Too much confidence with my students?

I always laugh at class with my students, receive non-academic messages in the account that I have only for them and now they want me to go to the beach with them. For me, if they learn in a good environment everything is ok. I see nothing wrong. However, there are other people who could see this as an excess of confidence and even as a sample of lack of respect towards them.

Do you think “teaching” has limits or some kind of border that we teachers mustn’t pass?

I have gone to the theatre with some of my teachers in a group and, then, at class they are very good teachers, and even too severe… There are now some colleges, who say, “No thanks, they are students, and they are sacred, I cannot have a beer with them because they are my students”.

Don’t you think other links could be established between teacher and student without endangering a good learning process? Sometimes teachers as these make me doubt If I’m doing right… But I know I don’t have any reason for worry, when, now that the course approaches the end that some of them are wondering what they are going to do during the summer in order not to forget all they have learnt.

Best wishes,

María

- posted by Maria @ Tuesday, May 20, 2003

 
Drafts from days before the creation of this Blog...

Hi again, here you are some lines that I wrote long time ago, while I was looking for a suitable blogger. As you'll see later on I am a person who needs to tell everything which is passing though her mind, that's why I needed to have something like this...

María


A horrible day which got me completely blush

My life has been characterized by the amount of silly mistakes that I have made in the most diverse contexts. Thus, the sentence “Maria lives is her oun world”, or “María is absent minded” is quite a normal utterance in my daily life. Since I have a place in the working life, distractions are not so common, but, they haven’t vanished completely...

My first day on correcting exams

It could be funny, or even something for which I might feel embarrassment, but have just marked all the parts of the exam, and now I have some doubts about how to get the final qualification… I have been summing, multiplying, etc…and things seem not so easy…No matter! I have one of my science nice teachers on line to ask whatever I want. After some explanations, examples, and tricks I have the solution to my problem.

A great applause for all those patient online colleges, that, day after day help me to solve any problem, please

My second day on correcting exams
21, March 3002

I have not finished yet, and I am realizing that I don’t really like it. I don’t know If I am being severe or benevolent, I don’t know if I am marking right or it there is something that I haven’t seen. I don’t know if there are people who deserve better a better qualification or a person who has got too good marks for the knowledge he or she really has… I don’t know. I think everything could be really discovered after my own years of experience, or… who knows, tomorrow when all the outcomes will be shown.

However, the sensation of doing something completely redundant and worthless of making is exam is still on my head. If I know how much all of my students know about English, since the group is so reduced… why wasting time on examine?

After the long dialogue with one of my students and my own assumptions…

Level 1 is perfectly OK, but the other, which is supossed to be 2 (pre-intermediate), it is actually a mixture of upper elementary, intermediate and higher… is really a very difficult course. I spend lots of hours for preparing material, which at the end I will not use because it will does not convince me enough. This is a huge problem for me. It is time consuming and I don’t know if my students are learning something new…

- posted by Maria @ Monday, May 19, 2003

 
Hi all,

This is my new blog. I hope everything goes well, or at least, better than before... This is just to test this works!

I would also like to devote it to Jose Luis Sanchez Navarro, the person who introduced me into the incredible world of blogging.

Kind regards,

María
- posted by Maria @ Monday, May 19, 2003