Right. Pile of wannk. And yours is a private elementary where the expectations should be higher. It's just seen to be doing the bare minimum, which is double shit, chips and peas. I met with my old middle school co-teacher friend a couple of weeks ago and he said he'd set some work for the students to give in when they came back. 'Are you gonna check and give them back?' 'What, no, too much work'! And, I know he's a really good teacher in class, but that kind of attitude seems to be very apparent this year. Put the ball in the student's court with the EBS ready-made videos and if they don't watch them then they fall behind. I can't quite wrap my head around that. To me every class is important. You don't get feedback, then the students may as well just watch a film for 50 minutes because they don't need to display that anything has been understood or learnt. All the teachers at my school seem to look younger, go home at 4:30 every day, have 1 or 2 hour coffee breaks for chitchat. Not something to be celebrating the teachers this year.
I'm at one of my elementary schools today. It's teacher's day and there are not students here as well.So... a bunch of us stuck on the second floor are buying ourselves chicken and pizza, and we're gonna play uno all afternoon, apparently. Looking forward to it!I brought a tin of pineapple to put on the pizza, just to show my appreciation!
yes, exactly. however, i will say the kids clearly don't give a shit about this, either. i mean, one of my co-workers said he realised have his class were playing minecraft together during his live class. one of my classes collectively decided their webcams suddenly didn't work. oh, and their mics. i was basically talking to myself for the whole class. so i do feel it's a waste of time too, for the most part - especially as i put so much work into making these videos, and half the class doesn't even bother to watch them...it's quite clear that online teaching will never replace real teaching, despite what fruitloops might say!
I brought a tin of pineapple to put on the pizza, just to show my appreciation!
My co-teacher showed me something on her EBS admin site as a home room teacher, which shows that she can see which students are 'cheating' and she dreads looking at it, and to see who is doing it. When a student watches a video, there is a marker for their 'participation', so if there are 5 English classes in a week then she can check that there is a 5/5 participation for that week from that student. But some students turn on and log in with their computer, and a laptop and on their phone and watch three different classes. So they're essentially attending three classes. The system call tell these multiple log ins and 'attendances'. LOL!
this doesn't sound like safe, social distancing to me. police!!!!
Is that why you're posting this in the 'Venting section'. Are you going to open the tin first? Will you strain the juice off before putting the pineapple on? Will you just throw the tin out of the window? By 2pm, will you be unbuckling your belt one notch? Has your eating schedule for the whole day gone?
Man, I check attendance/participation based on who fills out the Google Form I do with every lesson (usually just multiple choice questions), and it's entirely possible to fill it out randomly and quickly, and STILL participation rates are falling. You don't need to sign up for anything, you technically don't even need to watch the video, you just need to click the link and choose a couple answers.
Might just eat less dinner?
it's quite clear that online teaching will never replace real teaching, despite what fruitloops might say!
Sssshhhhhhh! You'll summon him! Do you want a five page essay response rehashing the same three things he's been saying for a month now?
Every thread is unreadable now anyway. You have to trawl through pages and pages of endless Peepshow quotes/pics and back and forth pun exchanges between the same few people. It's a mess.
Mods!!! .Ronnie misspelled Pancake and you as well! How would one even go about cooking 1 single 'cook' in multiple pannen? One can't, now pan they? Hence, the cooking of a single cookie in a pan. panna kookasee also : Hoe Cake
And rant of the day: I really hate VxSafe, and I really really really hate Fasoo. I unplugged my workplace computer from the net, ripped out every trace of the darned thing, and sterilized it from the registry. Reboot the computer... and it's baaaack! Oh, and it decided to break the rest of the dumb DRM programmes so that not only can I not load stuff onto a USB, but now I can't have any programme open for more than 5 seconds before it complains about admin privileges and closed them right down. Luckily the IT guy is in today, so we had him sit and take a look. He commented that it looked totally messed up (I sat there practicing my look) and spent about half an hour cursing at it. He finally just uninstalled it and didn't put it back in. So that's a win, I guess, although looking innocent for that long was pretty painful. It's gone, but I still hate it.
