This is worthy to be the 200th Post

Eda Alabuga who is my beloved 9th grade student at 9-B of Üsküdar Doğa High School

Bir kızın babasından sonraki kahramanı ögretmenidir. kahramanlar mükemmeldir ama onlarda hastalanabilir. sizde babamdan sonraki kahramanımsınız. o gün fazla yoruldunuz o yuzden öyle oldunuz. gecmis olsun hocam. biliyorumki siz calismadan duramazsınız biran once ıyılesinde gelin sızi cok ozledik hocam. sızi cok seviyoruz tekrar gecmis olsun biran once goruşmek dilegiyle iyi akşamlar...

She says: the second hero of a girl after her father is her teacher. The heroes are perfect however they can also get sicked. You are my hero after my father, I know you got tired very much that day. I hope you get well soon. I know you cannot stand without working. Please get well soon and come to school my dear teacher. We love you so much. Hope to see you as soon as possible. Have a good night.

A Teacher's Day Memory

Eda Alabuga (Üsküdar Doğa Koleji 9/B 2012):
Merhaba hocam :) belki sizi tanıyalı fazla olmadı ama o kadar iyisiniz ki sizi cok cok seviyorum siz sadece bi ögretmen degil abimiz, babamız, arkadaşımız, sırdaşımız oldunuz. Ayrıcada cok cok iyi bi ögretmensiniz sayenizde en nefret ettigim ders simdi en eglendigim ve en sevdigim ders oldu siz mükemmel bi ögretmensiniz dünyanın en iyi en mükemmel ögretmenisiniz benim icin iyiki varsınız iyiki tanımısım sizi sizi çok seviyorum ögretmenler gününüz kutlu olsun dünyanın en mükemmel ögretmeni :)

To Study At School or To Have a Job

It has been argued these days that many children are forced to stay at school and study subjects that will be little value to them in the future. These children may disrupt the education of the majority and should be allowed to leave school early to find themselves a job. Education is the biggest matter that needs to be questioned for societies to asnwer and to be appleıd properly. It is impossible for societies to have totally witted youngs or individuals so, that is very naturel to have some lazy or rebellious students. I think there is no use of forcing these kids to go to school everyday despite their unwillingness. The best thing that can be done might allow those children to have some jobs considering their interest and abilities.And also If we want these children to have a profession we should let them decide what they want instead of pushing them into the way where we want them to go. Besides these, everyone cannot be white collar workers, someone needs to be blue collar workers that the system can run without trouble.

Make up Course, God damn it

I am supposed to be off today but somebody told me that she had wanted to have make up course to understand English grammer better than others and I accepted it by thinking that it would be just a few hours so i would still be off, I thought working ,even if it is just a few hours, is better than sleeping at home. However now I am at work and I cannot do what I plan because my student who wants to have make up course is not here and i do not think she will come so i feel myself as a donkey which carries its pack on his back and wake up in all mornings of the week and weekend. I used to come to believe people when I was student and I used to have strong beliefs about people but now I perish myself whenever I  want to be optimistic. I cannot hope anything good about this life, people should respect each other. Ok, it is right they pay money for this language education but I am not anybody`s slave or villein to go and come when desired. Working and Producing make me happy and healtier but seen as an middle age slave does makes me crazy.  I hate people living and feeding themselves carelessly in this country, I do hate people earning money in this country and  who do not pay their taxes, yet now I am one of them I am a capitalism`s modern slave. let me explain you how :-( . I work in a company in which speaking English is taught, "The boss" ask me to sign a two years contract to provide me insurance and to give my legal rights to me and I say that I do not think to work here for a long time. He, by regarding this, offered me to give a work without the job and life safety, but the most painful side is that I have to accept this offer as I need money and I am subjected to a stupid exam to gain my right in Turkey. I am  an English teacher but maths and science are asked to me even if I do not have any further education on them, they do not ask me even one English word but they ,unblushingly, can easily complain about the poor quality of language education in this country.

               

                "VIVA LA TURQUIE"

So many researches are done in this fuckin` country to show its power, politicians and generals blackmail other countries showing the fake, nominal power of the army but they are still not aware of the importance of the education. Education is the foot of everything, if you educate your youth, you can do everything whatever you want. Germany is the biggest example of this, they were defeated two times in world wars but we should remember that 99 % of the population were literate at that time while we have just 15 % literate people. This is what I mean they didnt ignore to educate the citizens from HANSEL to GRATEL.  NOW They are one of the most powerful ecomomy in this fuckin` world.

  "VIVA LA TURQUIE, VIVA LA TURQUIE"

HOW DO WE TEACH OR LEARN?

Teaching or in other word education is one of the most important key of a nation or the whole world as we can exist and develop the life on earth via it so it can be infered that life would be so hard without education. Considering these brief information, we can easily claim that a life without education cannot be thought or even dreamed.

For reaching our aims in education, we have to have some good teaching techniques for educating the people who are candidates to dedicate themselves for the future generation. Unlike the most common belief, being a teacher is not so easy. On the contrary, i think it is one of the most difficult profession on earth and it needs to be dealt with carefully. Of course we should be expert and give importance to that job so we are to be ready for doing this crucial task. We can talk about so many teaching methods here such as generative grammer method that gives grammer more than daily usage and information or we can mention about silent way method or any others. I think it will be useless thing to talk or discuss about what is going to be used while teaching because as an experinced english learner and a teacher i am sure about that education should be in the way that the students want.

According to my experiences, using an exact method is one of the key point of failure. Here is the explanation. We can make a resemblence between plants and students if the students are plants so we are the farmers and we should water them regularly and give the necessary items to the plants to provide them enough time and power to grow. All students are different kinds of plant, they have different personalities so we should have different medicine to get make them better when they need us, age is not so important and this subject is out of the word here, students can be at their six or sixty, the aim is to teach them perfectly. To me the best technique in teaching is knowing the student and the ability to provide the necessary knowledge them because if you do this both sides takes pleasure from what they want and they have desire to teach and to be taught. A smiling face is the secret for opening the locked doors to the teacher. İf we need to give an example, this is great; think about a student who is intellegent but lazy. How can we take his attention ? First we should be aware of why he is here and what he wants and then we should know what kind of subjects he likes so we can prepare a proper plan for him for example we present the subject hoe he likes, i must note that if we have a large class we should of course apply this by giving importance to majority`s attention.

In short i believe in that success is inevitable for the determined student and motivated teacher.

Go ahead for the weird ambiguity

Well ... i do not know what to say but so many things happen around me and the most painful thing is that i cannot do anything to change them. There is nothing to do, actually there are so many things , tasks, duties or missions but which is mine? I cannot be sure what i should do to  manage. Everybody says me this is for you, somebody says that my teacher "you are perfect, you can do everything so many of those people ask for your class to attend. However, unfoutunately, although they (students) really want me, the managers suck my blood and knowledge.

The World is unfair; it is very easy to blame on the earth; the lifeless thing but they are the people, human beings make the world like that; cruel, unfair, brutal.

Please dont think that i am complaing about my life but please  make empathy and try to understand me. My family gives me their support, they back me but they also expect something from their university graduated and working son yet i cannot back up them. This hurts me so much. \

Actually i dont wanna be a teacher at least in a primary school for not forgetting my second body, my second individual, my second language. I have to work at two jobs for earning good money for myself for my family and for... OF COURSE life life life life   but how PLS SOMEBODY says me how i am able to manage a good life ?

I am aware that i am the modern slave of the recent slavery system; capitalism and i can do nothing to change this situation

There are so many exams to hold LGS OSS YDS KPDS UDS KPSS and so on i have a diploma i have degree but i am not paid in the same rate despite the fact that i work hard and i am better than the old, jaded, disregarded teachers.

Anyway i do not wanna write my problems on life anymore, some good things are also happening in my life.

At last friday of the last week of my boring life in that uncertain world, i had my toefl exam, it was not so difficult  i mean it is as easy as solving a boring english exam i think if u give necessary importance you can easily pass this fucking exam but i have to add this information about toefl, the reading passages are really hard to solve if you do not know enough words. And now i am waiting a good remark.

Wait a minute guys, this exam marathone has not ended yet because i have UDS exam next week. PLS pray for me and yasemin. I really need a good job for both marrying and providing lifes to me and my family. IS the goverment job good of not enough but it is safe and makes you relax.