Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Are you all illiterate?
The only reason I go onto msn nowadays is to contact my EDUC friends for help on questions/essays etc. My msn status is set to busy/away for a reason!
I'm busy writing up my essay, switching from screen to journals to books and back to the screen again to type up my references and bam. Some random comes along and throws me off my groove.
Can you not read? Like seriously people. Do you want me to blow up like the last time?
Finished the stupid Math assignment already, our lecturer better give us a good mark this time for screwing up the marking on the previous one. Like geez woman. You've spent 2 years at UQ and you don't even know the marking system? She failed almost half the freaking class according to the uni standards. Gawd.
And now I'm trying to cram as much as I can into my brain by tomorrow's exam. I've got the exam questions already, I just need to research up on it from my textbook and lecture notes. That stupid Math assignment didn't help, what with the due date and all. And I just came down with the flu I caught from Karin which kept me in bed yesterday and this morning... Thus being unable to go to uni which was good anyway because classes got cancelled as the lecturer caught conjunctivitis.
Whoever knew studying to be a teacher would be so hard?
And when I say teacher, I mean a proper teacher.
Like seriously, I don't get the point of relief teachers.
My coursemates and I were talking about it the other day..
The only difference between a relief teacher and a proper teacher is the pay, and that a relief teacher has no proper training. And the education system allows this?
Remember Jonathan Choy? The relief teacher that made Stomp for mocking his students?
In our course, we learn we hold students' educations in the palm of our hand. We are expected to know how to treat students' with respect and what to do with their respect of us. Would relief teachers know what is expected of them?
Dress codes, respect for students and staff, planning lessons etc. All these are the expectations that we have to fulfill. We as teachers have a position to uphold. Our duty is to educate the students, nurture them and prepare them for their entry into society, guide them onto the right road.
If we can't do that, then who will?
I suppose no one said it was easy, but who would have thought it would be so emotionally draining?
Wish me luck.
Hell in 5 days.
Posted by chibified kitsunes at 19:20