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[Jizzo T. Clown]

I was wondering what would happen if instead of spending days/weeks prepping the students for a demo class, we just put together a lesson plan and have a "normal class."

You know, without the kids reading class objectives from a projector screen that we never use, knowing the answers to every question, knowing exactly who is to "volunteer," etc...

Has anyone ever done this, or would my CT not let me get away with something so *revolutionary* ??

Seems to me that GPOE needs to see what a real classroom is like...not this rehearsed sh*t they see at every other demo.

[Alyallen]

Well for me, we didn't have a full on rehearsal. We only explained to the students how to play the game before hand, so we didn't cut into teaching time with the explanation. I also work at a school affiliated with the education class, so I have taught many classes in front of future teachers and staff members from my school without a rehearsal....

It sucks. The kids freeze up and don't participate nearly as much. So the fakery does serve a purpose, I suppose...

[Mr. BlackCat]

I hope you've been in Korea long enough to have noticed that substance usually has little value compared to appearance. Hence, these fake classes aren't about showing what really happens in the classroom, they're about putting on a presentation. The parents know it, the officials know it, you know it. They want to see what can happen if you prep these kids like heck rather than what spontaneous learning looks like. It gets them better prepared for life in Korea. Then they can be good little Korean workers who are at the office for 12 hours looking busy without ever actually getting anything done. It's a skill and you need to start teaching it to them.

[jaderedux2]

That is normally what I do. Stopped doing the dog and pony show after my 1st year. What they see is what I normally do. The only difference is we print the handouts on good paper not the "wood-chips" floating about paper.

I refuse to dance and sing and do stuff I normally don't do. A good number of the teachers do this in our little burg do the same revolt amongst the masses. More honest and less stress.

Jade

[bosintang]

[rockstarsmooth]

jizzo, i i did exactly that last week. my coteacher and i worked for a few weeks on the lesson, the class we did it with had lots of in-class prep as far as the relevant language goes, but we didn't rehearse with them. we did do a run-through with another class, but that's it. it was a normal class, as normal as it gets when you have an audience, use the power point, and are micced. we did explain to the class how to do the activity beforehand, just to save time during the actual class.
people liked it, they said it felt very natural and that we seemed to be comfortable as a group. they liked our activities too.
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