Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Ain't dat bad..
Just finished doing time-keeping for oral exams conducted in the school hall for the past 3 afternoons. consider myself lucky or otherwise, I had to do time-keeping for only today. But the drawback is dat I was tasked to take charge of the last Normal Acad class.. which by nature, could be quite boisterous. I think the threat of them being chased out of the hall and get zero marks for making a nuisance while waiting for their turn, made these pupils think twice before they intended to do anything stupid!
n today's also the end of my teaching week for today. The school has come up with a system where the language exam papers are taken earlier than the others. I believe dats because language papers are the most time consuming to mark, especially when the essays written by these students can be very atrocious and bad. I've marked essays before, and i understand dat we can only mark about 3 essays in an hour. dats becoz of the grammatical and other types of errors students commit in their writing. so imagine if an english teacher were to have 2 classes of a total of 80 students, how long will dat take? I dont wanna know. Thank goodness I'll only be teaching maths n CPA, answers are more or less straight forward!
Despite the last teaching day of the week, the students in both my Maths Express and Normal Acad seemed to be more restless and inattentive. I guess, for me, since its going to be my second last week of my practicum, i became someone who couldnt care less if they were to pay attention or otherwise. especially in my normal acad class. Somehow they were very restless and talkative. I even warned that I wouldnt stop those who didnt want to pay attention, coz i wouldnt have much time to entertain such nonsence and wasting my time trying to get everyone to look up and keep quiet. Sigh... dats how teaching days can be at times. good luck to those who didnt pay attention, n all the best to those who's been giving much effort in their studies.
By the way, i finally managed to change my blogskin. Now i think it looks much brighter, much cheerful and more appealing. but its still Linkin Park themed. Tot of having a Matrix concept for a change, but none catches my attention. Feel free to comment on it, I'll be adding a song just like before, but will be from the list of songs found in the Reanimation Album. Can't seem to be able to load the song from school intranet..
Have a pleasant day ahead....
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