Visiting Har-Ber High School

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Visiting Har-Ber High School


This short visiting to the school helped us to see that many things will happen during a class. An interesting point was how teachers had arranged their classrooms. For example, students were sitting in groups of three students in all the five classrooms that we visited. However, I also noticed that many classrrom, students have a translator, so students did not worry about using dictionary to understand what their teachers were explaining.   Also,  students were priced with a candy for answering. I think candy will be changed instead they will get points or stars.

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  1. Good observations, Carlos!

    You noticed that Ss often sat in groups, and this week we talked about making groups. Did you think that the Ss at Har-Ber utilized the groups well? Or, perhaps a better question might be this: Do you think the Ts at Her-Ber used the groups well? Why and/or why not?

    What did you think of the translators? I honestly haven't seen that kind of assistance in most classrooms in the past, so that was a little surprising to me. I still don't know what I think about it. Obviously, it would assist communication, especially if behavior is a problem, but I wonder if it hurts the Ss' motivation to learn and use English. Actually, the question I wonder about most right now is whether there were rules about how or when the translators could and couldn't translate. The next time I go to Har-Ber, I think I need to ask that Q.

    Why would you change the candy prize?

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