Saturday, 13 February 2016

There is one thing, though, that all of them have been honest about: Handwriting, and the horrendous illegibility of it.

I think,
That you learn the most when a tutor flashes every single student's work on the visualizer and critiques it to the point where most of us hang our heads in shame and there's a sizzling discomfort in the air.

I think,
That he doesn't have anything against any of us (Afterall, I have had first hand experience of being picked on before. This.. Isn't that. I'm pretty sure. But maybe, just maybe, it's only little me. I can't speak for all, but my sense tells me he isn't that.)
And really, harshness now is much better than honesty later.
Because he knows as well as we do, that marks matter way too much right now
And we can't afford niceties in place of brutal truth, for there isn't enough time.

I think,
That as a student you really can't take comments regarding your work personally
Or you should- Afterall, it is your work and you gotta learn from it to take away something
But worrying about what he thinks of you/the cutting remarks isn't gonna get you anywhere



Frankly speaking I was happy- truthfully so,
When he flashed mine on the screen and called it a perfect example of a badly inserted quote.
Once returned, one can see just how much thought went into it- the ticks and the question marks, the arrows and the insightful comments.

Truth be told I haven't ever received an essay marked to such an extent
Nor have I ever had my work flashed on the screen and not been praised for it (I know how this sounds but that's not what I mean. Here in my school teachers care too much about our little hearts and you just end up not knowing exactly what it is you did wrong, and what detailed flaws you have in your writing. If it ain't good it ain't shown to everyone and if it is shown its often anonymous. It just isn't a daily occurrence that every single student's work is so highly valued and thus, critiqued. And so that was refreshing. And so it is lovable- I learnt so much over the span of this month it makes me question what I've been doing in the past.)
I know that incoherence is my worst flaw, and that expression isn't my strongest point.
It is a need that I know, exactly, how terrible it actually is. And so this was really good for me- for all of us.

People say that whatever's shared within cca or the classroom should remain in there,
And I agree.
I hope this (and the other posts) isn't a breaching of that, because I haven't divulged any names or specified anything.
It's just that wonderful things are meant to be shared, just as heavy ones are
And I just really wanted to praise this tutor's surprising way of teaching.

Sidetracking a little, this is what I'd call delicious music. Mmmm!

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