I watched a class on TV. It was about mood and was mainly led by the teacher. She talked to the students in English first and then translated it into Myanmar language. In my perspective, when a teacher constantly leads the activities, there is less student involvement and they soon become quiet and fed up.
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Our teacher trainee said that he previously thought that teaching was easy and straightforward. Now, he worries each day that he hasn’t planned the lesson correctly and he worries that he isn’t doing a good job of teaching.
With the grade 9 students, if the lesson is engaging, they are motivated to learn. They like talking to me and they are quick to copy phrases I use. They have been presented with a foreigner in their village, and their English textbook has essentially come to life in front of their eyes.
In the winter, the trees bloom white and yellow flowers. As a kid, I loved fighting, playing football and cane ball, and jumping down from the flower trees with my friends. Everyday, the headmaster punished us by hitting us with a long cane on our palms or backs. Sometimes, we got bruised and injured, but we still never lost our smiles.
The head monk asks again what we can do to improve the quality of teaching in the village. I have to give it to him that he is determined and dogged with his agenda. Unfortunately, where there is no motivation, there is no chance of improvement.
With the fresh morning air, I woke up earlier this morning. I prepared breakfast for my elder sister and me. Actually, it was cooler in the early morning than I thought it would be.
“You are not an early bird,” Teacher Chloe said to describe my being late out of bed in the mornings while in the village. As she said, I don’t normally wake up early mornings. But mid-February I woke up at 7:27 am with worries of being late for an appointment.
I decided that I should incorporate training wherever possible by asking the teachers to think critically about how they could use or adapt the activities in their own classrooms. This critical thinking didn’t need to be done in English and therefore was more of an exercise in implementing active learning within the classroom than a test of knowledge.
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