Oral testing children
Today I tested my M7-61 class of 18 students. To give you an idea of what this means, these are my children who are learning about family members, different rooms in a house, what actions one performs in these rooms and what furniture belongs where. They're also learning body parts and the sentence pattern - His wrist hurts. - Her shoulders hurt. - etc..
I decided to review the more difficult vocab and sentence patterns for about 30mins of the 2 hour "show", then I took them outside one by one for the following hour and a half and asked them the ten questions. When I teach these 18 masses of out-of-control energy, they are catagorised into the fantastic, fine, or really need help departments of my mental files. The students who are well behaved and quick to answer (correctly) are of-course fan-blooming-tastic. Those who misbehave and don't know how to spell elbow or answer a What is it? question without a huge pause quickly fall into the need help file. This file also often overflows...
But today when I tested my little angels, only two students in my overflown file actually belonged there! I was merrily surprised, and one student Tim a little round fellow with spectacles and spikey hair - think - "Jerry, do you know the human head weighs eight pounds?" (or is it thirteen?) - anyway, Tim skipped into the testing room, answered my first question "I feel HAPPYYYY!" with overjoyed delight and a giggle, then proceeded to answer each question with perfect timing and a broad grin.
When he'd answered all the questions, I said "FANTASTIC! OK, can you tell Peter to come in?"
Tim sings "OK!" and skips back out.
Then 15 seconds later he skips back in and asks "It's Peter?"
How could I not fall in love with these children??! I even want to rig the test scores so the weaker ones get 100 too.
I decided to review the more difficult vocab and sentence patterns for about 30mins of the 2 hour "show", then I took them outside one by one for the following hour and a half and asked them the ten questions. When I teach these 18 masses of out-of-control energy, they are catagorised into the fantastic, fine, or really need help departments of my mental files. The students who are well behaved and quick to answer (correctly) are of-course fan-blooming-tastic. Those who misbehave and don't know how to spell elbow or answer a What is it? question without a huge pause quickly fall into the need help file. This file also often overflows...
But today when I tested my little angels, only two students in my overflown file actually belonged there! I was merrily surprised, and one student Tim a little round fellow with spectacles and spikey hair - think - "Jerry, do you know the human head weighs eight pounds?" (or is it thirteen?) - anyway, Tim skipped into the testing room, answered my first question "I feel HAPPYYYY!" with overjoyed delight and a giggle, then proceeded to answer each question with perfect timing and a broad grin.
When he'd answered all the questions, I said "FANTASTIC! OK, can you tell Peter to come in?"
Tim sings "OK!" and skips back out.
Then 15 seconds later he skips back in and asks "It's Peter?"
How could I not fall in love with these children??! I even want to rig the test scores so the weaker ones get 100 too.
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And you said you never want kids ;)
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