This Week's Class Observation
This week I observed three professors’
seminars. They are Win Win, Anne and Siggy. They have different
characteristics. Win Win is traditional. Anne and Siggy are active and
motivated in class.
What interests me about their seminars is
as follows:
Win Win organized oral discussion in a
variety of methods. In group discussion, she divided the class into two groups
with number one to number one, two to two. In individual discussion, the
student on her birthday started the discussion first. After she finished, she
could have the choice to who would be the next one to discuss.
Anne invited a writer to her
class. The students and the writer had a wonderful time and the students were
actively involved.
Siggy is an excellent teacher. She
organized her class in a smooth way both in content and in process. The seminar
started with students’ presentations about news, idioms and their experiences.
When it came to the topic, the students had a heated discussion. What shocked
me was that the students are so excellent. But I found two students in this
class are not so good. The funny thing about a student was : when she should
say: You are luckier, she couldn’t transfer it into an English way of
thinking. Instead, she thought in a Chinese way and had a word for word
transferance into “You are more cow”( in Chinese “你更牛”). It really didn’t make sense in
English.
I had a wonderful time in observing Siggy’s seminar. Actually education can be fun.
Your comment about education reminds me of my parents-in-law's comment about my relationship with my daughter, "we didn't think to have fun with our children" they said.
回复删除It is indeed a missed opportunity when one forgets the fun.