MicahJohn

Tag: teaching

  • 2s and 7s

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    Tomorrow morning I have a parent teacher meeting. Knowing that their parents were going to see their grades, a number of students asked if they could turn in homework late. I said yes. After school I got busy grading, they got busy doing homework. Around 8:00pm after most of the students had left, I noticed…

  • Can Someone Find the Switch?

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    Today I had a depressing experience as a teacher. Background: here in EP (the English Program where I work) students can’t fail. If a student fails a test, they retest. If they fail the retest, they retest. Etc. I have had students fail. I have sat down with them and had the joy of watching…

  • Wai Kruu Day

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    If you happen to be an American teacher in Thailand, odds are you’ll be at least a little weirded out by Wai Kruu Day. Today I with the rest of homeroom teachers for M3 (grade 9) were put on a stage. The students sat cross legged on the floor in front of us. They sat by…

  • Shirts

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    When I first showed up here at school I tried to get an idea of what attire is and is not acceptable. A lot of teachers wear yellow polo shirts (yellow is the the color associated with Monday, which is the day the king was born on, so yellow is the king’s color, so wearing…

  • At School

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    Things went well today. Certainly still learning, but I didn’t have any large minutes of feeling I had seriously blundered. God is good.