Wednesday, April 15, 2009

apa yang diajar

a lesson planned may fail.
and on a tuesday, there was a failed lesson.
how do we know that a lesson planned has failed? it did not reach its planned aims; the planned learning objectives were not met. thus it is heavily assumed that the students did not learn. Therefore it is concluded that the lesson had failed.

but it so happened that in this particular failed lesson, all of the kids learn something as they stepped out of the class. They learn. Its just that, they have learn something other than what has been planned for them to learn, they learn something unintended.

If that’s the case, would you really think that the failed lesson has really failed—though what most of them have learn is not to be like you, another couple of kids learn to be someone like you, one kid learn that if he want to make the fat-bullying-kid cry he can always say that he knows his big secret that he crapped his pants yesterday, and the others just learn some other things?
i mean, they do learn, right?

I come up with some over-generalized-conclusions of my own.
  • It is still a failed lesson coz it deviates from the plan.
  • It is still a failed lesson coz while it can be assumed that students learn, we cannot assess what they have learned
  • It is still a failed lesson coz even if the students learn something on their own, the knowledge may not only be not-useful for their supposedly-bright-future-if-only-they’d-listen-to-me, but also so pointless—
  • em..
  • It is not a failed lesson coz students do learn
  • It is not a failed lesson coz I thought I tried my best to teach them but they are not even teachable.i guess.
a classroom is just another corner of the world, another place for any soul, it is just simply--a place. what ever the students take from it, depends on them. But what teachers can do, and what we are now trained to do is, to equipped ourselves with as much as knowledge as we can (and a skin as thick as it can be) so that—some how, we can find some way that we can put some sense in some kids’ mind.i guess.or maybe, so that we can learn how to teach them so that they can be straight A students and then---so that..-- we can--be-like---jusasi(s) one day.