This French movie the class describes the relationship between students and teachers, most of the scenes from this movie is taken inside the classroom, because this movie shows on how to handle students specially the students of the other country with different personalities, behavior, nationality, beliefs and culture.

                The movie mostly focused on how Mr. Marin deals with his class that has students with different races and influences, I can really say that every time and everyday that he inters his class he struggles with his students specially those students who are very disrespectful specially Esmeralda and Khumba, they are sit mates and friends and they always interrupt every time Mr. Marin discuss his lessons, they are showing disrespect, they are whispering, they are laughing and doing some other stuffs. The other student who also shows disrespect with Mr. Marin is Souleymen hi is an Islam, he always makes things that will make the classroom discussion interrupted and quarrel with his classmates that has good concentration and focused and sometime he uses his hand to hurt his classmates, even though most of the students show disrespect to Mr. Marin there is still a student who is respectful he is Wei, he is usually very quiet, he is always smiling and he is intelligent and he is a Chinese.

                Mr. Marin had done everything to handle his students, he manage the class well , he uses effective methods of teaching that will make his students learn, he entertains questions and explains well when there is something that his students doesn’t understand, he motivates his students and appreciates them to boast their confidence, but the problem is on the students who are very disrespectful, noisy and don’t want to listen to each other because of their differences that they need a very understanding an patience teacher like Mr. Marin.

                The statement that made me wonder and think is the statement of one student that was told   to Mr. Marin by his student at the end of the year “ I didn’t Learn Anything” in the future  if I will be told by my student the same statement, I think I will ask myself what is the matter with me or my style of teaching and my method then I will ask my student what is the reason why he/she doesn’t learn anything then through my students answer I will find ways where  to begin the changes and improvements for my teaching.

Postscript – Some Random Thoughts on Demonstration

         Demonstration this is a method of teaching in which teachers perform certain activity that learners will imitate. In Demonstrating we must always keep in our mind that we must get and sustain the interest of our audience our demonstration must be clear, focused yet simple, and the most important thing is that we must not hurry our demonstration specially when there are too many important things to be discussed so that we can impart full knowledge to the learners, because when we hurry on demonstrating things we are not actually demonstrating we are just presenting and the worst thing is our learners heard a lot but learn a little. That is why on demonstration we must always bare in mind that even though our learners have a little bit experience on things that we are going to demonstrate but still we must assume that they does not have any knowledge or skill so that our demonstration would have a great result.  

The Art of Questioning

In teaching learning process questioning is important because it is one way of having conversation with the learners and in that you can measure or you will know what  have they learn from the teachers, it is stated that a good teaching also involves good questioning.

In questioning we must consider its types like question that is according to the thinking process and from low level to high level questions, to the type of answers that is needed and the degree of the exploration and values of persons.

Questions have descriptive categories they are The cognitive Memory question this is rage in the low level of questioning because it is just simply recalling things learned, The Convergent Questions this still belongs to the low level questioning because still recalling information that will lead to correct answer, The Divergent Questions this question is in the high level because it encourages students to think and this is applicable to essay type questions the last is the Evaluation which is still on the high level because it requires student to apply their critical thinking and value judgment to answer. A good question is simple, clear, definitive and adaptive to the age, abilities and interest of the learners.

Classroom Management

Classroom Management is a very important thing in teaching and handling learners because we are all aware of the different abilities, attitudes and behavior of the learners. There are approaches that will help teachers in handling classroom management the first approach is the assertive approach this is specific to orientation of the rules and regulations of the classroom and the consequences for disobeying the rules, the second approach is the Business Academic Approach this approach is on organizing and managing students as they engage in academic work, in this approach the teacher must have clear communication with the students specially the standards of the assignments and projects and their absents, this also includes the monitoring of the learners and the feedback of the learners. The third approach is the behavioral Modification approach in this approach teachers must understand the causes of the behavior of learners like what kind of environment they have in their community and their home that shaped them then motivation is applied if there is something that needs to be changed in learners behavior.

Group Managerial Approach this approach is observing the behavior of learners in responding to group and present any problems that might occur specially on the behaviors of the learners.

In classroom management the classroom environment is also needs to be considered the physical environment of the classroom, its intellectual climate and emotional climate that suits to the learners level, the social climate and the emotional climate that meets very learners behavior and personality.

A classroom that has good classroom management is conducive for learning and mental health, learning also becomes interesting and enjoyable under favorable working conditions.

The Seminar

     

      Seminar this way usually happens in a groups and the purpose of this one is to inform, to solve problems or enhance skills and abilities. In preparing a seminar we must consider the topic that will be discussed, the mastery of the facilitator or the speaker of the topic and the skill the speaker that will guide throughout the seminar.

Methods of Teaching

                 Methods of teaching is one of the important element of teaching-learning  process and the choice of teaching method that teachers used depends largely on the information or skill that is being taught and may  also be influence by the students performance.

                The inductive method is the process of learning that starts from what is already known to what needs to be known the utilization of this method has 5 steps the preparation, presentation, comparison and abstraction, generalization and application.

                The Deductive Method is reverse of the inductive in which lessons starts from the specific cases then ends to the wholeness of the cases or study. Deductive Method has four steps the statement of the problem, Generalization, Inference and Verification.

                Project Method this is the practical unit of activity of learners involving the use of physical materials to complete the unit of experience the steps of project method are purposing, Planning, Executing and Evaluating.

Laboratory Method this method of teaching is teaching the learners to investigate problems and conduct experiments in a place called laboratory. This method offers opportunities the learners to get real experiences this also increase the learners interest and provide actual participation in developing the learners skills in using the laboratory equipments.

The Problem method this method is investigating only one case which is common and learners are studying the case exhaustively.

Lecture Method this is the usual way or method that is used in teaching because as I can see this is the simplest method to be performed and because most of the lessons that is being taught is best learned when it is explained by the teachers. This method has two types the Formal an Informal the formal Lecture is that teachers presenting lessons in the class is not interrupted and questions are entertained at the end of the lecture while the informal lecture is that along the way of the lecture conversation between teachers and learners are allowed.

Demonstration Method this method of teaching is simply showing learners what to do and learners just imitate the teachers in demonstration we must get and sustain the interest of our learners, it must be simple and clear, we should not hurry our demonstration and it is important that we must give written materials after our demonstration.

Metacognition Teaching Method this method is teaching the learners to become aware of and control their learning through metacognition process. The steps in metacognition process are planning, deciding, monitoring, evaluating and terminating.

Different Types of Lessons

                

                There are different types of lessons these are developmental lesson, supervised study lesson, review lesson, drill lesson, appreciation lesson and application lesson.

                Developmental lesson is a type of lesson to be learned in which there is new idea presented and then developed, there are two types of developmental lesson the formal which utilizes the deductive and inductive methods then the informal which uses the question and answer or conversational approach. In this type of lesson learners feel satisfaction because they are learning the activities independently.

                Supervised Study Lesson this is the lesson in which the teacher is giving the learners topic to study then the teacher is the one who is supervising under the direction and guidance of the teacher.

                Review Lesson this is the kind of lesson which the teacher is reviewing the past lessons and practice this lesson so that it will be mastered by the students or the students will deeply understand it.

                Drill Lesson this lesson is applicable in the outdoor activities because this develops the performance and the degree of particular skills learners possess, the guidelines to be observed in the drill lesson are motivation, focalization, repetition and attention and application.

                Appreciation Lesson this is the lesson where learners appreciate the lessons that was presented in a way of letting them to work their self to appreciate the lesson more.

                Application Lesson this is the lesson of applying whatever the learners learned in the classroom discussions, this type of lesson is used in the practicums and problem solving.