Thursday, May 10, 2007
Arrived in school early today. Will need to do some things with the pupils. About fifteen of them will be having having Higher Mother Tongue today. I have to keep the other half occuppied. Will go out with my family tomorrow. My uncle, from Canada, came down. The whole family treating Uncle Herbert and Auntie???. Looking forward to meet them.
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Exams are here again. It is a love - hate relationship.
We need exams to keep us focussed, however, it comes with lots of overheads,like
stress(when pupils do not know or refuse to learn or even put in the effort) and it leads to
frustration.
Sometimes I wonder whether they understood what was taught. The effort that you put in does not equal to the effort. I feel that I am all alone. It is a terrible feeling.
I understand that every child would like to pass, no one wants to fail. However, they are not
putting in the effort. I will ask them to do an exercise or written work, I feel that they are trying
to see what will I do if they don't do it write. The standard reply when they do something wrong is, I had forgotten what you said, when it was just mentioned. I think the 6 words should be banned or removed from the dictionary.
As you can read, I am frustrated. I cannot deny it. I am.
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