2007年10月31日 星期三
I engaged in a tutor teaching in my department. The department offered me a student from another department to teach. He studied hard in the beginning. But recently, he became lazy and even didn’t go to my class. Today, he didn’t call me that he would not come to class again. I stayed in the class waited for him at least twenty minutes. I was really angry because he did not respect me. Therefore, I quitted the tutor teaching immediately. It was too terrible. I don’t want to do this job. It wastes my time. Even a part-time job is better than tutor teaching.
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The first two sentence are repetitive. all you need to say is this: "The Applied English Department offered me a job tutoring a student from another department."
"Today, he didn’t call to tell me that he would not come to class again. I waited for him in our classroom for at least twenty minutes."
"Therefore, I quit the tutor job immediately."
You need to tell the reader what you think is a low-level and unpleasant part-time job, e.g., "Even a part-time job cleaning toilets would be better than tutoring disrespectful and uncooperative students."
Respect is such a difficult thing to earn, isn't it? And the problem with respect in a situation like this is that the student may feel that he has a reason not to respect you. I'm not saying that he does -- I have no way of knowing, so I wouldn't even venture a guess: that would be disrespectful of me. All I'm saying is that different people perceive what should be the same situation in different ways. It is possible that you did or said something that he felt was disrespectful to him. Only you will be able to decide whether you did. It's also possible that you didn't. People often misunderstand each other this way. Differences in perceptions and differences in understanding what respect means and how to act respectfully can cause all kinds of conflict between people. In America, for example, it can get you killed if you "disrespect" (also said as "diss") the wrong person. And you don't even have to do anything in particular for someone who wants to hurt you to accuse you of dissing him or her. All you have to do is be in the wrong place at the wrong time and your goose is cooked.
I'm always pleased when students who work at cram schools or as tutors complain about the problems they have when they try to teach whatever it is that they teach. Maybe it teaches them how difficult it is to do any job well. I'm not happy because you and other students have these kinds of problems, only that you have some experience with problem students. I always hope that the problems go away quickly.
I think you did the right thing by quitting. I would certainly have done the same thing. At the same time, however, I wonder whether you might be interested to know why the student lost interest. It might be worthwhile to call him up and ask him to have a chat about it. Sometimes you can learn interesting things from your students. Sometimes you can't. That's the way life is.
I agree wtih what you did, if I were you I will do the same thing. That student did not care, so you didn't have to care about him, either.
If I were you, I would find a part-time job, for most students don't work hard on their studying even they pay for it, they surly won't take it serious when it's free.
And I would put your last few sentences together. "It was so terrible that I don't want to do this time-wasting job anymore"
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