‘Cute little classroom cadres’: Chinese teacher praised for inventing exotic ‘jobs’ for students to empower them with more responsibility
- A teacher in China got creative when coming up with jobs for her class to compete for before they are decided in a vote by fellow students
- The jobs include normal roles like class monitor, but there are some more exotic titles such as light director, towel director, and desk director
A Chinese primary school teacher has been praised online for coming up with the idea of creating special “jobs” like book administrator, and windowsill director for her students to compete for.
The jobs include traditional school positions like class monitor, study committee leader and sport committee leader, but there are some more exotic sounding jobs such as light director, towel director, desk director, water dispenser director, corridor director and umbrella director, the Beijing Evening News reported.
There were also positions on the list for a book administrator, desk goods supervisor, flower and grass administrator, windowsill director, front door administrator and back door administrator.
The 53 jobs outnumber the 51 students in the class and will be decided by the pupils themselves who vote for which students they would like to see in each role. The name of the school and the teacher in Sichuan province, southwestern China, were not mentioned in the report.
The list of jobs was shared online by the mother of one of the students earlier this month after her son’s teacher announced the jobs were open for students to apply for.
The mother, surnamed Chen, said her son’s teacher gets along well with her students who are motivated and enthusiastic about learning.
Chen jokingly said that faced with so many “job” options, her son now has “choice phobia disorder”.