ESL Teaching and Learning Tips
A few of my English Major students have been standing in for less well spoken students in other departments pretending to be that student and doing the Oral English exam for them so they will get a pass.
I burst out laughing when I found out and later again when I took the matter to the other foreign teachers whose classes had been infiltrated and had them exclaiming, "I thought I'd seen some students more than once but when I questioned them they said I was mistaken!" The students were operating from: the classes are so big and the teachers will never remember everyone. Hahaarrr !!!
I would never have thought MY little angels were capable of it but, they are only human. What is amazing is - they feel no guilt ! In comparison, it occurred to me that we westerners are driven by rules, guilt and blaming. How freeing is must feel to be like them. My first thoughts (after laughing, of course) was to feel duped and taken advantage of.
The truth is, what they do is a matter of survival and not a personal attack on me or the other teachers. As life will have it, what goes around comes around. Who am I to judge and measure out punishment, even I have "cheated" in my school years - talk about what goes around comes around !
Still, it has to be dealt with and I'm not sure how to. All the departments that have a foreign english teacher have had the "treatment". It has fallen to me because I am director of Foreign Teachers here.
So, what I have done is called a meeting of all the class monitors of the 12 English Major classes for this evening and my thought is to put the question to them and (with my overseeing) come up with an answer. There will be no "punishment", but the word will go out that there is no advantage in doing it.
Does anyone have an other proposals? Dr Yanni?
Thanks in advance,
Rosalind
Messages In This Thread
- OH NO - NOT MY CLASS! -- Rosalind
- Discipline in the classroom -- Julio Luque
- Cheating -- Gary
- Creativity in Language Teaching -- Dr. Yanni Zack- ESL Teaching Tips and Strategies
- Cheating - morals and consequences in real life. -- Kevin
- Re: Oh No- Cheating -- Dr. Yanni Zack- ESL Teaching Tips and Strategies
- This is great. -- Rosalind
- I wish the TEFL mills would have told me about Thailand's cheating problem -- RhenoThai
- Screaming and shouting and running about ... -- Rosalind
- disruptive students -- The Joker
- disruptive students -- Z
- Re: disruptive students -- Yanni Z Zack
- Confession -- Rosalind
- Thailand's big do-do bird notion -- RhenoThai
- disruptive students -- Z
- disruptive students -- The Joker
- Cheating -- Gary
- Discipline in the classroom -- Julio Luque