For my intermediate classroom observation I decided to
observe Priya Jerry's listening class. After collecting the homework Priya
handed back a previous listening log activity. She goes over the mistakes that
a majority of the class made and encourages the students to use complete
sentences when responding. She then introduces the new chapter on Jobs on pg.
18. She warns the class over and over again that for their next activity we
must be sensitive to cultures from other countries, that way they can have a
debate following the clip. The video was on a woman in the Middle East with a license.
Though the video emphasized that people stop her because she is a woman, she
seems more to get stopped because she is going too fast in the first place in
my opinion. After the video the students group off into partners to discuss “should
women be allowed to hold the same jobs as men”. During this discussion the
teacher circulates the class to encourage differing opinions. No one is to have
an opinion without a reason behind it. She does a very good job of keeping her
own opinions to herself. When the class reconvenes the teacher asks those that
agree that women should hold the same jobs stand on the right side of the room,
those who disagree stand on the left. Out of the twenty people in this class,
only three people stood on the right side. Ironically, out of the four girls in
the class, only two are on the right. The nationalities of those on the right
were, Korean, Chinese, and Brazilian. One of my conversation partners Heelee is
in this class and was standing on the right side. She said, “The ability should
discern the task, not the sex”. This was a very interesting class. After this
activity they moved on to similar questions such as, “should men wear pink” or “is
it ok for men to be house husbands”. They ended with a recording of a news
article on the job market population of men vs women. The questions that they
did not finish were held off till the next day.
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