Inky_CO#2

2B class

Composition

Teacher started from explaining agenda. Then teacher gave back journal #1 with the feedback. She explained that in the class she wants them to write as much as possible. Also, she said “don’t worry about grammar and spelling mistakes”. For journal #2 they had to write at least more than what they did in journal #2. Some of them did some of them didn’t. really distracting for the teacher and others were some student who were not paying attention. Teacher had hard time working with them. She was very polite and asked the student to take a paper and start writing. However, some of them didn’t listen to her. In this class, I realized that we will have that kind of students. For example, in different class when they discussed “were encouraged to come to the USE?” one student replied, “I was forced to come here by my manager”. So, when I saw how patiently teacher kept repeating to “I am here to help you”, “I really want to help you, but I can’t because you are not doing assignments”. For some reason, I didn’t think that I might have students who does not have internal nor external motivation. Maybe, their parents forced them to come so they have no interest in doing homework. I was wondering if I would be as patient as teacher was in composition class. Also, how she handled this situation was really interesting. She gave assignment for those who completed their homework, and invited those who didn’t at the back of the room.

Then they worked on connecting two independent sentences. She walked around to see if anybody needs some help. However, they didn’t have time for “beautiful mistakes” session, as class was over. She was able to go over almost everything on her agenda except quiz review. Out of three classes I observed, two ended up running short on time.

Lesson learned:

1)      even with the planed lesson I should be aware to cover the most important aspect of lesson at the beginning because I might not have enough time at the end.   

2)      Not all students will be eager to study, there will be those who are not interested at all. It is important to keep balance between those who really want to learn and try to help those without motivation to keep up with lessons. However, it is so tempting to work only with those who want and ignore those who doesn’t care :)