let's see if you can ID my crappy handwriting!):
Class 3, "slower" class. I have no idea how these kids are classified, as these are the sorts that take algebra in two years. Some were pretty bright, and when I needled the teacher on why some of these children were lumped in with... the not so bright ones, she sorta chafed. I'll go more on that later. A few obviously deserved to be there, but one of them (not pictured) is just there because... I dunno. I guess he's just lazy? Anyway, these guys probably don't think I'm so great right now, as I gave them a test:
The easiest class to control was #2. #1 got a bit excited at times, because they took it as "dissect the med student's brain on inane details hour" instead of learning about nutrition. Truth be told, I'd probably have been the same. Also, when they got too out of hand, the teacher would lecture them for like ten minutes. Keep in mind, I just had 45 minutes to actually teach. So my loudness actually came in handy to control those classes to avoid long, long, long interruptions.
Anyway, class #3 was OK, there was one kid who was a handful but I think when we gave out the tests, thankfully he was absent. One of the boys was pretty bright and answered everything correctly. To be honest, I thought the kids could use some good ol' fashioned discipline instead of slowing them down. That would only serve to keep them behind; many of them just seemed to have motivation problems. When I asked the teacher how kids are classified (not the same one), she gave me this recored answer that didn't really demonstrate anything.
I should have taken a picture of the $50,000 waste of money (which I know for the lord's holy truth I could build for under 10,000 using only Newegg, much less educational discounts. It was basically this "education station" that was a PC, some palms, a projector, and a sketechboard), but I forgot.
Anyway, it was pretty fun, and the tests showed the kids learned at least healthy choices. They may not know why, they may not remember that we don't live to breathe but breathe to live (strangest thing, that), they may not know a lot of things. However, they do know that if you eat enough cheese pizza, your insides will start reflecting that:
Heh, what can I say, I'm a big fan of scare tactics. Apart from showing diabetic amputations, I also demonstrated end stage AIDS patients, strokes, and bed sores from being morbidly obese. Fun times those were...
). The other ones I took; it was my camera, heh.