"The Class"

     

 This movie was entitled “The Class” and the main character of the movie was Mr. Francis Marin, who is teaching on one of the public school in France. The movie shows on how the teacher handles a class and how they manage different attitudes of their students.

                As a teacher we must know how to manage different types of students. We think what are the best methods/ strategies that we can apply with that kind of students. In this kinds of students like who named Esmeralda. She is a kind of girl that always made a debate with Mr. Marin, she have a brilliant mind and she was very confident with her ability that leads to het boastfulness. She always admits that she is better than her teacher. Khumba is very talkative in the class she did not listen when her teacher speak in front. One time Khumba called her teacher to read but she did not obey her teacher. That’s why she made an argument with Mr. Marin. Soleymane is a kind of student who has no interest with his study because he has a broken family. He always get into trouble in their classmates and to the other people who around him. Even to his teacher he did not respect. Mr. Marin always complains with his bad attitudes. Wei is the most behave in the class and he is a smart person. His problem is his silent behavior.

                If we can encounter this type of students in the future, what will you do? As a teacher we must know how to handle a class and we know about the classroom management. Before having a class orients your students first regarding the policies in the class. It is a one way that the students should know their limitations. Before you start your proper class you must conduct a pre-test exam so that, you should know where to focus your lessons and to know their capabilities.

                 In the last scene of the story, I noticed that the teacher having deficiency in the application of method and strategy. Handling different race and culture is not easy for the teacher, as well as the students. One of the students of Mr. Marin told him that “I have learned nothing” If I were a teacher, I don’t let the students to interact disrespectfully instead I impose discipline that makes the students become more effective in the class. Teacher also, focused the students who are poor in the class and motivate them to become a successful one. Because performance of the teacher reflects on the students achievements.

"Art of Questioning"

                                      

        One of the methods of teaching used was questioning. Questioning is an intrapersonal communication of a teacher and the students. It is developing social and democratic skills and ideals. Question are used to serve a wide range of function; these are to stimulate pupils to think, motivate pupils, diagnose pupil difficulties, discover pupils interests, help pupils/ students organize and evaluate, aid pupils to relate pertinent experiences to the lesson, focus pupils attention on the key points of the lesson, develop new appreciations and attitudes, provide drill or practice, show relationships, encourage application of concepts and encourage pupils evaluation.

In questioning, there are charateristics of questions these are: Cognitive Memory Questions these require pupils to reproduce facts as rote memory or selective recall;Convergent Questions these require pupils to recall information that leads to correct answer; Divergent Questions these require pupil’s to generate their own data on a given topic; and last the Evaluation Questions these requires pupils to make value judgments about the quality, correctness or adequacy of information. 

                As a future teacher, we must know the characteristics of a good question, the techniques of questioning, as well as the techniques of handling pupil’s responses and questions.

"Classroom Management"

                 

         Classroom Management as the administration or direction of activities with special references to such problems as discipline, democratic techniques use and care of supplies and reference materials, the physical, features of the classroom and the social relationship of pupils. The teacher in the classroom is an actual manager because the class cannot function well without the teacher. The success of all activities in the classroom depends on the teacher ability on how they manage the class.

      Classroom management includes operation and control of activities a well-mange class is conductive to mental growth and development. Learning becomes interesting and enjoyable. He/she can teach effectively only when conditions around him are good. Pleasant surrounding makes good thoughts and inspires both teacher and pupils to do their best. The teacher and his pupils together can plan how to make their room attractive. Some rooms are better looking than others because of the fine taste of the teachers and pupils.

"Laboratory Method"

The Laboratory Method is a set of firsthand learning activity such as: investigate problem, conducts experiments, observes processes, and applied theories in a simulated setting.

The laboratory method as a teaching procedure dealing with firsthand experience regarding materials or facts obtained from investigation or experimentation. In experimentation, observation, or application by individuals or small group dealing with actual materials. It is applied in laboratory method.

There are two types of laboratory method, the experimental and the observational. The experimental aim to train pupils in problem solving with incidental acquisition of information and motor skills. The emphasis is on discovery original procedure, analysis, and solution of problems. In the observational type, the acquisition of facts is the dominant aim of method. Facts can be acquired through activities such as exhibits, watching demonstration, listening to lecture. They can learned their own experiment and observational.

"The Seminar"

                The seminar group is a deliberative body looking for the solution to the problem from the evidence based on readings, experiences, and minds of its participants. In conducting a seminar of course, they have an speaker who lead in the seminar. And that speaker must knowledgeable about the topic that he/she going to discuss in a group. It is better when the speaker have more knowledge about the subject matter and he/she knows the topic well.

"Learning Module as Instructional Materials"

 A module is a self-learning kit which usually consists of package of learning activities, usually papers that have to be accomplished by the students. Module is needed of the students because they can work at their own pace, assume responsibility for learning, to find that textbook are not only the source of learning and encourage the students to master the module. For the teacher module is very important because they have time to pay attention to individual learning problems, they can identify problems earlier, they are free to serve as resources persons to answer question and to help those who need help and it is better cooperation between teachers and students.

Since a module involves self-study the students need self-discipline to work toward mastering a module. Preparing a module is not an easy task. Teacher may also find it hard to change the traditional role they are familiar to.  The teacher also has to be on the alert most of the time since the students are encouraged to ask questions.

There are twelve (12) components of a module learning namely: title, target population, overview, objectives, instruction to the learners, entry behavior and prerequisites skills, pretest, pretest feedback and evaluations, learning activities, post-test feedback and evaluation. These components of a module must be found in module.

"Postscript: Some Random Thoughts on Demonstration"

One of the common methods in teaching, which is most efficient to use in teaching, is Demonstration.There are many important points to tackle in this type of methods in teaching but if you use this method without dividing it, you will run your demonstration learning a lot a little. Because it will be too long to show and they will simply forget it. The best way to do is to divided it into two, first you must show them the step by step procedures then after that let them experience it with the guidance of the instructor. The demonstration method task is just not to let the student learned but also they can be a demonstrator in the future.

In demonstration, there are important things to remember, the one thing is “Do not hurry your demonstration”. The second one is “Assume that your audience has no knowledge in your topic or zero knowledge to get the results of demonstration.

Demonstration is not efficient if you just hurry it and not clearly taught them. But it will be the best method if you follow the right way of demonstrating.