I share the sentiments of ginny and afiah on the first lesson we observed. they were so cute! like excited little salesmen- i thought they brought out the subtle messages in the advertisements very well: they interpreted the advertisement on their own and explained the meaning to their peers quite eloquently. and the teacher's rapport was obviously there as well. I think her lesson objectives were met- the students seemed to get a good idea of what the words meant and how they were embedded in the messages in the adverts.. like "power", "challenge" and oh dear, i can't remember what else.... but it was a lot of self directed learning on the students' part.
the second class i looked at was the JC class. I was a little bit disappointed with the students behaviour (i expected more from a JC lit class..) they didn't seem to know their text well enough. sometimes, it may have been the case of blind regurgitation from the teacher's lecture notes. however, there were students who tried their best to answer the assigned questions and could point to evidence in the text (particularly the question on "omens" in Tess of the D'Urbervilles where she referred to the crow as an omen, and the painting on the fence). the level of engagement was, OKAY... they took part, but it looked like they were going through a drill and practice session, taking out their notes and trying to answer the questions. i thought they were not able to synthesize their thoughts on the text succinctly enough... that's why i was a bit disappointed because they were supposed to have almost finished the text and have thought through the themes and issues in the text.
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