Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Teachers....

thats what you call them in secondary and primary school or maybe even JC
In poly, we call them lecturers.

I have met 4 kinds of lecturers in NP so far:
1) the good lecturer, cares for the students (gives additional lessons before common test,etc) and teaches well (pays attention during classes).
2) the average lecturer, almost the same as the good one but only thing is that he/she doesnt teach as well (pays attention in class sometimes).
3)The old lecturer, no interaction, reads directly from the transparency/notes, may care for the students (pays no attention whatso ever).
4)The arrogant lecturer, in his own world, speaks rubbish , wastes time on irrelavent stuff and thinks highly of himself.

Speaking of which, I just met the 4th type of lecturer today. Disguised as a 1hr tutorial , the arrogant lecturer started off today by reminding us that there was a compulsory training session for our NAFPA. That itself took 15mins. Then he finally starts on the first question.
"Ok you know how to the question right? Go write it on the board", he says .
He then continues rambling on for the next 10mins. Suddenly he mentions, " Have you done your SET (student evaluation whatever)?". "Come let me give you a model answer."For those who doesnt know what SET does, its an evaluation form where the student evaulates the teacher/ lecturer.
And the next thing he showed us was a few slides from his model answer (or at least what he hopes to see). On the model answers he showed us, there was not even a single trace of negative comments. 100% postive. He keep pushing us to do the SET and fill it up with flowery words. 40 mins of the lesson was already gone just like that. He asked us to do 2 more questions on the board and the lesson was done.

End of part 1? maybe......

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