Hi everyone!
After a month practicing in your school, it is time to reflect on some of the issues you may have found by now and that are: intriguing, interesting, difficult to understand, different from what you expected, surprising.
This will give us a chance to reflect and think about our role there as assitants, about how invoved we are with the community (teachers and students), how they see us now that we have spent more time working with them (and for them!!).
Write a page where you discuss some of the issues with the characteristics mentione above.
This should be done and posted for next Tuesday!
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Indiscipline in classroom, but I think that this is a kind of problem that no matter in which school we are teaching we always found indiscipline, especially in high school students.
ReplyDeleteMaterial: In case of speakers if I want one who really works I need to bring mine to school (and a lot of teachers make bring their own.)
Administrative Issues: some teachers (not my case) are discriminate (for other teachers and administration) and I have heard about some cases in which payment is delayed "mysteriously" or checks "lost" for certain time.
HI,
ReplyDeletewell, we had a little problem in the institution we are teaching.
the teacher had a meeting two weeks ago and one of them said that they felt uncomfortable with us there, and in the teacher´s room, and they said that who we are, and that we never say hello!, and one of them said that we enter to the classroom without permission, and that nobody introduced us to them, even the guard that is all the mornings at the entrance, he never wanted us to enter to the institution he is always asking us questions about the schedules, and if we work there and those things.
we were really surprised, because the coordinator went with us with each teacher at each hour to introduced us to them, even she said that in our free time we cand spend it at the teacher´s room, and some teachers are the ones that look at us like strangers or something like that, but some others they were really kind with us.
Now to avoid problems, we are in CAADI, we have a gaffete, etc.
Some teachers said that that behavoir was because they were jealous, but I think that is because they are in some way affaid that young people can perform a better job than they do.
Hi people, here I leave my comments:
ReplyDeleteI have had good and bad experiences there where we practice. I was surprised with the discipline the “prefectos” want to implement over students’ behavior. Once I was “scolded” because I made a phone call outside a classroom. The “prefecta” thought I was a student. Cell phones are not permitted for students.
One teacher also told me that there are also checked by prefectos. They have to be in time and sign every time they enter the first class. On exams, they have to be there and walking through the seats, never sitting down.
Something that is different from what I expected is the organization of some teachers. Sometimes they give a chance to think that they don’t have a weekly or monthly plan of the content they are teaching. Because of this, I also find it a little bothering when I ask them what to plan for next week.
Another thing that is surprising for me is that all students except in one group treat me as well as they do with the teacher. I feel their respect, attention and their valuing of what I have for them. The group that doesn’t treat me like that is from the international program. They do respect me but sometimes they ignore me.
Something difficult to understand is the attitude some teachers have had toward us. We can’t stay in the teacher’s lounge anymore. We go to CAADI instead, where we are better welcome. This has happened since a teacher made a “complaint” in a meeting they had with the principal. The “complaint” was because according to that teacher, we didn’t greet them or introduce ourselves to them and that we did some other “incorrect things”. I think they feel jealous; perhaps they think we are the “new” teachers or that we are invading their territory. It is a shame that we can’t have a relationship with them as professionals, to learn from them, since it is said that no any teacher enters to work there, only good and recommended teachers. From now on we have to use a ID card to let everybody know we are practitioners there!
However, the three teachers I work with have treated me very well. One of them takes the hour I give the class for free and is not in the classroom. The other two are in the class helping me. There is one teacher who introduces me every day I go and claps at the end of my class.:-) That has helped me a lot since students get motivated.
Hello, this is my experience about the practice:
ReplyDeleteI found very interesting the difference among the educational programs that the CIDEB offers. This High School has 3 programs: Progressive, Bilingual, and International.
Being in a different educational program means having a different Student Profile; therefore, it can be concluded that according to these profiles we can make some inferences about the students.
At the beginning, I thought that such differences among the students of the different programs would be subtle, but actually they were very noticeable. We cannot generalize; it is true that students have a tendency to behave in one way or another though.
Students from the Progressive program were chosen from the students with the highest grades in public Junior High Schools, and even though they lack competence in English, in general they are very willing to participate and learn.
The Bilingual program is composed basically by students from private schools, their level of English is very good; however, their attitude is sometimes a little difficult to deal with. Students from the International program have both a good attitude and willingness to learn, but I think that the most remarkable trait they posses in their self-learning ability: they are very independent and they can work on their own with excellent results.
As I previously mentioned, we cannot generalize and say that all of the students behave in a certain fashion; there are many exceptions in the seven classrooms I practice. This experience is showing me the importance the Student Profile, and how differences in socio-cultural background can be portrayed in the classroom.