Headache endured!
I've finally posted the grades for the Marketing tutorial activity. I'm expecting some indignant students to hunt me down next week for giving them such low grades for their first Marketing assignment. Well, the only unknown fact is that the marks should have been much lower than what I've finally decided to give out of compassion I reckon.
Some wrote in perfect English copied straight out from the Internet or their reading materials while some had "plagiarised legally". Well, a new term perhaps, "legal plagiarism" refers to doing referencing for every bit that was written in the report and thus, leaves no room for even a tiny bit of originality. Sighhh...... what a headache!! To PASS .....or the ultimate FAIL.
Who's to blame? Hmm....It is undeniable that education is getting more and more commercialised today. It does not matter whether or not the students meet the basic entry requirement to pursue their tertiary education as long as their guardians/parents can afford to pay for the tuition fees. This is such an ugly sight to behold but unfortunately, it is "REAL". So real that it is reflected in the attitudes of the students; their poorly done assignments or plagiarised work from their seniors for fear of not being able to meet the passing grades.
Most of my colleagues and I didn't have our one week so-called "break". While the students were busy rushing for their assignments, we were either busy marking their exam papers or their atrocious assignments and scratching our heads wondering what went wrong. Did we really teach so badly that the students couldn't comprehend the lectures at all or was it mere laziness on their part for submitting slip shod assignments?
Of course I remember very vividly that I was once a student and had to toil day and night just to complete the neverending assignments. But, I'm glad to say that I've been through it myself and truly missed the good old times in college/university; experienced the "so-stressed out" period as a student and the worst that you could ever imagine for a student i.e being a failure was the turning point in my life....... Yeap, been through it, seen it all and I'm still surviving :) Praise God!
As a student who had failed in the eyes of the society, I thought I would never be able to stand up again because I've lost all hope and brought shame to my family. Nothing else remained in me except the faith that I had in GOD. Indeed, it was all that I've ever needed in my life. I was humbled, so humbled that I started all over again and what can I say, but life is good!!
Well, I thank God for my experiences in life because I believe GOD wants me to encourage and share it with those who are going through the rough patches in their lives especially the students. I do not teach in a big varsity as much as I would love too, but Metropolitan is indeed a great place to start off. Thank God for my wonderful colleagues and friends; Ms Choo, Juliana, Yeng May, Mrs Chan, Mr. Prabah, Mr. Rama etc just to name a few :) Life would be so dull without them!
"May we never lose sight and hope of our passion to teach no matter how difficult the students/situations may be"
Some wrote in perfect English copied straight out from the Internet or their reading materials while some had "plagiarised legally". Well, a new term perhaps, "legal plagiarism" refers to doing referencing for every bit that was written in the report and thus, leaves no room for even a tiny bit of originality. Sighhh...... what a headache!! To PASS .....or the ultimate FAIL.
Who's to blame? Hmm....It is undeniable that education is getting more and more commercialised today. It does not matter whether or not the students meet the basic entry requirement to pursue their tertiary education as long as their guardians/parents can afford to pay for the tuition fees. This is such an ugly sight to behold but unfortunately, it is "REAL". So real that it is reflected in the attitudes of the students; their poorly done assignments or plagiarised work from their seniors for fear of not being able to meet the passing grades.
Most of my colleagues and I didn't have our one week so-called "break". While the students were busy rushing for their assignments, we were either busy marking their exam papers or their atrocious assignments and scratching our heads wondering what went wrong. Did we really teach so badly that the students couldn't comprehend the lectures at all or was it mere laziness on their part for submitting slip shod assignments?
Of course I remember very vividly that I was once a student and had to toil day and night just to complete the neverending assignments. But, I'm glad to say that I've been through it myself and truly missed the good old times in college/university; experienced the "so-stressed out" period as a student and the worst that you could ever imagine for a student i.e being a failure was the turning point in my life....... Yeap, been through it, seen it all and I'm still surviving :) Praise God!
As a student who had failed in the eyes of the society, I thought I would never be able to stand up again because I've lost all hope and brought shame to my family. Nothing else remained in me except the faith that I had in GOD. Indeed, it was all that I've ever needed in my life. I was humbled, so humbled that I started all over again and what can I say, but life is good!!
Well, I thank God for my experiences in life because I believe GOD wants me to encourage and share it with those who are going through the rough patches in their lives especially the students. I do not teach in a big varsity as much as I would love too, but Metropolitan is indeed a great place to start off. Thank God for my wonderful colleagues and friends; Ms Choo, Juliana, Yeng May, Mrs Chan, Mr. Prabah, Mr. Rama etc just to name a few :) Life would be so dull without them!
"May we never lose sight and hope of our passion to teach no matter how difficult the students/situations may be"
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