the weekend is here!

YEA~ baby. Tomorrow's public holiday plus some days off gives me a 6-day weekend! Now.. how am I going to spend it??? Give me some ideas!

Yesterday I was surfing around and I found this novel (to me) way of teaching kids how to write essays. It's so amazingly simple I wonder I've never been taught this way in school!

Teachers have broken down in my class so many times (we weren't even the worst around), we got tired of acting sorry and quiet, and getting our class rep to run after the teacher. A recurrent jeremiad is the whopping stack of homework they have to assess. I'm guessing that this gives them more homework, depriving them of their life. When they erase the line between work and rest, the joys and pains of teaching becomes a blur and what might have once been sufficiently enjoyable becomes a daily torture after the first period with the nasty class.

SO. I'm suggesting, for the primary to pre-U level, that they farm out the work which don't really need the teacher to do personally to a programme, leaving them more time for work that don't evoke binary answers. If a computer does it, the teacher can see the mistakes and strengths of the class in a chart, and can have access to each individual students performance according to topics. Which is basically what teachers do when they assess the homework personally, right?

Assuming that kids don't stop receiving essay assignments and suddenly find that all their homework are MCQs, this might actually shear off the lethal tumour which was once the educators's time. And the workplace suddenly becomes a garden burgeoning with creativity and a deeper insight into the mind and the desire to learn, which for some of us was being murdered slowly and stealthily since the day we had to ace all our exams.