Today I was teaching in one of my form I classes. We got to the end of the period and had just
finished going over the practice problems that I had given them to work
on. So I started to gather up my things
and I was saying that class was over. “No
Madam, no,” came a resounding plea more almost everyone in the class. So I stopped and asked them why. “Exercises!” was their reply. I said we just did all of the exercises. “No Madam, more exercises” they begged (they
literally begged, one girl had her hands folded and everything). So I quickly made up some more problems and
put them on the board. After we finished
going over those problems I started to leave again. “No Madam,” they said, “homework!” (We can’t
give actual homework because the students have too many chores at home to make
any extra school work mandatory but sometimes teachers will assign work for the
students during their free periods and call it homework.) Not having more work prepared, I told them
that I would give them extra problems tomorrow.
They reluctantly agreed. I am
sure that there are a lot of similarities between teaching here and teaching in
the States but every now and then I am reminded that this is definitely not an
American classroom.
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