complicated simplicity

As a teacher, you will be able to do the impossible. If you are a student and you think you can… 1) Sleep in class 2) Copy homework(from friends or answer key) 3) Copy from a friend during classmates during a test 4) Play Big2/Bingo/Murderer 5) Hide when you forgot to bring your texts 6) Pretend to know your lab stuff when you have no idea what you are doing 7) Go steady with a girl/boy Change your hairstyle/spectacles/ear holes 9) Pretend to be writing when you are actually doodling 10) Sleep with your eyes open … without the teacher knowing. T-H-I-N-K A-G-A-I-N Teachers are better at these stuff than what the students think. Paraphrasing doesn’t help if what you are paraphrasing is wrong. Makes it worse when 1/2 the class make the same mistakes. Or if 1/4 of the class writes 1+1=3. Doesn’t help if you just make red ticks and give yourself marks for things like “At the bottom of a Goorg”. Or giving yourself marks for drawing a river without the water. Or telling me Nile River is in Asia. Teachers are good, and they are getting better. We call it evolution.

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