Comments on: A Good Teacher? http://alaninkenya.org/2008/10/30/a-good-teacher Living and working in Nairobi, Kenya Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:54:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Alan http://alaninkenya.org/2008/10/30/a-good-teacher/comment-page-1#comment-277 Alan Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:30:17 +0000 http://alaninkenya.org/?p=175#comment-277 Thanks for stopping by! I'm not sure if my students cheated or not, but part of me doesn't really care; that question is on a test which is responsible for 10% of their final grade. About the past exams, it seems to be a policy around here to go over past exams with the students... Whatever! I dunno, some of the students seem to just "get it" with or without the extra help like past exams and cheating, and it always seemed like that was the case in University in the USA too. Thanks for stopping by! I’m not sure if my students cheated or not, but part of me doesn’t really care; that question is on a test which is responsible for 10% of their final grade. About the past exams, it seems to be a policy around here to go over past exams with the students… Whatever! I dunno, some of the students seem to just “get it” with or without the extra help like past exams and cheating, and it always seemed like that was the case in University in the USA too.

]]> By: Tracy http://alaninkenya.org/2008/10/30/a-good-teacher/comment-page-1#comment-276 Tracy Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:45:48 +0000 http://alaninkenya.org/?p=175#comment-276 Hey Alan, Sorry this comment is so late, but I'm just catching up on your blog now that I'm home (My Father is ill so I'm back in Canada on Compassionate leave). We had the SAME thing happen in our school this year. The students showed up 5 weeks late because the universities needed to make first selection. When they arrived we were under the impression that we would have an extra 5 weeks at the end to teach the important stuff like anatomy and physiology, but after 2 weeks we found out that they weren't extending the term so we had to pack 11 weeks of class into 6 weeks. It was so discouraging. My colleagues handled it much better than I did. They were much more able to be flexible and adaptable than me. Unfortunately this kind of thing is more than commonplace and people have just adapted to doing the best they can in a less than ideal situation. I don't want to discount your wonderful teaching skills, as I'm sure you are doing a great job, but did you consider that the students may have shared the exam question? I would just be a bit suspicious that EVERYONE got it right. I know it happens a lot at our college that the students sell old exam questions. A student came to my office once with like 4 old exams and was asking me to give him the answers….it was a good try I guess Hey Alan, Sorry this comment is so late, but I’m just catching up on your blog now that I’m home (My Father is ill so I’m back in Canada on Compassionate leave). We had the SAME thing happen in our school this year. The students showed up 5 weeks late because the universities needed to make first selection. When they arrived we were under the impression that we would have an extra 5 weeks at the end to teach the important stuff like anatomy and physiology, but after 2 weeks we found out that they weren’t extending the term so we had to pack 11 weeks of class into 6 weeks. It was so discouraging. My colleagues handled it much better than I did. They were much more able to be flexible and adaptable than me. Unfortunately this kind of thing is more than commonplace and people have just adapted to doing the best they can in a less than ideal situation.

I don’t want to discount your wonderful teaching skills, as I’m sure you are doing a great job, but did you consider that the students may have shared the exam question? I would just be a bit suspicious that EVERYONE got it right. I know it happens a lot at our college that the students sell old exam questions. A student came to my office once with like 4 old exams and was asking me to give him the answers….it was a good try I guess

]]> By: Mom http://alaninkenya.org/2008/10/30/a-good-teacher/comment-page-1#comment-225 Mom Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:56:35 +0000 http://alaninkenya.org/?p=175#comment-225 A good teacher yes! A good teacher yes!

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