Most of us when we were in the school we used to believe that cheating in the exams is not bad and this needs smart peoples to do it.For example copying some else homework, giving someone a test answer, allowing some one to copy homework, using memory devices as an aid to answer test questions, arranging to give or receive answers by signals, leaving information in the restroom, and writing a report for someone. You might consider some of those examples as a kind of helping for your friends, but you have to remember that cheating is cheating and its meaning never changes. If you are a teacher now you have a big responsibility to change your students’ thoughts about cheating and allow them to understand that this deviant behavior will stay with them when they became responsible persons in the society and we have to say for them that when they cheat they are lying on themselves because they are taking what is not their rights. Besides that, as teachers, you have to pay attention to not to use punishment in solving this problem, because it will never works with our students who already believe that they are smart in doing this.
Teaching is
for the stout-hearten and mighty in spirit. There are professions which offer
more tangible rewards. Teaching is more than a profession, however; it is a
vocation. It is a vocation because it requires not only a skill to be mastered,
and a
knowledge
of our discipline, but also an ethical life which inspires in young people a
desire to live life well.
Hello zahraa
ReplyDeleteCheating is a problem faced the teacher specially in elementary school. it is not the responsibility of students to not cheat but also the responsibility of teacher to educated their students about the side effects of cheating. and also we should change the believe of our students that the good teacher is the teacher that let us cheat during exams.
i think the problem here is more complicated and is related to the attitude of people in the society. in our cultures,parents encourage their children to cheat or get a peers help in an exam. cheating is also encouraged in official exams. observers at exams usually facilitate students actions to cheat.
ReplyDeleteusually you can't have a class in a school with more than 40 students, it is more likely to happen in universities. in universities intrinsic motivation will help the instructor guide students, but if this is the case of schools, then i thinks that this is a difficult job.
ReplyDeletethe problem is that teacher usually teach indirectly their students to cheat. therefore if our society and mainly the educational system is sending this message of "cheating is allowed if not caught" then how can we expect our students to do the opposite. teachers has first to start working on their hidden messages then teach students the importance and consequences of cheating on them and on their surrounding now and in the future.
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