"The Class"

Watching at the movie “The Class” I have pondered that it is not easy to become a teacher because for me if I don’t know how to handle the class or I don’t know how to discipline the students I am just teaching in the classroom with no students inside and it is useless.

Mr. Francois Marin a supervisor at the same a teacher. His strategies/methods of teaching are; lecture, hands-on exercises, self-portrait/oral reading, and etc. Mr. Marin encounters different behaviors with his students. I t is not easy for him to deal with those students, therefore, as his strategy in manging conflicts is first he exercise his patience so that what every consequences it may come he is ready to face it. He entertain all the questions of his students even there were some question are very personal and offensive but he tried to answer very calmly. He gave his students freedom to express their own thoughts and opinion in everything. And he gives a follow-up answer or comments to the student who raises the question or opinion. He gave some challenging activities like self-portrait. For his students that kind of activity is very nonsense because they are not used to open their personal matters in the public. But the only purpose of Mr. Marin is to make his students out of their shelves and try to make his students to lift-up and develop their self-esteem. And make them to realize that each of them is very special because of the uniqueness kind they has. Made them to realized their importance as a person exists in this world, believe their capabilities and talents. There were students like Wei a Chinese citizen made Mr. Marin happy because of his being a good and intelligent student.

When there was student who has a very unkind attitude during his class hour and its name was Khoumba. The student makes him bothered in that moment. The way Mr. Marin solves the problem is he called the attention of Khoumba after the class. He was trying to ask the girl why she acts those ways and teach her to learn how to apologize. But, it took a long conversation before the student did what Mr. Marin wants her to do. Here comes another student named Soleymane a hardheaded and a trouble maker student in his class. Due to its deteriorating behavior even Mr. Marin can’t able to stop him. Soleymanesent to the principal and disciplinary committee and sentenced him to drop out in the school.

In teaching profession there were many barricades,challenges, whichtest the capacity of the being an educator just like in the climax point of the story when the semester ends the student says to the teacher that she “learns nothing in his teaching”. A very big issue why the student did not learn even a minute part of the topic he discuss in the class. For me I must be aware of that kind of student, I will use the pre and post-test in order to determine and make sure if the students of mine have gain some knowledge in my teaching.

I am thankful to my instructor like Mrs. Anjie L. Cabahug because I have attained some knowledge from her before the semester ends. She’s agood modelfor me, a good teacher and my shaping director through a better teacherin the future.

“Laboratory Method”

It is the first hand learning activities like investigating problem, conducts experiments, observes procedures, and applied theories in a simulated setting.

Laboratory is normally used in teaching computer lessons. Because in laboratory              there we can actually see and perform the hands-on activity which we can directly know what he teacher discussed. We’re not only listening to the theories but were on the reality of doing the activity in the laboratory area.

“The Seminar”

Seminar is one of the best deliberative body because it is where we look for the solution to the problem of the group. Just like speaker in the seminar, the teacher who’s the one very knowledgeable on the topic he/she discuss. The teacher will go beyond the knowledge what was the topic is in order to answer the question to be thrown to them The teacher also know what kind of listener he/she has so that the topic he/she discuss is suitable to be learned.

“Learning Module”

A module which is defined as a self-contained and independent will of instructing with a primary focus on few defined objectives. I t is tended for individual learning.

                The teacher has the idea on how to make the learners learn effectively because of this module. They can easily identify on what kind of action of activity to be perform to the learners. This kind of instructional materials is very common and useful to the teachers because it is usually used for developing the learners and also to develop the whole country.

“Postscript-Some Random Thoughts on Demonstration”

In demonstration, it must not be in a hurry type. It must be taught in a proper speed and tone in order to make it an excellent demonstration and understandable to the learners They can easily get the point of what you want to extend to them and the skills what you are demonstrating will be meet. If performing demonstration is very fast, there is the possibility that the students or learners will cannot catch-up the lesson or topic. The result is not good, it is serves for nothing and the effort exerted is useless.

"Methods of Teaching"

There are many kinds of teaching methods can be used in making the learners learn significantly. These methods of teaching will serves as a principle used for instruction. Choosing a kind of method depends on the information to be taught to the students. Example of this is the inductive and deductive method. When we say inductive it is the process of learning which from the specific to the general, from the simple to the complex. Like for example the student investigating a particular problem then before comes into the conclusion. While the deductive method is from the general to specific, like for example the students undergo first the conclusion before scrutinizing or knowing its specific.

In line with this method is the demonstration method. It is one of the method that can make the learners learn easily and understand clearly because it is audiovisual kind of learning that can directly seen by the learners most especially if it is followed with an images.