Showing posts with label - METHOD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label - METHOD. Show all posts

Thursday, September 6, 2007

- METHODS: We should have been told

  • Helpful methods

Student 1: We should have been told about Learning Strategies before

Student 2: …Are you sure you've never heard of them?

Student 1: I would remember these cards (flash)

  • Fixing punishment

Student 3: I had to go home to change clothes...I was five minutes late for the test. I only found out about the dress code today (student who have been in that school for three seasons).



- METHOD: Surprising complaints against fun


Teacher 1: Some students complain about doing art or collages to learn history, they prefer if I directly tell them the content they will be tested on


Wednesday, September 5, 2007

- METHOD: Follow the credited ones

  • Students shouldn't go beyond their teacher

Student: "... I wanted the text book we use in class but the teacher said we could not take it because if we study at home, he would nothing to teach in class"


  • Student's shouldn't go beyond books

Student 1: Some student don’t talk too much because they were told they were “not credited” voices

Student 2: Yesterday I heard that...Here, see? I wrote down the teacher's instructions about Essays:
"Plagiarism is...you need to write down your sources. And I do not want your ideas about the subject. You can not use I, ME, YOU because you are not a credible source, you didn’t do many years of research"

Student1: Wow, do you write down every word teachers say?

Student 2: Almost everything, just listening makes me tired



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Dialogues&Stories (Life, School, Classroom)

- METHOD: Report card, a portrait?

S1: During the grade 12 English course, the teacher never gave us feedback … she didn’t come to class, she just sent a gym teacher (as substitute)
S2: These teachers are good…they grade easily. They don't not give us any trouble.
S1: She said so but my grade was 61!
S2: You passed. Why are you complaining?
S1: My grades are 85 and up in other courses! I could not contest it because they didn't give my book back. I wanted contest it but they lost my book (the one which was graded)...Another classmate I met in the mall was disappointed too!
S2: You are such a big baby. Did you notice our report card? They (teachers) always grade us on teamwork, even when there is no group activity in the course. Big deal, I just want to pass...go with the flow...They want me to be quiet, I open my book. They want me to participate, I tell them a joke. I act, they love me, next year I'll be gone.
S1: Yeah...and the teacher told me another teacher who I've never seen graded us. How could he grade us?


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Dialogues&Stories (Life, School, Classroom)

- METHOD: Wait, it takes time

  • Waiting 8 months for a book

Student: I received the report card by mail...I could not contest it (my grade) because they didn't give my book back...first she (the teacher) was on holiday and when I met her she said another teacher had taken my book and graded it...I went to the office again, the staff was helpful and looked for it. I spoked to my teacher again, she told me the teacher who had graded my book was not working there anymore...Nobody knew where my book was but the staff seemed confident they would find it...After 8 months it showed up. Things just take time.


  • Wait, you are learning too fast!
Student (commenting a computer course episode): As a student didn’t stop programming, the teacher said: “You are supposed to participate of the class. You never stop programming. This is why I don’t let people take the books home. What do you think is going to happen when you finish with the book? I am not paid to plan new lesson for you just because you are too fast to learn”.


- METHOD: After the course is over, we cut the cord

Student 1: The school staff made it difficult to contact the teacher after the course is over

Student 2: Were you stalking (laugh)? I meet my old the teachers all the time

Student 1: I feel like they avoided me. Let me explain: The last day of class, I told the teacher I wanted my text book with the answers back ... The office staff said she was not teaching there anymore! I thought she moved. One day, two months later, I went to the front building and found her, she is now teaching regular high school! Yeah...The school assistant didn’t lie, she is not teaching there anymore (at the back building). They just didn't tell me she is teaching in the front building!

Student 2: In my last school, teachers used to have a mail box...it was easy to get in contact with them