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Showing posts with label Easter Sunday 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter Sunday 2009. Show all posts

Sunday, April 12, 2009

NEED'S ANALYSIS

There's comes a time, a testing time , a struggling time a time when everything goes against your will with no fault of yours. Your good intentions are interpreted as bad and you are left wondering. Sometimes we become so helpless!!!
Well, that's what my present situation is like in the famous 'M' block. Every minute is a struggle for both of us;my student’s sole aim is to disrupt and not have any learning take place and mine to keep them 'on task' under every struggle. At the beginning it was fun to see how you could beat all their tricks but then it's become a tedious, unwelcome job because I'm a teacher by profession, not a police woman!
Actually, I think I'm considered worse ...which is terrible.
I wonder why these young lads are so demotivated when there's just a month for the academic year to wind up.
Is it because things are getting too monotonous?
Or is it because this whole cycle has been one long stretch with no break of any sort?
Or is it because we've had no activities, no funand learning ?
I wish I had an answer but to be honest my situation has been worse. I've been like leaf blown by a strong wind with destination unknown. I've been on the move, here, there and every where, discovering every nook and corner of my workplace. It's good in a way, in future or in case of emergency I won't get lost. While cycle 2 was a ‘breeze’, cycle 3 is no doubt a 'tornado' of the worst kind ever.
At times I wonder if I'm in the right place, there's total distortion and my attempt at bringing about any kind of order is a vain attempt simply because it’s too late.
So at this critical moment I'm doing a serios' NEED'S ANALYSIS' and it's difficult. A successful teacher is one who moulds a character it is said and my attempt is just that. Knowledge from books can be passed on, that's not a challenge but how do I teach these lads to be gentlemen? How do I mould them? How do I win their favor? How do I change their perspective of things? How do I make them love school and school work? How do I teach them to walk and talk, sit and stand?
Well, I'm still analyzing and hoping that soon, very soon I'll find the answers to my questions.
Till then the analysis is onnnnnnnnnnnnnn.