Huge Spider legs

In the photo, it looks as if there are 4 huge legs of a Robot Spider standing at the side of an Ocean Terminal in Sydney.

Robots are widely used nowadays. They can be used to deal with dangerous missions by the Police such as treating suspicious bomb or explosives. Some can be used in wars for detection or attack purposes.

In Hong Kong, I learn that there are restaurants having robots serving the customers. They come with menus, receive orders for food and even deliver dishes of food to the customers’ tables.

In recent years, teachers in Hong Kong are receiving endless orders from EMB to carry out new policies. They become robots, teaching tools, report and evaluation writing machines. To enhance professionalism, teachers are forced to spend at least 150 hours on attending courses, seminars, lectures, sharing of experience and services of any kind within 3 years. EMB also lays down bench marks for teachers teaching Languages, gives external reviews to each school and changes the structures of the school boards.

The following are some of the elements added to my school:

1. A certain percentage of IT (Information Technology) Teaching should be applied to the subject taught. This involves a lot of preparation in making PowerPoints or whatever materials useful.

2. Projects should be assigned to the students to do and complete within a certain period of time.

3. Teachers should ask students questions during lessons. They should not ask just a few of them, but everyone so that there is a great involvement in the students. To fulfill this, the teachers have to prepare a lot of questions to ask in each lesson!

4. Students should be praised and encouraged rather than be scolded or punished.

5. Stickers should be given to those students who do their homework well.

6. Online exercises should be given to the students regularly.

7. Continuous Assessment should be given to the students, so teachers have to keep a detailed records of what and how good or bad their students do in their homework and projects.

8. Moral Education should be introduced to the students through the class-teacher of each class. Class teachers are encouraged to meet each and every student and talk with him/her. Some teachers choose the idea of eating lunch with their students.