1/10/08
3ieme Etage
1 Hour
History (En Francais)
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
- Sexually Charged
- Aggressive
- Very Middle School
- Hard to get focused
ACTIVITIES AND NOTES
1) Activity w/ Maps (test?)
a. Identify Places
i. Create legend
b. Teacher rarely looks up from desk, very trusting → the students are cheating
c. One girl raises hand and does not get called on or looked at
d. The teacher → FIERCE
2) Lecture read from book, and small text given by teacher
a. Students seem to be afraid to answer because the teacher is so aggressive
b. She would be considered a bad teacher in the states because she does not connect or engage her students
c. Passing of notes in class (love it!)
d. No clock in the room, interesting tactics
3) Same activity→ more note taking
a. Very college like w. note taking abilities
i. However students don’t seem to have the ability or skills to take appropriate notes
b. A joke arises from something the teacher says → she laughs for 5 seconds and instantly tells them to “shush”
4) Student make/copy the map the teacher has put on the board