Saturday, September 23, 2006

Chinese Students

Nothing like students in the US at all. I wouldn't call them disrespectful really, but they do like to get into trouble. For example if you want to play a game with them that involves a ball of some type, two things are going to happen. There will be utter chaos for several minutes with no order, and second someone will get hurt. No matter how much you emphasize not to throw the ball at each other, inevitably some one will throw it at some one else as hard as they can, as soon as they can. They also feel that keep the ball from teacher is a very funny game, or backing you into a corner with their desks is quite popular from what I understand. But that is why we have work books and if they would rather work out of their books all the time rather than have fun occasionally then that is fine with most of us, as we would rather teach anyway. Once you let them get bored to tears a few times they tend to do as they are asked more often. It will always be a rough class with bored students. The last thing I want to be is a jerk, but at the same time their parents pay allot for them to come here, anyhow later

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Respect is hard to come by sometimes but you are on the right track with your students.
What kind of grading system does your school use? Does your school have parent-teacher meetings like we do? What ages do you work with?

Do you go to Wal-Mart to shop for groceries or do they have something else? Are there people selling meats and vegetables on the streets or little markets? I like your writings lately, very upbeat.

7:20 PM  

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