On Monday I gave all my students quizzes to see what they know. They have exams in all their classes next week, and I only have one more class to review before their English exam. As it turns out, they don´t know a lot. It took me a long time to figure out that I had to actually teach them, not just present material and expect them to study at home (like a theoretical college student). One of my classes is typically out of control, talking and walking around and stuff. And most of the students in all three of my classes are fervent cheaters. It is for these reasons, I think, that my students have learned little more than what they knew when I started, and apparently don´t even know things they supposedly learned before I started. And, well, I guess English is hard.
Now I am stuck with this question: Should I make the test too hard for almost all of them, but representative of what they could know, or should I make it easy enough for most of them? I think I am going to give a tough test. Well, a bit easier than the quiz I gave them. Some of the students actually do know the material, and the others can struggle. The school can apply a curve later. This might sound harsh, but whoever the next teacher is can then have an accurate picture of what I have been teaching them and what they know.
So if my service at the school looks a little bleak right now, Casa is good. One of the babies who went home about a month ago (José Angel) came back for a visit, and he is still as fat as ever (even fatter, really), and has grown quite a bit more hair. I didn´t even recognize him at first. Let´s hear it for healthy babies.
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