Dear SUNY-TEFL 490 members,
In this post, you need to describe TWO puzzling teaching/learning situations that you have experienced in the practice teaching school in detail, which you find hard to understand and to take action against (an event which you do not know what to do). It can be concerned with some aspects of your own practice teaching practice, the learning process of the students in your practice teaching classes, the mentor teachers' classroom practice, their attitudes towards students,their philosophy of teaching,the student behaviour in class, or your own questions about how to act in a certain classroom-related situation. You need to do this task individually.You also need to make some suggestions for TWO OF YOUR CLASSMATES' PUZZLES.
On of the learning puzzling situations was the fact that one of the students who was not successful very much answered a difficult question quite successfully and she also gave extra infıormation about the answer of the question .It was really surprising for me and a good experience because I observed that such a student gave a very nice and satisfying answer to my question.
ReplyDeleteThe second teaching puzzling situation was the fact that some of the students were answering to my questions and the other students were playing with papers and talking to each other at the back of the class.In that situation,I couldn't understand what I should have done in order to take the students' attention to the lesson and provide all of the students participate to the lesson and do the activities effectively in time .
I encountered many puzzling teaching/learning situation during my fieldwork, however there were two of them which I happened to observe very often.
ReplyDeleteFirst of them was the misunderstanding of the given instructions. Even the simplest instruction may have sounded very challenging to the learners. It attracted my attention very much, because they dealt with hard subjects in lessons, however they had difficulty with simple instructions or daily conversations.
The second was the deficiency of learners in cooperation with their group members. Suddenly, a chaos occurred when they were supposed to work with their friends. I believe it is because of their learning based on individual skills.
First of all, one of my mentor teacher was always talking Turkish in the class and the students got used to it. One day she got angry with them and started to speak English. When she asked something the class was silent. She especially asked someone but that boy said " Hocam Turkçe söyleyin cevap vereyim, anlamıyorum böyle". I was shocked because it should be an English class.The teacher shouted at him but the boy was laughing.
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