This afternoon, the portal has been brought back online, but Blackboard still remains stubbornly down.
All functions, like announcements from lecturers, student time tables, discussion forums have been inaccessible to the entire NIE.
All of which means one thing to the average student.
We now have a valid excuse for not having our tutorial notes in class. :D
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Tym mentioned in the comments of the previous post that she was shocked to see how the lecturers treated us like kids in NIE.
[If you don't remember the previous post, I meant a comment about how, for the National Day celebrations, the lecturers were supposed to 'escort' us to the NIE grounds to watch the performances. Probably as a real life demonstration on how we were supposed to escort our future primary school classes to events in the hall]
Anyway, seeing as how so many of them are ex-teachers one way or the other, I suppose it's become ingrained in them by now, the tendency to treat other future teachers as kids. Which is ironic considering they're supposed to train us into becoming like them, but in fact the way they treat us is making us turn into our students instead.
It's a Catch-22 situation that has no end in sight, unless some really big changes are made.
So most likely even after I graduate and teach for a while, I might stumble upon some blog about how NIE lecturers are still treating their trainees like kids? *shrugs*
3 comments:
The trick is for the lecturers to remember that they are no longer teaching children/teenagers, but in fact teaching adults.
The scary thing is that some people who stay in teaching too long treat everyone around them that way --- like children. That's the real occupational peril no glossy MOE advertisement warns you about.
I've been in this for FIVE years and all I can is this - "if you think NIE is bad, try school".
Trisha: Interestingly, they're supposed to be the 'experts' on education aren't they? And I'm supposed to learn from them...... sigh...........
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