Awards for my students...

If I had to give the classes I teach awards, these are the awards I'd give...

CLASS THAT PAYS THE MOST ATTENTION goes to 4 ARISTOTLE. Sure, there are some kids in there who make a lot of noise. Every class has its clown(s). But having taught five rowdy classes last year, three of which are still in the school this year, it's amazing to be able to teach a class in which almost every student is paying rapt attention. For once, I actually feel appreciated.

QUIETEST CLASS DURING CLASS TEST goes, again, to 4 ARISTOTLE. It was simply amazing. I gave my usual threats of destroying papers of anyone who cheats or lets someone cheat off their papers, and that I will write TALKED DURING CLASS TEST in marker ink all over their test papers if they did. Almost none did though. And when they asked me a question about the test paper, it was merely to clarify something they didn't really understand in the question. Unlike the following award, which is the...

NOISEST CLASS DURING CLASS TEST which goes to 5 DICKENS. This does not only pertain to talking (or attempting to talk) during the class test. They actually ask me questions like, "Teacher, is this the right answer?" "Teacher, is my working correct?" "Teacher, what's the answer?" Not one minute during the entire class test goes by without someone raising their hands to ask some kind of question. And they ask why I look so angry whenever I'm in the class!

Seeing that the other two classes might feel left out, here are some awards I have concocted for them:

CLASS THAT MAKES THE MOST NOISE IN THE LABORATORY goes, hands down, to 5 ARISTOTLE. Somehow, they seem to think that the laboratory is the place for them to talk in amplitudes way above their usual. It makes me almost want to never take them to the lab ever again.

CLASS THAT PARTICIPATES MOST IN THE LABORATORY would have to go to 5 MOZART. I suppose that this is mainly because there are only 11 students in that class who take the subject, as opposed to 15 in 5 Dickens, 27 in 5 Aristotle and 28 (now 26) in 4 Aristotle. But like I wrote in Student Lounge, this is my guinea-pig class among the Secondary 5 classes, and they're the most willing to try any experiment even though it might turn out to be a failure.


What about the other classes, you ask? .... What other classes? I only teach four! I did say "If I had to give the classes I teach awards, these are the awards I'd give..."

If you're looking for medals or a trophy though, dream on.