Generating a random list of students for testing

I test my students by asking them to tell me (or re-tell me) a story, man-to-man, face-to-face, one by one, just the student, me and my voice recorder. But what order to call them in? Alphabetical? By student number? Reverse alphabetical? Reverse student number? There are only so many changes you can ring, and even [...]

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Too much work, not enought time

While some are on vacation, we in the land of the falling yen are still slaving away, some of us until the beginning of August, to ensure the students get their money’s worth of 15 classes per semester. I’ve been keeping a log of how many hours I spend on non-class work. Being a salaried [...]

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