I mentioned in an earlier post that I was impressed how most of my students are learning the material in this very technical course in English when most of them have a different mother tongue. Of course I will never tell them I'm impressed...from my perspective all they do is whine and complain about how hard everything is, how few days off they get, etc. Well, back in MY day it was more difficult and we had fewer days off, but I digress.
There's about 7 years difference between me and the students which is quite a bit less than when I went through this school. It's a fine line between being friendly with them but keeping the professional attitude required to be an effective instructor. Naturally, being an overly-polite and helpful guy I have to error on the side of being more strict and tough with them to keep my proper level of superiority over these subordinates.
Every once in while though these kids get you to crack a smile. This week we, as main instructors, have had some time out of the classroom while a guest instructor covers a specific topic. I saw one of the students in the hallway and as he was passing he said 'Dave, we miss you in the class this week.'
These little bastards aren't so bad sometimes....
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