The other day, I was in class with my partners checking homework of learners while the learners were busy playing game on mobile phones - the same racing game.
So, I was checking this homework of one of the students. The handwriting on the homework made me skeptical whether the homework was done by the learner himself or someone else did that for him. This occurred to me for 2 reasons : 1) The writing was very good. 2) Just a week before that, one other student had copied his homework. How did I come to know that he had copied his homework ? That's an interesting short story: Actually he himself was single and his friend (the one from whom he copied) was married. The homework was to fill in the blanks information about one's family. What he had done is that under wife's name, he had written the name of his friend's wife. It was funny and cute anyway. So, this time being doubtful was obvious.
So where were we ? :s
Yeah. We were talking about me being suspicious about the homework. I'm so much of a stalker as you all might know. But this very time, I was wrong in what I thought. For the first time my vibes were wrong. I thought that the handwriting was someone elses'. So without letting the learner (Whose homework was done in a really good handwriting) know that I'm skeptical, I made him to write on the white board somehow. Turned out that it was his own writing. It made me really feel bad since I suspected, but I cannot tell how happy I was to see how good his writing was. So at the end of the class, when he was going back to work,he was with his friend (who is my student too and is the most harworking student amongst all) , so I told him that "Khelanand, your handwriting is really really good." I did this for two reasons : 1) It was really good :p 2) I wanted his friend, Laxmi , to take Khelanand's handwriting as a reference and improve his own handwriting.
Besides, Laxmi told me that Khelanand knows "Hisaab" ("Calculations etc") in Nepali and has done "BA" (I'm not sure about the BA- Bachelor of Arts- part though).
The next class, when I was checking homework, I saw Laxmi's handwriting to have been improved incredibly. I could not have been happier. (It was way way better than my partner's writing - my partner said it himself :p - Sorry Qasim, I had to disclose this :p)
Besides, Khelanand is doing great too. Infact, all the learners are doing really well.
Few of the learners now try to go further and do homework that we even haven't assigned them as yet.All in all, I just want to say that appreciation is really important, since it triggers learners to learn more and impress the teachers. I have learnt that from my teachers and being a mini-teacher, I have realised how important it is; it motivates the learners to learn more. It shows them that "We care about what we are doing".
Good Luck.
So, I was checking this homework of one of the students. The handwriting on the homework made me skeptical whether the homework was done by the learner himself or someone else did that for him. This occurred to me for 2 reasons : 1) The writing was very good. 2) Just a week before that, one other student had copied his homework. How did I come to know that he had copied his homework ? That's an interesting short story: Actually he himself was single and his friend (the one from whom he copied) was married. The homework was to fill in the blanks information about one's family. What he had done is that under wife's name, he had written the name of his friend's wife. It was funny and cute anyway. So, this time being doubtful was obvious.
So where were we ? :s
Yeah. We were talking about me being suspicious about the homework. I'm so much of a stalker as you all might know. But this very time, I was wrong in what I thought. For the first time my vibes were wrong. I thought that the handwriting was someone elses'. So without letting the learner (Whose homework was done in a really good handwriting) know that I'm skeptical, I made him to write on the white board somehow. Turned out that it was his own writing. It made me really feel bad since I suspected, but I cannot tell how happy I was to see how good his writing was. So at the end of the class, when he was going back to work,he was with his friend (who is my student too and is the most harworking student amongst all) , so I told him that "Khelanand, your handwriting is really really good." I did this for two reasons : 1) It was really good :p 2) I wanted his friend, Laxmi , to take Khelanand's handwriting as a reference and improve his own handwriting.
Besides, Laxmi told me that Khelanand knows "Hisaab" ("Calculations etc") in Nepali and has done "BA" (I'm not sure about the BA- Bachelor of Arts- part though).
The next class, when I was checking homework, I saw Laxmi's handwriting to have been improved incredibly. I could not have been happier. (It was way way better than my partner's writing - my partner said it himself :p - Sorry Qasim, I had to disclose this :p)
Besides, Khelanand is doing great too. Infact, all the learners are doing really well.
Few of the learners now try to go further and do homework that we even haven't assigned them as yet.All in all, I just want to say that appreciation is really important, since it triggers learners to learn more and impress the teachers. I have learnt that from my teachers and being a mini-teacher, I have realised how important it is; it motivates the learners to learn more. It shows them that "We care about what we are doing".
Good Luck.
