21 oct 2009

I will make an easy exam

Did he just say it to stimulate us, or really it will be simple?
Well, this phrase and others like "Most people approve", "I'll try to pass everyone" or "If you have studied, you can pass" is what you can hear from a teacher. No doubt that this teacher can be considered polite, and sometimes can be a beloved teacher for his sense of humor or his way of teaching. But why he can do an easy test and another teacher can't?
I know that is not the same History than English, Chemistry than Philosophy, Mathematics than Gymnastics, etc. While one can appreciate that you've memorized some formulations and how you play with them until you find the true combination, otherwise appreciates how you can memorize dates and names and then write them exactly in the precise order.
Yes, I know that everyone says that if you study enough, you can learn, which may be the most important thing at these moments. But the important thing (I think) is to get a good number, a good mark. Bone, why not all teachers "can make an easy test? In all subjects we should study before the test and then fill it. What X teacher can makes that, and Y teacher can't?
Yes, some subjects tend to "weigh" more than others, but there are forms to simplificate them anyway... Why the teacher can't say wich formulation or names will appear in the exam? (If it will be more important, or more difficult).
Well, saying this I have only given my opinion, nothing more. I will not criticize or value any teacher, as perhaps some of them share my view. And yes, I know that they do what their superiors send their. See you soon =D

11 oct 2009

Tests

Are really necessary or are only an invention to save work to the teacher?
Well, in my opinion it serves only to save time for the teacher.
It is assumed that students acquire knowledge throughout the course in X subject.
The purpose of this learning has to be necessarily a paper with questions that test the ability to remember (just remember not to know) from the student?
If one assumes that the student has been able to select the subjects that he wanted, the subjects who showed more interest or curiosity, and in the course he could learn something (which is retained in memory, something that really matters to him, something that he think that are better than other things), why the teacher would have to prove the students (what they called "knowledge"), if the student has already learned something, and he really knows that from the beginning of the course until X time their knowledge has increased?
I think that teachers must do tests to get a picture of the knowledge of the student. A photograph, not a video. The video would be the progress of the student, not by a test with the pressure that often leads. I know that finding an alternative method can be difficult, but it could exist. One method could be a nice teacher-student conversation, a conversation where the teacher will ask the questions and help the student. The teachers couldn't give the answer, but they will refresh the student's memory.
Perhaps it is not real for lack of time (most secure), and for this, or for laziness of the teacher, some students may suspend a subject because an educator says that he "does not rise to sufficient" when the student could fail for the pressure or simply, for a lapsus or "bad memory". His bad memory could not remember what the teacher asks (in history exams, for example), or what the teacher think that is "most important" or simply, what the teacher considered that is "more difficult" and therefore more important .
Furthermore, this type of examinations have (how not) traps, the typical "mini answer sheet". And how the teacher can approve a student who did not acquire any knowledge, a student who didn't do what these tests require, remember?
Yes, the teacher only has to got an answer sheet and correct the students test. They only has to put a number, a number that will say "how much things had learnt the student", or, how I say, "How much things had to remind the student for the X day".
Well, maybe some things can not change, until then, we have to resign a little. =D

4 oct 2009

Introduction of myself

Well, this is and will be my blog. I have to make this blog for order of the teacher, but I like the idea and I will try to do it well.
I have choiced this title because I like complements, the black colour, tinted hair etc. And also because I want one black tie, I like them! Apart from the ties, I like dark bracelets and scarves, dark clothing, eye shadow etc..
Maybe a guy with eye shadow can be something "strange" as an adult but I can not find a reason to don't wear it. I think they should abandon that sexist thinking and stop seeing pink for girls and blue for boys.
Apart from this, I hate some boys, those that think that they are the strongest, the smartest, the most beautiful... in front of girls and demostrate this mistreating other people considered "inferior". The worst of it is that some girls like that, and they do it more and worse. Always there is someone with more actived hormones than other, and he/she has to prove it.
Well, I very like psychology (I have read many books this summer) and I like to learn and talk about it (now I can't read more, because I have to read another books, the school books, if I not have to read, I probably continue reading psychology).