The Class
There
was different kind of students in the movie. Teacher had different techniques
to deal with the variety in the class. He was trying to make jokes to motivate
the students and trying to care about the level of the students when he and
another teacher were talking about the book they have to choose for the lesson.
When the students didn’t like something in the lesson, he was asking for their
suggestion. He was trying to motivate students by encouraging them in the thing
they are interested instead of punishing. Nevertheless, he was sarcastic to the
students occasionally, which could decrease the motivation of the students. He
was also not impatient enough with the students. He was rude to the students
instead of keeping calm when the students were rude to him.
The
students were teenagers which was a challenge for the teacher. The students
think that they are mature enough to do whatever they want. The second
challenge was they had different backgrounds because of it was difficult for
students to understand each other.
I
would like to relate the movie to the group work. Students were studying
individually during the class. They didn’t have any group task and activity. A
group task could be good to make them to know each other as there were new students
in the class in the beginning of the semester. Also, they could understand each
other better, if they would have to work together and see view point of the
others. However, the organization of the tables was in pairs and this can lead
students to work in pairs. Sometimes they were asking to each other about the
things they didn’t know so it was a good way of learning. They also could learn
from each other in this way.
I
also would like to focus on Esmeralda. She was a teenager who has her own opinion.
She was hardly affected by the others but she also was so passionate on her
opinion. I would like to relate her behaviours to the identity. There were a
lot of different identities in the class. Each of the students had different
identities. One of the students named Arthur was trying to defence himself
against to criticism about his appearance. Arthur had a different personal
identity and Esmeralda was insulting him because of his personal identity. The
same happened with Wei, he said Austrian as a word that he couldn’t understand
and Esmeralda insist on the common knowledge of the word Austrian. It was a
negative attitude to his personal identity, again. Our communicative
interactions help us to establish an identity. It can change in many ways
during our whole life. Esmeralda’s opinion about the others was a criticism
about their identities and she was not aware of the varieties of identity. She
was thinking her identity is the only one and she usually didn’t respect the
others.
