Everyday I have to interact with students from all walks of life and one of the things that have stood true about students is that they are quite informed and can quickly spot a situation where they are being duped or being given information that does not go hand in hand with current developments. This leads me to address what the issue really is here, as a former student I have understood what the students were trying to put across.
walking into any classroom and it is quite easy to see the age group that is prevalent these are young people between the ages of 19 and 29 they are young, informed and have the world at their finger tips. In walks the lecturer and he / she is a few decades older. their is nothing wrong with a lecturer who has seen lived a few more years that is at the end of the day, what makes up a truly informed educator.
As the lesson starts one cant help but notice the old tattered book that the lecturer is using or the fact that the formerly white pages are now yellow. he content in the lecture ay be helpful and full of information that one may not get from one course book but what is clear is the delivery of the message and the fact that some of the information given is still material that would have been helpful in the past century. One look in that classroom and half the students are asleep others look like they are paying attention whereas the rest may have decided to skip the class altogether.
I don’t mean to pass blame to the lecturers and say it is their fault that these students seem to lack the needed attention they are meant to have but in this growing nation it is important for all those in the education sector to be quick to improve on not only their teaching methods but also their teaching material. Once this is done I believe it will be quite easy for the students to feel like they are all in the same century and not just in the same room J
i cant agree with you more... i had a lecturer who couldnt even send notes through email and when we were doing a topic on modern culture he kept using examples from 1965!!!! what was that?really? even using a projector was an issue so we had to postpone class for half the semester...his notes were in tatters. and we had to always borrow notes from evening students... SURELY!!!
ReplyDeletehahahahahahahha momo si you have aired your grievances. kwani those lecturers are how funny- wangeci
ReplyDeletefunny???? wangeci...we slept a whole sem.... you know its so discouraging to have to go for a compulsory class with a lecturer who hasnt taken time to understand that we arent from the same time or age... we are very different n he did us a dissservice by lagging behind.
ReplyDeletemomo i am liking the discussion you have started here with wangeci and the fact that you identify with what i was trying to bring out but dont you think you also have a part to play like you cvan take time to probably teach the llecsturer or explain to him what is lacking in the class that is hindering you from being able to get 100% from the lesson
ReplyDeletei get what njeri is saying.. that you also have a part to play but njeri even you know how difficult it is to get a lecturer to change his teaching methods inorder to accomodate his students...some of them have someother HUGE HUGE egos aish utakuwa unajiongelesha aki
ReplyDeleteyes njeri we have a part to play... we even offered to help with some lessons heeeeeeh we didnt even finish with that lesson without him taking it personally. it was a mess. like ngeci has said inaitwa EGO
ReplyDeletemomo has a point njeri some of these lecturers dont understand who they are lecturing.. that they are from a totally totally different generation
ReplyDeletemaybe taht is something you need to address for them to elewa.. dealing with people who are from the generation Y
ReplyDeleteyes yes... some of them should seriously go through classes to help them deal with gen Y .
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