Reflection 4:  Class observation “Opening a classroom door” 

1. what was the role of the teacher?

The teacher's role is try to make the students paying attention, she doesn't  scream , but most of the time she found herself rising up her voice.

2. what was the role of the students?

They were listening the teacher's instruccions , some of them were writing on their notebooks, others were just using their mobile phones or drawing.

3. what were some characteristics of the teaching/learning process?

The teacher uses listening activities, repetition,grammar translation,she tried to encourage students to participate in the classroom activieties which was an extremely difficult work.

4. what was the nature of student-teacher interaction?

A lot of threaten was allowed in the classroom, it was the way in which she could show more power than the students. I really think that power is important on that kind of schools.

5. what was the nature of student-student interaction?

The worst I have ever seen in my life. They behave very badly they have no respect for their classmates at all. The girls were so vulgar that I could close my eyes and imagine that I was talking with wommen older than me.We create some rules and they started to behabe in a better way. For example one student said that girls should show respect for them too. I totally agree with him and I told them that I you want respect you have to be respectfull with the others.

6. how were the feelings of the students dealt with?

It seem to me that they feel a bit bored, an axious too, because the teacher didn't tell them what the class was about, the level of the book they worked was not acoording to their level of knoledge, they were threaten all the time with the fact that if they didn't payed attention they were going to be suspended or they will have to bring their parents, so they work under pression all the time. I can't imagine how uncomfortable that will be.

7. how was language viewed?

Well some of them think that is boring but they commonly say the same thing about others subjects, but there is a little group that actually enjoy the language and say that is fun but I think that they don't have the skills to develop the language properly.

8. how was culture viewed?

To be honest, if I understand the question well, there wasn't much culture in the group, some of them enjoyed the activities for moments but the rest of the class didn't seem interesting in any subject, I asked them but they were very demotivated, so I t was quite difficult, but at the end I asked to other teachers what to do, and they recommend me a very good movie "Simon Birch" and they enjoyed the movie because it was fun, and emotional and related to their age.

9. what areas of language were emphasized?

Grammar, vacabulary ,listening and a bit of speaking.

10. what language skills are emphasized?

Writting, listening, speaking, grammar but most of the time grammar.

11. what was the role of the student's L1?

Very important, they didn't speak in english unless they have to repeat something.

12. how was evaluation accomplished?

They have grade for everything they worked on class the teacher told me that you coudn't make a quiz because they neve studied, it was better to make everything in class, they get point for that work and at the end that was their grades.

13. how did the teacher respond to student errors?

She didn't correct speacking error just grammar error on the worksheet she tell them, what was wrong but she didn't explained why, she said this is wrong changed it and the student usually went to another student and copy the right answer.

14. what techniques did the teacher use?

The teacher uses translation.