24 October 2006
I’ve finally finished marking 20 exams. It’s the first pile in this my new PT teaching career, and I’ve already decided not to give the students any more exams. It’s just too tiresome. Never mind the inlingua policy of testing students after every fifth chapter in the text book!!!
Inlingua usually has class sizes of no more than six students. The problem is that this is a government class with 25 students in it, and I only get paid for my in classroom time. Marking exams and lesson preparation is all on my own time…which means that my motivation is decidedly lower. After some discussion with other teachers I realised I was marking the exams too strictly, and probably need to think of the process as more of an indication of their progress. (The fact that Italians are programmed to cheat quite blatantly is another problem that makes exams somewhat counter productive).
By the way, I don’t want any feedback from all the other teachers in my life who think I’m complaining…I know, I know it’s the same for all teachers around the world. But really, marking exams, what a bore!!
I’ve finally finished marking 20 exams. It’s the first pile in this my new PT teaching career, and I’ve already decided not to give the students any more exams. It’s just too tiresome. Never mind the inlingua policy of testing students after every fifth chapter in the text book!!!
Inlingua usually has class sizes of no more than six students. The problem is that this is a government class with 25 students in it, and I only get paid for my in classroom time. Marking exams and lesson preparation is all on my own time…which means that my motivation is decidedly lower. After some discussion with other teachers I realised I was marking the exams too strictly, and probably need to think of the process as more of an indication of their progress. (The fact that Italians are programmed to cheat quite blatantly is another problem that makes exams somewhat counter productive).
By the way, I don’t want any feedback from all the other teachers in my life who think I’m complaining…I know, I know it’s the same for all teachers around the world. But really, marking exams, what a bore!!
2 comments:
Exams are to let the teachers know where they are at.Mum
Dear Jenny,
Just want to know how are you going to slove the cheating problem. They will not learn anything if they just cheat. Wast their parents money for this extra english class
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