The Asian touch
Nov. 14th, 2009 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyrasantaeWeek 11
Day 20
2.5 weeks left! Can you believe it?
We're still using the wheely projector and TV. Won't somebody think of the other classrooms that might actually need the projector during that period and don't have one built in!!
As I understand it, we didn't really need to watch a video for 20 minutes last week just so that it could be pointed out that males and females are under pressure from media images, which affect how boys and girls act in the classroom and how teachers feel they have to deal with them. Not to mention that this very subject was mentioned in Sociology of Gender class last year.
Our reflection essays were returned today, with the teacher's comment that she "wrote about a page of comments" on each of them.
I dug out my red pen and put on my editing hat, expecting a whole page! of comments to read through and mark up.
There was 1/3 of a page of comments on my paper, in pencil. On closer inspection, the writing had filled the full bottom half of the page at the end of my essay, with a different grade, but then most of it was erased and written over. I'm suspecting it's a transcription error from maybe copying down comments written on a computer.
The comments weren't really very interesting; but the one that I had expected about my essay not being terribly organized (I was going for a storytelling style and had to cut it short, quite abruptly, because of the page limit), I must note, said that my essay was "unfocused" as "compared with[sic] other students." That's a very Asian way to put it. (I even said that Asian parents like to compare people/kids to their peers in my presentation!! Which is true!!!)
Day 20
2.5 weeks left! Can you believe it?
We're still using the wheely projector and TV. Won't somebody think of the other classrooms that might actually need the projector during that period and don't have one built in!!
As I understand it, we didn't really need to watch a video for 20 minutes last week just so that it could be pointed out that males and females are under pressure from media images, which affect how boys and girls act in the classroom and how teachers feel they have to deal with them. Not to mention that this very subject was mentioned in Sociology of Gender class last year.
Our reflection essays were returned today, with the teacher's comment that she "wrote about a page of comments" on each of them.
I dug out my red pen and put on my editing hat, expecting a whole page! of comments to read through and mark up.
There was 1/3 of a page of comments on my paper, in pencil. On closer inspection, the writing had filled the full bottom half of the page at the end of my essay, with a different grade, but then most of it was erased and written over. I'm suspecting it's a transcription error from maybe copying down comments written on a computer.
The comments weren't really very interesting; but the one that I had expected about my essay not being terribly organized (I was going for a storytelling style and had to cut it short, quite abruptly, because of the page limit), I must note, said that my essay was "unfocused" as "compared with[sic] other students." That's a very Asian way to put it. (I even said that Asian parents like to compare people/kids to their peers in my presentation!! Which is true!!!)
