Wed, 13 May 2009
Engaging and Managing Students in the English Language Classroom.
I think my favourite part of the session was when one of the speakers emphasised the need to cater to diverse learners in a forum where:
- the attendance was compulsory – we had no say about whether we wanted to go for the forum or not,
- the speakers were not all that diverse – their views and backgrounds all converged upon a central point, and
- the topic was not something that seemed to engage the audience – it seemed to me that the audience really wanted to talk about policy issues, but that option does not seem to be offered anywhere in our ‘enrichment’.
The ****** guy was annoying and living in a bubble lah. He thinks by talking animatedly and smiling a lot we will be convinced of what his inexperience and inability produces.
Not to say that he does not have any good points at all, just that I don’t think there were any yesterday.
Especially hate that “proudest moment of your teaching career”. Man did that fall flat on his buck-toothed face. Ha! Ha! Ha. Ha.
Let me guess – my psychic abilities tell me that you were sitting somewhere in the… first few rows? On the… right-hand side of the LT?