Today I took my tutee to open lecture at my college. I told
her to try to listen carefully and try to understand as much as she can. We spend
around 50 minutes there. It was open lecture where one of the faculty was
presenting her preliminary research results on teachers training and retention
at school of North Carolina. Audience was composed of graduate school student
(mainly PhD students) and other faculty members. The tutee said that she could
not understand anything. I asked her if she could at least see how differently
different faculty was speaking? She said not really. I was a bit surprised,
because when we watched Ted Talks, she could understand everything and was able
to discuss issues with all the details from the video.
The reason she might not understand everything was that she
was actually nervous to be in different environment where she didn’t know
anyone and most importantly she didn’t have any previous schema about the topic
of the lecture. So, this was my mistake. However, I still think was useful experience
for her to feel how it might be like to be in classroom outside of CIES. She is
planning to start her school in September and this was little imitation of the
classroom environment for her. After, we the lecture we just talked about our
weekend plans and plans for the upcoming week.
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