What counts as ‘correct’ English? Is it that of the BBC or Hollywood? Should it be based on usage or grammar rules? This is an area of intense debate in the English teaching world; something which I don’t think will ever be solved.
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The teacher trainee came in unprepared for class. Two days later, the same scenario. I felt frustration that we had planned this information yet we were not working to the plan. Where was the plan that we had meticulously poured over? My repeated mantra of the past 4 months has been that planning is paramount. My trainee knew that the lesson was not as good as usual.
Van and I have become used to the typical Myanmar lesson. To be perfectly honest, I should widen that to include most classes in most countries. We have not become hardened to it.
Culturally, Myanmar people do not like saying ‘no.’ They do not like to disappoint the other party, and they work in a hierarchy which means that a pupil giving feedback to a teacher is unheard of, unless the feedback is ‘it was great, all great. You are a wonderful teacher!’
The topic was Fleming and his discovery of penicillin. Our teacher trainee brought colored board markers and made characters of anti-bodies, penicillin, red and white blood cells. The students were split into groups to role-play the anti-bodies fighting infection and then penicillin swooping in to save the day.
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