Tag: teaching
-
Lines
The other day after classes I went outside the school and ordered a snack. There were a number of students who had already ordered ahead of me. I waited. After I’d waited a while the vendor made a comment about my patience. He wondered that I didn’t tell him to serve me, the teacher, before…
-
Triangles
Yesterday I copied a math problem from a textbook onto a test. Today as I was grading the test, I discovered that the geometry of the triangles (as drawn in the textbook) was impossible. As a result students’ answers varied depending on their process. Should you ever decide to write a textbook, please make sure…
-
Swine Flu
The infamous flu has made its way not only to Ubon, but to the school where I teach. As a result the school is closing for a week. The student reaction is very mixed. Some are quite scared. Others couldn’t be more thrilled to get some extra days off school. I have a sore throat.…
-
Wai Kru Day วันไหว้ครู
Today is Wai Kru Day at my school. It is a day when students show their respect to their teachers. I don’t know if my ego is getting way too large, or if I am adjusting to the culture, but this year it didn’t feel as strange to have all my students bowing down to…
-
Grades
At the school where I teach grades are submitted both in hard copy and digitally. Both seem unnecessarily cumbersome. The hard copy of the grades is a multiple paged book that includes daily attendance, behavior scores, standardized testing scores, unit scores for first semester, mid term scores (broken down into unit scores), unit scores for…