I spend hours every day correcting the students' journals, as our teachers still do not know English well enough to do so themselves. It is often a moving experience, and I love getting to know the students better by reading their words. This is what V. Vijay wrote about why it's important to go to school. He seems to have no father and comes from a leprosy colony, yet this is what's on his mind: giving to the poor.
The children are amazing. And so are you!
ReplyDeleteIt is probably a whole other load of work to have the children learn from your corrections. Do you go over the journals and your corrections with them?
The children rewrite their journal entries after I've corrected them. They alternate each day between writing and rewriting. On frustrating days I wonder whether they are learning from the mistakes rather than absentmindedly copying, but I can see remarkable progress over the course of several months.
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