Responsibility and the silliness that follows.
It’s been a while since I’ve added to my blog here. I’ve been busy, yeah that same old tired excuse. But really… work has been hectic. The work itself is not that hard, what is hard is working with people. Particularly when you are trying to help them but they do not see it that way. This program I am running is supposed to enable the teaching institutions of Malaysia (the 22 institutions that I am working with) bring themselves up to degree awarding status whereas before they were just awarding certificates. This means drawing up an entire degree program (a teaching degree specializing in primary education with 11 majors), training their staff to teach at a higher level and changing their way of doing things to suit the purpose. The latter being the hardest because these people are sublimely convinced that their way of doing things is flawless, even when the faults stare them squarely in the face. To be fair, they are nice people mostly but I cannot help sometimes, when working with certain ones, feeling like I am communicating with people who have child-like intellectual faculties. Worse still, is trying to be professional and trying hard not to be condescending.
I suppose I shouldn’t be so harsh in judging them because surely it is not easy for them too. For years that have been teaching the same things over and over again, having classes that only go on for half a day leaving them free to go home or wherever they go the rest of the day, not having to answer to anyone outside of their institutions for whatever they do – or do not do, teaching people how to teach but not so much teaching subjects that may require relatively more intellectual effort and much more.
We are going into the second semester now, things are better but they are still not as they should be.
Trudging along trudging along.
It’s been a while since I’ve added to my blog here. I’ve been busy, yeah that same old tired excuse. But really… work has been hectic. The work itself is not that hard, what is hard is working with people. Particularly when you are trying to help them but they do not see it that way. This program I am running is supposed to enable the teaching institutions of Malaysia (the 22 institutions that I am working with) bring themselves up to degree awarding status whereas before they were just awarding certificates. This means drawing up an entire degree program (a teaching degree specializing in primary education with 11 majors), training their staff to teach at a higher level and changing their way of doing things to suit the purpose. The latter being the hardest because these people are sublimely convinced that their way of doing things is flawless, even when the faults stare them squarely in the face. To be fair, they are nice people mostly but I cannot help sometimes, when working with certain ones, feeling like I am communicating with people who have child-like intellectual faculties. Worse still, is trying to be professional and trying hard not to be condescending.
I suppose I shouldn’t be so harsh in judging them because surely it is not easy for them too. For years that have been teaching the same things over and over again, having classes that only go on for half a day leaving them free to go home or wherever they go the rest of the day, not having to answer to anyone outside of their institutions for whatever they do – or do not do, teaching people how to teach but not so much teaching subjects that may require relatively more intellectual effort and much more.
We are going into the second semester now, things are better but they are still not as they should be.
Trudging along trudging along.
I suppose I shouldn’t be so harsh in judging them because surely it is not easy for them too. For years that have been teaching the same things over and over again, having classes that only go on for half a day leaving them free to go home or wherever they go the rest of the day, not having to answer to anyone outside of their institutions for whatever they do – or do not do, teaching people how to teach but not so much teaching subjects that may require relatively more intellectual effort and much more.
We are going into the second semester now, things are better but they are still not as they should be.
Trudging along trudging along.
It’s been a while since I’ve added to my blog here. I’ve been busy, yeah that same old tired excuse. But really… work has been hectic. The work itself is not that hard, what is hard is working with people. Particularly when you are trying to help them but they do not see it that way. This program I am running is supposed to enable the teaching institutions of Malaysia (the 22 institutions that I am working with) bring themselves up to degree awarding status whereas before they were just awarding certificates. This means drawing up an entire degree program (a teaching degree specializing in primary education with 11 majors), training their staff to teach at a higher level and changing their way of doing things to suit the purpose. The latter being the hardest because these people are sublimely convinced that their way of doing things is flawless, even when the faults stare them squarely in the face. To be fair, they are nice people mostly but I cannot help sometimes, when working with certain ones, feeling like I am communicating with people who have child-like intellectual faculties. Worse still, is trying to be professional and trying hard not to be condescending.
I suppose I shouldn’t be so harsh in judging them because surely it is not easy for them too. For years that have been teaching the same things over and over again, having classes that only go on for half a day leaving them free to go home or wherever they go the rest of the day, not having to answer to anyone outside of their institutions for whatever they do – or do not do, teaching people how to teach but not so much teaching subjects that may require relatively more intellectual effort and much more.
We are going into the second semester now, things are better but they are still not as they should be.
Trudging along trudging along.
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