The first one we went to was pretty fun with an interesting lesson planned out for the Secondary 1 students. What I thought worked really well was the level of involvement and how engaged the students were. None of them actually used the computer to do non-work stuff like facebook or anything like that for that matter. The competition element also added a certain level of pressure for them to do well by "selling" their idea in a well-thought out manner which I assume is one of the lesson objective.
However, I also believe that the teacher has already built a strong rapport with the class and it shows in the lesson. Her instructions whether casual or serious were taken seriously by the students and rarely was she challenged. Juxtapose this to a rowdy class in a neighbourhood school where students challenge teachers all the time even when simple instructions like, "please keep quiet" are given.
The second class that we went to was a GEP class and honestly, the teacher could have been tad more prepared. One student asked her when was the poem written and all she could say was, "during the WW1 period". In my mind, I was thinking that there will probably be some differences in their understanding of the poem should it be accurately told to them that it was written at the beginning of WW1 or at the end of WW1. Then again, I might be wrong but at that point, the student shot her a seemingly condescending look that read, "You didn't quite answer my question. Sheesh!".
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