02/07/2019 - Cultural differences concerning time

The first thing that appears on my mind when referring to time issue, is that We as Latin Americans have a paradigm that are always late for any appointment. I once watched a video about a guy who was comparing people from Colombia and people from Japan, when He referred to time, He mentioned that when Japanese people have a jobI interview they always arrive before the appointment time, so this let   them get ready if any circumstance appears, but, Colombian people arrive to job interviews after the appointment time which obviously disqualify them to get the job because of unpunctuality. By watching this video I though about my own country. Unfortunately Peruvian people are know for being unpunctual. There is even a saying whenever we set an appointment: "Peruvian time or British time?" (unpunctual or punctual?).

Now related to teaching at schools, we as teachers; must be very punctual, not only when arriving on time to our classes; but also, when checking homeworks, and giving back checked exams, quizzes or homeworks. I remember a parent once told me, Miss I like that you always take time to check homeworks that you give to our kids, we always encourage our son to do his english homework because we know it will be checked by you on the setted time, so hearing these words really motivated me to continue checking homeworks on time. Do you, as teachers; agree that we must check homeworks on the setted time? I know this may look challenging because sometimes We have no time to check homeworks during classes, but I can give you a tip. For my first grade students I always give them worksheets about class taught and while they were solving their papers and after giving instructions I start to check their homeworks in the notebooks, and all homework checked had a seal with the date. This was what parents look at home and what this parent congratulate me for. 

Remember that we are models for our ,students, their answers will always be, "but miss why do you want me to arrive on time to class, if you always arrive late? Children see, children do! We have to be their models.