is there any subject I can use to teach...... ?

[argemiro amaya buelvas]

I am a university English teacher from Colombia. I am keenly interested in showing my students how different real life teaching is, in terms of facing predicaments in practical teaching.

I just wonder if there is any possible subject to be proposed to the sfatt and coworkers. If so, please, any suggestion?

please any information would be truly appreciated.

argemiro amaya buelvas

Thanks

[Sally Olsen]

I find I am very confused and don't really know what you want to teach or how. Could you make it a little clearer or give me an example? I would hope that everything you teach is useful in real life. I must admit that I have never needed geometry or the higher math that I studied in school but at least I found out that I wasn't good at it or didn't enjoy it. If I had never studied it, I wouldn't have known. What do you consider "real life"?

[argemiro amaya buelvas]

What I just want you to think about is if there is any expecific subject
on preparing university students to face indicipline problems, or just dealing with troublesome students in the classrooms or giving them some clues, ideas, tips or simple orientations about how to manage difficult situations.

[Sally Olsen]

There are a lot of books on this subject. However, as with most things, the real life experience is never the same. The thing about teaching though is that all of us have been students for at least 12 years and in the case of teacher's, four years more in most cases, for our teaching degree. We have seen how our fellow students have behaved and how we felt about that and how the teachers coped with them. (I am presuming, probably falsely, that if you get to teacher's college or university courses in teaching, you have conformed somewhat to the system). I think it might be important to set up a situation, perhaps by showing them a video ( there are many situations shown in movies about difficulties that teachers have with students) and get the students to tell you or write about a similar situation they have experienced and how it was handled. Sharing these experiences will bring out many ideas of how to cope and what really worked and what was destructive. We all tend to do what we are taught and although we might regret doing something that we know is wrong, when it comes down to the crunch we might do it automatically without thinking carefully first. It might help the future teachers to think about strategies before these thing happen so that they can be more reflective when their time comes.

[argemiro amaya buelvas]

Dear sally,

I just have to say thank you for your advice about the video, I had not thougth about it.

guess what? I'm just planning to interview some teachers from different primary, high schools and university ones to ask them
share their frequently predicaments and their possible solutions. Later, I would show those interviews to my university students.
Of course, I would previoly ask my students to think about a possible solutionto each indicipline problem.

thank you

p.s. try to be in touch

my e-mail : [email protected]

[Sally Olsen]

Sounds great. Not many professors give students this type of preparation. I guess if we were able to teach the lessons as the professors propose they would be so exciting and uplifting and useful that the students would never misbehave. But we live in the real world so your exercise will no doubt be useful.
Good luck.