Educational Studies

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.