I understand where you are coming from, but that isn't actually the best practice for learning via games.Inserting a random element into the activity will better serve to keep everyone involved and engaged.For example, some play match game where each match gets a point. Best practices dictates that we should insert a random slide and trigger, then have the teams pick a character that reveals points from 1-4, a bomb, or other. This way, whether teams are high-level or not everyone has a random chance to win the game.Do you follow?
Gave a short reading comprehension test to my class today, only 12 points total. One of the students rushed through the whole thing, got 0 points. I told him he had to try again because that was unacceptable. He said ok, re-did the test, brought it back and... got 1/2 a point this time. So... progress? Everyone else passed and did well, but he just made stuff up.
Quote from: HaLo3 on October 26, 2017, 11:34:22 amGave a short reading comprehension test to my class today, only 12 points total. One of the students rushed through the whole thing, got 0 points. I told him he had to try again because that was unacceptable. He said ok, re-did the test, brought it back and... got 1/2 a point this time. So... progress? Everyone else passed and did well, but he just made stuff up.Just 23 more times before he gets that perfect score! Fighting!
My CT rigs the games so the team she likes can win.
Quote from: Pecan on October 26, 2017, 10:40:05 amQuote from: sevenpm on October 26, 2017, 10:27:42 amMy CT rigs the games so the team she likes can win. Last class, it backfired and it made that team lose even more. And then they complained and she was like "I understand" and changed the rules again so they could catch up. They still lost. Then she had the nerve to be in a bad mood about it, telling me she wanted the other team to win and that she understands why they complained. What is this? It's a game! The teams who get the answer right get the points. They answered wrong and lost (even though she was trying to make sure they won.)I said, "well that's the game!" and she said "yes but I understand them..."Well, I don't understand you, CT. You rig the game and make it unfair for other students and then you give in to the students you like because they say it's "not fair." You're a grown ass woman!What's fair is playing the game by the rules and not playing favorites.I understand where you are coming from, but that isn't actually the best practice for learning via games.Inserting a random element into the activity will better serve to keep everyone involved and engaged.For example, some play match game where each match gets a point. Best practices dictates that we should insert a random slide and trigger, then have the teams pick a character that reveals points from 1-4, a bomb, or other. This way, whether teams are high-level or not everyone has a random chance to win the game.Do you follow?Still doesn't change the fact that the CT favours one group over the other students and is rigging the game. Which is the real issue that the OP is talking about.
Quote from: sevenpm on October 26, 2017, 10:27:42 amMy CT rigs the games so the team she likes can win. Last class, it backfired and it made that team lose even more. And then they complained and she was like "I understand" and changed the rules again so they could catch up. They still lost. Then she had the nerve to be in a bad mood about it, telling me she wanted the other team to win and that she understands why they complained. What is this? It's a game! The teams who get the answer right get the points. They answered wrong and lost (even though she was trying to make sure they won.)I said, "well that's the game!" and she said "yes but I understand them..."Well, I don't understand you, CT. You rig the game and make it unfair for other students and then you give in to the students you like because they say it's "not fair." You're a grown ass woman!What's fair is playing the game by the rules and not playing favorites.I understand where you are coming from, but that isn't actually the best practice for learning via games.Inserting a random element into the activity will better serve to keep everyone involved and engaged.For example, some play match game where each match gets a point. Best practices dictates that we should insert a random slide and trigger, then have the teams pick a character that reveals points from 1-4, a bomb, or other. This way, whether teams are high-level or not everyone has a random chance to win the game.Do you follow?
My CT rigs the games so the team she likes can win. Last class, it backfired and it made that team lose even more. And then they complained and she was like "I understand" and changed the rules again so they could catch up. They still lost. Then she had the nerve to be in a bad mood about it, telling me she wanted the other team to win and that she understands why they complained. What is this? It's a game! The teams who get the answer right get the points. They answered wrong and lost (even though she was trying to make sure they won.)I said, "well that's the game!" and she said "yes but I understand them..."Well, I don't understand you, CT. You rig the game and make it unfair for other students and then you give in to the students you like because they say it's "not fair." You're a grown ass woman!What's fair is playing the game by the rules and not playing favorites.
And besides, isn't a match game already random? No one knows what's behind the squares until someone chooses them. The only "non-random" thing about match games is the team that goes earlier in the sequence is at a disadvantage. In my classes, we randomize it by using a dice roll to see who goes first.
Not a single post here in three days? Wow.
Quote from: #basedcowboyshirt on October 30, 2017, 12:46:43 pmNot a single post here in three days? Wow.To get the ball rolling again.Is it fall or early Winter? Did we just skip fall?
Quote from: Savant on October 30, 2017, 01:24:04 pmQuote from: #basedcowboyshirt on October 30, 2017, 12:46:43 pmNot a single post here in three days? Wow.To get the ball rolling again.Is it fall or early Winter? Did we just skip fall?Just a glitch.We'll have fall back tomorrow.
I used to work with several teachers like that, and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you give them a chance to say they don't like what you found, they're going to say that. Just get in the rhythm of you come to class with the lesson ready, teach it, do a good job, and then they don't have to worry about your materials, and you don't have to run it past them. Just operate under the assumption that they should never need to ask you to find materials - you'll just bring them.It's kind of hard to get into that routine if they've been approving or denying your stuff in the past, but if you start teaching with a new teacher, it's good to be just like, "Here's what we're doing, here's the files. See you tomorrow."
This kind of stuff is so funny!I'm really laughing, so I don't know why I'm putting it in the ranting thread. I guess because it's just so ridiculous to find these chapters in a foreign language book. I wonder what they learn in their actual Korean lessons."Wow! Koreans are very smart."Now I know why the Koreans I meet act like unpaid government tour and culture guides, even after I tell them I've been living here for several years. They are taught that this is how your conversations with foreigners are supposed to go. And why they act so disappointed when I don't gush over what they think I should gush over. I didn't follow the script
It's always a privilege to witness my CT in action when it comes to discipline and the effectiveness of Korean teacher training. She teaches one class by herself and I sit in the next room. If you've ever visited Earth, you might've heard the noise her class makes. In an effort to combat this ear splitting raucous, she's turned to technology by plugging in the microphone and attempting to scream the lesson over the student's noise.Not entirely dense, it took her 3 months to realize that this ultimately doubles the noise. So she's adopted the strategy of teaching the students to police each other by permitting them to shout the words "Be Quiet" at any noise violators. Now, we've got an English lesson of my CT shouting awkward Key Expressions through a speaker while 30 students are all attempting to scream "Be Quiet!" at their friends.
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