Monday, December 3, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
Could you be a good teacher?
Could you be a good teacher?
Headteachers feel that a fifth of the appointments they made over the summer were unsatisfactory, according to a poll published today. So as a debate rages on the quality of teachers, find out how good you would be as a chalk-wielder in this New Labour age.
1. You are muddling along in a different career but are suddenly aflame with the desire to become a teacher. Who are you most like?
a. One of the many accused by the government of taking the £6,000 grant new teachers receive, doing the training and then chucking it in.
b. You like everything to be very neatly worked out and consider the rigidity of the curriculum to be an anchor in the choppy waters of education.
c. Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society. "Open your minds gentleman - poetry, literature, beauty, this is what we stay alive for." And you liked the advert for teachers where a flying machine goes across a beach.
2. You are at a parents' night and little Johnny has not been doing so well in any lessons which require thinking. He's very good, though, at thumping his mate. What do you tell his parents?
a. Your highly attuned emotional antenna has detected that he is unhappy and bored, hence his unruly behaviour. You dazzle his parents with a rousing homage of how impressive the inner Johnny is, adding that you have a hunch he might be a pottery prodigy.
b. You can scarcely recall who he - like any of your pupils ("rats", you call them) - is so you trot out the same meaningless platitudes and teacherspeak which you float past every parent
c. That there has been a recent New Labour initiative which focuses on what they can do at home to improve his education, and would they like a handout?
3. Samantha, who reminds you of the girl bully from your Grange Hill watching days, is doing that thing where she hums while looking all angel faced. You challenge her to stop, and she actually kicks you in the shin. What's your move?
a. Limp back to your desk and later burn her coursework.
b. Try and defuse the situation and refer it to the head's office, just as the protocol insists.
c. Take her outside and give her such an emotional talking to that she bursts out crying and says she only wants to be good really.
4. You are about to take your lesson, closely determined by the curriculum, but for some unexplained reason Ralph (one of your weirder pupils) has brought in his pet rabbit. What do you do?
a. Have him take it home. There is a syllabus to be worked through here. What was he thinking?
b. Call the police.
c. Close the door, and secretly give a spontaneous lesson about rabbits and pets. The class gazes at you in awe when you tell them that people's friends should be like hedgehogs, which stay close enough to each other to keep warm and far apart enough so as not to cause pain.
5. The thing that attracts you most to teaching is ... ?
a. The paperwork.
b. The holidays, and you're still a big kid yourself.
c. Shaping dreams.
6. It's the last week before term starts. What do you do?
a. Well, you've already got your lesson plans sorted, but you redo them to try to maximise the quality of your handouts.
b. You're taking the students from your after-school astronomy club to watch a shuttle launch in Florida.
c. You spend it taking drugs in Ibiza. It helps you to better understand the kidz.
Headteachers feel that a fifth of the appointments they made over the summer were unsatisfactory, according to a poll published today. So as a debate rages on the quality of teachers, find out how good you would be as a chalk-wielder in this New Labour age.
1. You are muddling along in a different career but are suddenly aflame with the desire to become a teacher. Who are you most like?
a. One of the many accused by the government of taking the £6,000 grant new teachers receive, doing the training and then chucking it in.
b. You like everything to be very neatly worked out and consider the rigidity of the curriculum to be an anchor in the choppy waters of education.
c. Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society. "Open your minds gentleman - poetry, literature, beauty, this is what we stay alive for." And you liked the advert for teachers where a flying machine goes across a beach.
2. You are at a parents' night and little Johnny has not been doing so well in any lessons which require thinking. He's very good, though, at thumping his mate. What do you tell his parents?
a. Your highly attuned emotional antenna has detected that he is unhappy and bored, hence his unruly behaviour. You dazzle his parents with a rousing homage of how impressive the inner Johnny is, adding that you have a hunch he might be a pottery prodigy.
b. You can scarcely recall who he - like any of your pupils ("rats", you call them) - is so you trot out the same meaningless platitudes and teacherspeak which you float past every parent
c. That there has been a recent New Labour initiative which focuses on what they can do at home to improve his education, and would they like a handout?
3. Samantha, who reminds you of the girl bully from your Grange Hill watching days, is doing that thing where she hums while looking all angel faced. You challenge her to stop, and she actually kicks you in the shin. What's your move?
a. Limp back to your desk and later burn her coursework.
b. Try and defuse the situation and refer it to the head's office, just as the protocol insists.
c. Take her outside and give her such an emotional talking to that she bursts out crying and says she only wants to be good really.
4. You are about to take your lesson, closely determined by the curriculum, but for some unexplained reason Ralph (one of your weirder pupils) has brought in his pet rabbit. What do you do?
a. Have him take it home. There is a syllabus to be worked through here. What was he thinking?
b. Call the police.
c. Close the door, and secretly give a spontaneous lesson about rabbits and pets. The class gazes at you in awe when you tell them that people's friends should be like hedgehogs, which stay close enough to each other to keep warm and far apart enough so as not to cause pain.
5. The thing that attracts you most to teaching is ... ?
a. The paperwork.
b. The holidays, and you're still a big kid yourself.
c. Shaping dreams.
6. It's the last week before term starts. What do you do?
a. Well, you've already got your lesson plans sorted, but you redo them to try to maximise the quality of your handouts.
b. You're taking the students from your after-school astronomy club to watch a shuttle launch in Florida.
c. You spend it taking drugs in Ibiza. It helps you to better understand the kidz.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Domo Downloads
The demonstration version is in two self-extracting files called stddemo.exe and teachdem.exe. To install double-click on the file names.
Let Go......
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Exercises
I would like my friends to visite to these websites for pratice your English skill.
Let Go !
cloze exercisetotal-deletion exercise
reading maze
Language Awareness Exercises
Holiday Maze
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Congratulations for your successful
Today I would like to share you about congratulations and expression words.
To this site if you want to know more.
Congratulations on a job well done. ขอแสดงความยินดีด้วย คุณทำได้ดีมาก
Great going! ทำได้เยี่ยมมาก
Way to go! ทำได้เยี่ยมมาก
Nice job! ทำได้ดีมาก
You're the man! คุณเป็นคนที่ทำได้ดีมาก
Excellent ยอดเยี่ยม
Awesome ดีเยี่ยมและน่าประทับใจ
To this site if you want to know more.
Congratulations on a job well done. ขอแสดงความยินดีด้วย คุณทำได้ดีมาก
Great going! ทำได้เยี่ยมมาก
Way to go! ทำได้เยี่ยมมาก
Nice job! ทำได้ดีมาก
You're the man! คุณเป็นคนที่ทำได้ดีมาก
Excellent ยอดเยี่ยม
Awesome ดีเยี่ยมและน่าประทับใจ
And finally congratulations for my friends (E4EN) ,who got a nice job! for the assignment.
Monday, July 9, 2007
What the Uiversiade is?
See you in Bangkok 2007Summer Universiade
The Universiade Game begin on August 8th-18th 2007 in Bangkok.
There are 11 students from Thaksin University will be joy to the Universiade Game and I am a student from 13 students who will go to that place too.
NAREE SUWANHOM
PORNWARA KONGRAKTEE
BUDSARIN BOONWAN
NAPASSLUCK CHAIRAT
SIRIRAK BOONYOM
SUPPARAWIN SOMMAI
JANYAWAN PUTTHAMANEE
RATTANAPORN JONGLUKSANAWAN
NAPAPORN KAEWNINPRASERT
KASSAMA JAISAMUT
THAMMARAT KONKAEW
We hope to see you in Bangkok. Bye bye!!!
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Monday, June 11, 2007
Be a good student...My friends
ไม่ มีคำว่าแพ้หากว่าเราได้เริ่ม
ไม่ มีคำว่าอยู่ที่เดิมหากเราได้ค้นหา
ไม่ มีคำว่าเป็นที่หนึ่งหากยังต้องพึ่งพา
ไม่มีคำว่า ดีกว่าหากว่าเราไม่ตั้งใจ
คนจะสงสัยในสิ่งที่ท่านพูด
แต่เขาจะเชื่อในสิ่งที่ท่านทำ
ชีวิตในบางครั้ง
Naree Suwanhom
ไม่ มีคำว่าอยู่ที่เดิมหากเราได้ค้นหา
ไม่ มีคำว่าเป็นที่หนึ่งหากยังต้องพึ่งพา
ไม่มีคำว่า ดีกว่าหากว่าเราไม่ตั้งใจ
คนจะสงสัยในสิ่งที่ท่านพูด
แต่เขาจะเชื่อในสิ่งที่ท่านทำ
ชีวิตในบางครั้ง
Naree Suwanhom
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