Since my job is to teach only for four days, on Thursday I completed my first week of teaching. Now I know all of them very well, and, they know me very well too! They were not at all in the mood of learning today and as I had promised them at the beginning of the course, they asked me promptly if they had a chapter test today to which I said YES.
Exams make students shake. No matter what level students are and no matter what level they will eventually perform, exams make them shake.
I had already prepared, copied and made the exams ready and handed out to them after 1 hour of light practice in the class. No new teaching today, I feel everyone is pretty good now in exponents.
They were cool in the exam, Kim was good too. Exams always brings out the level of maturity these kids have. I know its absurd to talk about maturity and kids in the same sentence, but that is what I mean exactly. Irrespective of the amount of preparation and/or the knowledge, kids approach exams differently.
Some are good, but go ahead very fast, and make silly mistakes though they were never pushed against the wall for time. Some forget what they know. Some follow exactly what they are taught and perform very well to their limit. I appreciate two kids - Lissette and Heather, for following every word of what I taught including the techniques to conquer multiple choice exams (thanks to Rahalkar Sir) . And then there are some, who under/over perform due to exam stress. I will like them to be stable and for that I will have teach them a little maturity.
In all, they did well, Cindy and Jose doing well but this is only exam 1, so they might just be better graspers.
I feel, along with math, I have to work on their minds, and I guess every good teacher that I have had till date, did exactly that.
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