Pedablogue, by Harvest Bird
teaching beyond tips and techniques
Plagiarama
28 May 2004, 7:34 pm
I don't know what to make of this report, in which a student and his family hope to sue his university for failing to stop the plagiarism that has led to his likely exclusion just before his final exams.All I can suggest is that some students and by extension their families are confused about what actually constitutes the relationship between teacher and learner. When fees to enrol are so high, I suspect students may imagine that the institution will be more in loco parentis to ensure their success than they actually are.
It's a grim sort of reminder to students to read their handbook. Please.
Hmmm
28 May 2004, 7:24 pm
Satire it may be, but it was due to an instinctive understanding that this might well be my fate that meant I stayed far far away from the secondary school classroom when dipping my toe in the waters of a teaching career.Short
27 May 2004, 12:12 pm
A semester is long enough to teach a course, but in terms of the time it takes to build a bond with your students, it isn't long enough.My prep lit course has one week to go, and the main feeling I have is how much I shall miss my students. From the point of view of my own lecturing, it's only really in the last two to three weeks that I've started to feel really comfortable, which is not due to students' unwillingness to learn (since they are when present generally good-to-go) but due to my own anxieties about doing a good job.
Of late, several students have been bringing friends to the lectures. They come in with another activity to work on and end up listening. That is about as flattering as it can get, I think.
Now I have the relaxed and focused classroom I've for a long time wanted, and in a week I have to give it all up.
Blinking
27 May 2004, 12:07 pm
Mondays seem to be the high-powered blog day as far as this journal is concerned, perhaps because they demand a certain reintegration between my left and right brain in order to get back into the swing of the week.Although Tuesday and Wednesday are not dissimilar from Monday at the moment, task-wise, they have passed this week in a fog of tiredness and inertia.
Sometimes I feel as if I do my week's thinking in the first six hours of my paid employment.