Social class was not what we expected to see in schools since the teacher in charge couldn’t be present because of unknown reasons, but that was not the problem, it was that there was a substitute that really made me feel disappointed about his role in the classroom. He couldn’t be worse because he never put attention on his students’ needs, he only checked a homework and worked on his own duties. This “teacher” never taught anything; the class was nobody-centered and there was no classroom management to control some misbehaviors, in spite of the fact we were present.
When we are developing language acquisition in our students we must consider that they have to use communicative strategies to improve their learning. The activity didn’t consider multiple intelligences to get good results in this process. The class were not having the “silent period” because students have a good level of English, so there were no excuses to justify the poor activity.
"Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language - natural communication - in which speakers are concerned not with the form of their utterances but with the messages they are conveying and understanding." Stephen Krashen pointed out this important theory about what teachers must do when students are acquiring a second language, but the person mentioned before didn’t practice any technique that implies social interaction to improve students’ learning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Language_Acquisition
Krashen, Stephen D. Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning
When we are developing language acquisition in our students we must consider that they have to use communicative strategies to improve their learning. The activity didn’t consider multiple intelligences to get good results in this process. The class were not having the “silent period” because students have a good level of English, so there were no excuses to justify the poor activity.
"Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language - natural communication - in which speakers are concerned not with the form of their utterances but with the messages they are conveying and understanding." Stephen Krashen pointed out this important theory about what teachers must do when students are acquiring a second language, but the person mentioned before didn’t practice any technique that implies social interaction to improve students’ learning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Language_Acquisition
Krashen, Stephen D. Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning
1 comment:
JC,
You bring up a point that no one much wants to talk about in the US: that when there is a substitute teacher, often times that person often ends up merely 'babysitting' the students rather than teaching them. I hope that the substitute was not there in the class for more than one day. You raise a good point--that if the students were silent, it was not because they needed to be.... Hope the situation didn't last long!
Gina
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