Thursday, January 25, 2007

Beginning Of School: The Absence of All Things Instructive

Yes, it's come to this.  Since the only thing going on school-wide last week and this week is tryouts for the track and field competition on the 5th, I decided to start showing movies. 

Since there is no schedule, learners have not been assigned subjects nor teachers.  No teaching is possible, even if you wanted to try.  The only thing left is subject-nonspecific activities, also known as playing games and watching movies.

The schedule is a difficult thing to put together since the numbers of classes is not known until a week into school.  Then, learners have to choose what language they want to study, decide between accounting and agriculture and decided on math classes.  After all these decisions are made, subjects can be allocated to teachers and a timetable is created.  Right now we're just finishing up the student's decisions step due to a huge number of late arrivals. 

I can't wait for next week.  Maybe we'll have a schedule then.  Maybe I can start teaching... Maybe.

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