Tuesday, December 2, 2008

WEEK 3 Thing #6

Students nowadays are brought up with the "maid mentality" -- they can leave things around, and the "maid" will clear up after them.

Look at this picture I took somewhere in NP:
  • sweet wrapper
  • tissue paper
  • water bottle
  • newspapers
  • plastic bag

This is just after one afternoon of usage.

The same goes for the situation in the classroom. You can find sweet wrappers, erasures, crumpled paper, used pens, pencil shavings, etc. at the end of a lesson. Never mind the wastepaper basket is just at the door, and they can always bring along their rubbish and drop them off at the door.
A worse situation in my class is when students use the drawing equipment I supply, and at the end of the lesson, I have to go around the classroom picking up, sorting and storing them in the cupboard. Hardly do you see students well-behaved enough to keep them where they took from.

Any wonder why the Tray Return System in the canteens will not work?

1 comment:

ray said...

I sometimes think that this maybe because they don't have the ownership of the place.