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sister_luckSometimes it's not you, it's them:
Currently I've got a former pupil on placement in some of my lessons. I feel a little ambivalent that she is studying to be an English teacher.. Is it because she wants to do it better than her teachers or did we inspire her with our love for language?
Anyway, she observed the same group twice: Week 1 there was a group of girls who more or less ignored the lesson. There was chatting and the attempt to use nail polish. Instead of doing school work they filled their notebooks with pictures. Week 2 the same girls were attentive and worked hard.
Student teacher was amazed at the change: it wasn't because I had come up with the perfect strategy to engage the girls or because I had offered them interesting material.
Some things are beyond our control, especially the attention spans of teenage girls with troubled backgrounds.
Currently I've got a former pupil on placement in some of my lessons. I feel a little ambivalent that she is studying to be an English teacher.. Is it because she wants to do it better than her teachers or did we inspire her with our love for language?
Anyway, she observed the same group twice: Week 1 there was a group of girls who more or less ignored the lesson. There was chatting and the attempt to use nail polish. Instead of doing school work they filled their notebooks with pictures. Week 2 the same girls were attentive and worked hard.
Student teacher was amazed at the change: it wasn't because I had come up with the perfect strategy to engage the girls or because I had offered them interesting material.
Some things are beyond our control, especially the attention spans of teenage girls with troubled backgrounds.
