have we done our best (yet)?
wow!
my last post was back in 2011. which was like 3 years ago.
so what happened for the past 3 years was:
1. i left home & finished my postgraduate studies in a different country.
2. got myself a job.
3. been working for about 2 and a half years.
i work in a university now. and occasionally try to educate young minds to have at least some sense of self-preservation while i share with them the tales of my youth. hahaha.
oh the irony.
i'm 27 now.
no longer that 24 year old deer-out-of-headlights trampling on the streets of the city getting lost on the way back frm campus.
anyway.
why so sudden?
suddenly i miss writing. it's like i've been ignoring what's in my blood for bigger, more important things.
and then suddenly,
today happened.
i teach for a living.
but sometimes i don't get to choose the kind of audience i'm placed with. which should be fine most of the time.. but.
anyway. i try my best so that they get it.
so that they get what they're here for.
so that being a student isn't just what they do to kill time while waiting for adulthood to arrive -_-
so i think
if your students keep flunking and are having trouble just to commit to normal student requirements, there's seriously something wrong AND you should do something about it.
yes i know they're not babies anymore & that this is a university, but if something like that keeps happening, something must be done. and if you are the one whose class is where its happening, then shouldn't you try and do something?
it's not right. maybe they're not be the best student in the world but as educators why can't we ask ourselves have we done enough? have we done everything within our power to make sure that they get it? when they err did we correct them, when they do it wrong have we shown them the right way? have we even tried our best to discipline them or reprimand their wrong choices? or did we just leave them to their own devices just because "they're not babies anymore"? have our unwillingness to care in the end allowed them to continuously make the same mistakes and eventually fail (AGAIN), or drop out of the program?
sometimes people have to know that they did wrong in order for them to correct themselves. and sometimes the best reminder is the warning that they get when they screw up.
maybe sometimes it's harsh, but at least we are telling them that its the wrong road while they still have a chance to turn back and choose the right one.
at least we are giving them their rights to be corrected.
at least we are doing something. for them.
because it's disappointing that your refusal to do what i think should have been done for them earlier, ended up being a mess that I'm supposed to clean up.
now that majority of them is failing your class (and some, for the second time), i am the one who have to take over this subject from you.
you brush it off when i try to talk about it with you but i can't help but feel it's not even supposed to be my problem in the first place. they should have finished and passed and should have already moved on to their industrial placements.
but no. you say they're adults now that we shouldn't have to keep on pushing them for anything, but don't you get it, this isn't about being young or old. this is about doing your best as an educator. and can you seriously say that you have done enough to make sure that they were truly educated- with every sense of the word?
because, i hate to tell you how to do your job but right now i'm the one stuck with this mess for the next semester.
tysm
my last post was back in 2011. which was like 3 years ago.
so what happened for the past 3 years was:
1. i left home & finished my postgraduate studies in a different country.
2. got myself a job.
3. been working for about 2 and a half years.
i work in a university now. and occasionally try to educate young minds to have at least some sense of self-preservation while i share with them the tales of my youth. hahaha.
oh the irony.
i'm 27 now.
no longer that 24 year old deer-out-of-headlights trampling on the streets of the city getting lost on the way back frm campus.
anyway.
why so sudden?
suddenly i miss writing. it's like i've been ignoring what's in my blood for bigger, more important things.
and then suddenly,
today happened.
i teach for a living.
but sometimes i don't get to choose the kind of audience i'm placed with. which should be fine most of the time.. but.
anyway. i try my best so that they get it.
so that they get what they're here for.
so that being a student isn't just what they do to kill time while waiting for adulthood to arrive -_-
so i think
if your students keep flunking and are having trouble just to commit to normal student requirements, there's seriously something wrong AND you should do something about it.
yes i know they're not babies anymore & that this is a university, but if something like that keeps happening, something must be done. and if you are the one whose class is where its happening, then shouldn't you try and do something?
it's not right. maybe they're not be the best student in the world but as educators why can't we ask ourselves have we done enough? have we done everything within our power to make sure that they get it? when they err did we correct them, when they do it wrong have we shown them the right way? have we even tried our best to discipline them or reprimand their wrong choices? or did we just leave them to their own devices just because "they're not babies anymore"? have our unwillingness to care in the end allowed them to continuously make the same mistakes and eventually fail (AGAIN), or drop out of the program?
sometimes people have to know that they did wrong in order for them to correct themselves. and sometimes the best reminder is the warning that they get when they screw up.
maybe sometimes it's harsh, but at least we are telling them that its the wrong road while they still have a chance to turn back and choose the right one.
at least we are giving them their rights to be corrected.
at least we are doing something. for them.
because it's disappointing that your refusal to do what i think should have been done for them earlier, ended up being a mess that I'm supposed to clean up.
now that majority of them is failing your class (and some, for the second time), i am the one who have to take over this subject from you.
you brush it off when i try to talk about it with you but i can't help but feel it's not even supposed to be my problem in the first place. they should have finished and passed and should have already moved on to their industrial placements.
but no. you say they're adults now that we shouldn't have to keep on pushing them for anything, but don't you get it, this isn't about being young or old. this is about doing your best as an educator. and can you seriously say that you have done enough to make sure that they were truly educated- with every sense of the word?
because, i hate to tell you how to do your job but right now i'm the one stuck with this mess for the next semester.
tysm