Hello. It was another sweet day with my students. After we entered, and greeted the classroom, every student wanted me to sit with them in both classes.
While with the 7th graders, I realized something. This boy named Berkay has been very eye-catching. I have witnessed he lie and swear in the classroom. And today again, I saw he didn’t care about the class. So this time I sat with him. He didn’t even open his notebook or book and was not taking notes. So I asked him to take notes and participate in the activity assuring that I would help him. The activity was to find seven animals under the categories such as mammals, herbivores etc. During the activity, I realized he had not a bad vocabulary. When it came to the part the teacher asked what they had found, he was a part of the class. He also looked happy and started to show off how he had done the activity by “himself”. So some children really need care and are not into class unless they get it.
The teacher’s grading system is such a system that students can get extra points if they do extra homework. So one of the 7th graders made an extra performance work. The teacher and I had the oppurtunity to examine the student's work. It was full of mistakes and it was obvious that the student made it and not her parents. But still it was also apparent she had problems with the elements of sentence and putting them in order, which I think is a problem that others in the classroom may have, too. So when we were in the next class, it was enough for the teacher only to explain the student her mistakes. However, I'd approach differently. I think this kind of small details can be overcome with the peripheral learning used in the Desuggestopedia method by Lozanov. The sentence construction in English is pretty different from that of Turkish and children are having problems. That's why having small posters around the classroom could be very beneficial. And the posters would be showing sample sentences with some useful marks differentiating the elements. In that way the students could learn something from the environment even if their attention is not directed to it.
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