Term ended and I am a failure or failed?

It has been months since I last posted.

I don't what is happening with me this days regarding my log! May I put blame on the social sites I am registered to and attending? I am, of late, a bit addicted to JamiiForums (I am a very active member here, I spend more than 4hrs each day and sometimes even more, browsing) and Facebook. You it ain't easy for me to access my blog with a mobile phone I am having, I can not post on the move, you know. But for these two, thats what you call on-on-the-go. I also had posted earlier that I have failed to give my blog an 'aim'. What should I post? For which audience and the like. Stranded just like many other bloggers who started the same way I did.

Now back to serious business that made me write this piece today.

Some people tend to liken teaching and farming; there is input, some kind of processing and then expecting  output of some kind. Just as the first term in this 2011 ended I reviewed my work. Especially this year. I think I have failed, or did my students fail me? My ICT students failed to the rate that is alarming and they seem not to really care! My Geography students in 2nd year did an external exam (I did not prepare this) and did just bad, same as the Form IVs.

Did this make me feel bad? Did it made me mad? YES to both answers.

I asked them. Eti, my exams are very tough. I am very stingy when giving credit. I don't use Kiswahili in class. I don't give direct answers to the questions they ask.  I don't encourage cramming thats why, I think. Why giving only low level of knowledge questions? Because those type of questions are given also in their National Exams? Of all these points I agree to only one, about stinginess. work hard and the fruits will be seen. Not just a reproduction of the material and then expecting a 100%.

But I need to work on my strategy, if I am to continue teaching!