Needs
Image via Wikipedia Here is a comment I posted to a discussion about Needs, a blog post at Scenes from the Battleground. I suggest you read the original Needs article first. It will hopefully make the following more intelligible. Update: I have edited this slightly (tho it is still too long and wordy) after reflecting [...]
Facing The Future
Facing The Future Originally uploaded by duncmc [Update: Comments have been closed.] So, where to, now? I tried direct instruction. It “worked” in that,* students meekly did what they were told* it gave students a feeling that they were in a “proper” class, taught by a teacher “in charge”* it was easy to sort the [...]
Looking back (5)
Where To Now? Originally uploaded by Katelyn Gibson Gatto and Holt made the most convincing arguments, and provided the most practical help. Holt pointed out that children (people) learn most from what they themselves actually do, rather than from what teachers do (or don’t do): “Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the [...]
Looking back (4)
facing the wall Originally uploaded by NEINmeister I began to question my own values and assumptions:* was it necessarily A Good Thing to offer more choices, more autonomy?* what if my cultural values and those of my students were different, like Lisa Delpit describes? If that were true here, too, then I might not be [...]
Looking back (3)
Look Back Originally uploaded by InTheSunStudio The next stage (tho it wasn’t actually so neatly chronological) was reading stuff about empowerment, about language as power, about power differentials, about the classroom as a stage where power plays are enacted. That seemed to make some sense: * were my students perhaps behaving in ways similar to [...]
Looking back (2)
the look back. Originally uploaded by theshanghaieye What was going on? And what should I/could I do about it? My razor-sharp mind soon (after a few years) noticed a few things:1. students need to be told what to do2. they try to blend in with the group, try not to stand out3. they are afraid [...]
Looking back
looking back Originally uploaded by jennypenny26 I started this blog as a doodling-pad – a place to write in order to more clearly see what I want to say – as I blundered along attempting to “teach” autonomous language-learning at a private Japanese institution of higher education. I hoped also to attract comments and observations, [...]
Bad Cop
Bad Cop Originally uploaded by snuggle up & read About a year ago, I noticed I had a number of students who were showing up to class but then goofing off or sleeping and not actually doing much work. My solution had two prongs to it: a pitchfork (slightly heated). No, what I did was: [...]
Class records and filing
Over the years I’ve used several different ways of keeping track of exactly what the students and I did in class, but I have yet to be completely satisfied with any one system. I have used hanging files to keep the loose-leaf handouts and student homework, but what about extra copies of handouts that I [...]
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