Comments | enluya: first ptps teaching

enluya

first ptps teaching

Mar 10, 2005 22:18

Comments 8

venaja March 11 2005, 06:26:48 UTC

California has one of the worst high school systems in the nation, period. It is ranked anywhere from 40th-49th depending on who you go by, but it's never anywhere above the bottom 20%.

Any little bit of help you can give is appreciated. Don't become discouraged so easily. The whole reason you're there is because those kids need your help.

enluya March 12 2005, 00:32:23 UTC

yeah, i shouldn't allow the conditions to make me doubt my purpose there. any help is help, even if it won't send them straight to college. the basic math skills they learn can still be very useful later on in their lives.

_operator_ March 11 2005, 17:49:26 UTC

Sometimes a lot of us forget how priveleged we are to be in the school systems we were in and have an understanding of the school system. I was just at a family gathering of my father's family and I was talking to the kids there that were my age and a lot of them didn't even know what the SAT was. A lot of them don't have parents who went to college and know how the system works. I guess their schools aren't doing a good job teaching and preparing them either. In the culture and neighboorhoods they live in, a lot of kids just don't go on to 4 year colleges.

enluya March 12 2005, 00:36:34 UTC

yeah, the power of the shituation. :(

micscop March 12 2005, 00:45:49 UTC

Motivate them.

enluya March 12 2005, 11:27:55 UTC

hehe, i think they're quite movivated, just wish they had someone there to guide them from the start.

ablysstic March 12 2005, 02:08:41 UTC

wow, what a powerful entry. that's really great of you to help those students like that. it can be so frustrating sometimes to see people that just do not know something and then realize you have to rethink how to teach them what you took for granted they already knew. i do that a lot, but now i am used to it. i never took my sat's. i knew i was going to do my first 2 years at community college so i could stay at my jobs and besides i knew i would have had to pay to take the sat's and didn't really have the money. seeing students over here and comparing them to students back in the states, i am realizing there really is NO comparison. the competition is mega fierce over here. did you know that the highest scorer on the gre is consistently, every year a chinese person?

enluya March 12 2005, 11:45:49 UTC

hehe, i didn't know that, but i'm not very surprised that chinese's always has the top GRE scores.
i like explaining math to the students. it's good way of confirming that i myself really know the stuff well, well enough to be able to rethink about the math and come up with at least 3 ways to explain it.
yeah and the price of all those SATs and AP tests was something i didn't pay much attention to, now i see that they're actually quite expensive! especially for some of the students who even had problem coming up with 10 dollars.