Why am I extremely reluctant to ask Pee.Wan to sign?
Instead of offering help to the teachers, the leader(Pee.Wan) added unnecessary workload to them under various pretexts in order to experience the pleasure of “ruling” us.
“The gap between your thinking and the students’ thinking is just too big!” This supervisor once again undermined my confidence.
The reason was that she herself couldn’t use the “cross-multiplication method” for factorization, yet she insisted that the students wouldn’t understand the midterm exam paper I designed. She thought the students didn’t understand what a, b, and c represented on my test paper.
I repeatedly told her that the students would understand because it was the first step in solving the problem, which I had explained many times in class. However, she persisted in her opinion, repeatedly claiming, “The students simply don’t understand what you’re saying,” and “The gap between your thinking and the students’ thinking is just too big!” Then, she angrily pushed open the office door, saying she was “going to see the math teacher in Thailand.”
After consulting the Thai teacher, it was discovered that questions 1-3 (writing down the values of a, b, and c) were correct; only question 7, which was completely unrelated, had a wrong number. Even after I corrected it, the supervisor still refused to sign off on my exam paper…….
After a long while, she finally found some more problems, telling me that the multiple-choice options were too narrow, claiming that “students definitely can’t see them clearly”… “The options should fill the entire exam paper.” I explained, “This is because the questions are very short, so students can quickly find the answers after reading them without having to look from left to right on the paper, and the blank space on the right can be used for scratch work.” After I explained twice, she said, “Then get someone else to sign it!” As a result, the exam paper, which was designed last Thursday (December 11th), has not been printed until almost final term examination start. This isn’t a formatting issue; it’s her deliberate obstruction. Therefore, I refuse to revise my exam paper.
Her deliberate obstruction was also evident in her demand that Chinese teachers design “A/B” exam papers. She repeatedly emphasized that if the exam papers had many single-choice questions, students would definitely copy answers from each other, so at least two sets of “A/B” papers needed to be designed for each grade. Originally, I only needed to design 4 sets of papers for teaching four grades, but now I need to design 8 sets, and each revision requires 8 changes. A class only has about thirty students, yet they need two sets of papers for the exam…