This was a comment written by one of my students taking the online Moodle course I have been teaching. I utilized the SurveyMonkey website to digitize the evaluation that I made for my face-to-face classes and I sent my Moodle students the link. So far I have 5 of 15 responses, and it is a boost to read comments like that. To me, it is a wonderful compliment.
Things are fairly crazy right now, with grading and exams and final projects. I am not looking forward to creating several exams tomorrow for any students who are forced to take the extraordinario exam due to failing the course (either for not attending or for having less than a 70%). I already know I will have several students from one class taking it because they have too many unjustified absences, but from my three other classes, there are no students who have to take it, so it is just a formality. I´m not happy about having to create exams for no reason, but that bureaucracy is part of academia, I guess.
While talking with my dear friend, Sara, last night on Skype, I was doing some reflection on the progress my students have made over the past several months. She mentioned something that got me thinking even more about the effects of being here and working with so many different students, connecting with them as a teacher and as a representative of the different facets of my identity, namely: the ripple effect. What effect will my teaching have on these individuals? How can I continue to make the most of the time we have together to help them not only to learn English, but also to develop life skills?
I leave you with a picture that I included in the Modal Auxiliaries section on the Final Exam for my 2nd cuatri students from the site, Icanhascheezburger.com:
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