Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

What I didn’t talk about in the student accessible version is that sometimes the Integrated School teachers are hypocritical in that they would complain to their principal about what they’ve witnessed the college students doing (minor violations really, such as profanity, public display of intimacy or dress code infractions, nothing major like bullying or vandalism).

Then they expect the principal to talk to our dean, and that we would monitor our students more.

Does it really have to cross the line like in the case of violence against another person before the acknowledged authority figures in the school do something?

Does there have to be a ceremony where grade school and high school teachers are deputized to report discipline violations before they believe they could act?

We are, after all, one community, and it doesn’t have to be written down that the college students should act as role models for their younger brethren, so anything that the older students are doing that the IS teachers are not allowing their students should also not be demonstrated in front of such impressionable youngsters so as not to be replicated in respectable company.

@@ There are two schools of thought in guiding students to the right way of analyzing problems.

There’s spoon-feeding, where if a student shows a teacher a potential solution to a problem the teacher indicates immediately which part is wrong to be corrected.

There’s the “answer a question with a question” approach, where the teacher instead of declaring upfront that something is incorrect, asks “Does this seem right to you?” or “Does this follow the principle I taught in class earlier?”

But in both methods, the teacher will check a student’s work thoroughly before accepting it, and therefore a student whose work has passed muster can therefore be asked by his classmates, or voluntarily tell, the correct solution he came up with.

So somewhere along the process, even for freshmen or for a new topic the students are not familiar with, a teacher has to stop revising the students’ work and just let them learn from their mistakes after it has been graded. Of course, this assumes that the teacher does return the checked papers early enough for the students to know their errors.

Session 2263 would prefer questions of incomprehension from students during the lecture. Class dismissed.