Blinder touches Elephant

Blinder touches Elephant but she is touching only a part, anyway. But she must be trying to find the best part to understand the elephant.

Every single studies and thinking is constituting my teaching.

Referential questioning is based on student's background knowledge.

In interaction between teachers and learners, they have to be in rapport with each other. ( it means learning motivation in another words)

teacher's talk includes greetings, compliments, questions, refusals, initiations, feedbacks, closings ....

Classroom Interactional Competence - it is focused on confluence more than fluency.
                                                                                        ( similar to interact)

cooperative principle - Attitude to interact with learners

Proper Discourse structure - Learner's personalized, individualized talking.

making questions by using " Whose "

I am teaching 5th unit,"Whose cap is this?" .
Since we went through lots of activities, kids were used to "Whose .....? " , "It's mine/ ours ...." ,
I wanted to try another ways to use "Whose...? " , more than simple like "Whose cap is this?", (because of the effect of Critical pedagogy class? I don't know.. haha...)

Today, I let them to make questions by using
"Whose" , that everyone think that it is ours, but that we usually don't think deeply,
First , I gave them a question , "Whose Dokdo is this ? " , Koreans usually says "It's ours" , Japanese says "It's ours"

They think these questions ...
"Whose nature is this ? "
"Whose east sea is this ? "
"Whose Bal hae ( which is controversial issue between Korea & China ) is this ? "
" Whose 직지심체요절 (the book, which is the pressed by metal type for the first time in Korea but France has it, now ) is this ? "
"Whose school is this ? "
one student said " Whose air is this ? "
....
At last , arising memorial day in this month, thinking about the ownership of our country.

They are brilliant than I think !

space observation “Lecture(Class) room " Chloe & Jason

1. What is central / peripheral ?

- central : black board , chairs for students , desks for students , computer, projection TV

- peripheral : windows , trash box, corner , mirror , bookshelves, cabinets ...

 

2. How is this place filled ? / How does space feel ? ( Jason and I got the question in 2 ways )

- filled : desks, chairs, blackboard, TV, computer, light bulb, distinguisher, clock, blind

- feel : framed , silent, calm, formal, rational , ...

 

3. What are you supposed to be in here?

- studying , no running , no mess up , being attentive, concentrating , being gentle, being decent ....

 

 

4. interactions & encounters

- Teacher or proffessor give a lecture and students learn or discuss each other.

- Some times student demonstrate and present.

- Even students they fight each other, but they usually have a good relationship with friends.

- It is very stable comparing to other places.. teachers and students stay together for a long time, not with new acquaintances.

 

5. What couldn’t be not happen in here?

Students here should not fight, yell, condemn, ignore other friend and throw out the trash on the floor.

Implication of Post-structure feminism - PSY Gentlemen

Two Questions from PSY's "Gentlemen"

 

1. He is teasing girls.  How does this video reproduce dominant ideas of gender ?

( Girls are weak , crying after boys are teasing,  Boys are naughty ? )

  Can you think of reverse - girls are making fun of boys in the video?

2. "Gentleman"

How do you define "Gentleman" in his video ?

What do you have in mind about the word "Gentleman" ?  Is it same with that in this video ?

How does this challenge dominant ideas about gentleman & gender ?

Lesson plan for critical thinking

 

Object : We can say "pretty talking" .
Time	Teacher	Student	Material
10’	Fairy tale "Paper bag princess" ·Why princess say "No" ? ·What do you think prince's problem ? ·Is princess changed? Is she bad because she is ugly?	·She disappointed to prince because he asked her to change clothes and be clean ·He judged princess by appearance. ·No, She isn't changed. She is still same altough she became dirty (they can also say in Korean)	E-book
	※ Today, we will talk about "pretty face , pretty mind", at last we can say "Pretty talking"
9’ 5’ 10’	·Presenting many faces (Face with Big eyes, small eyes, long hair, short hair, slim, fat, white skin, dark skin, sharp nose, big mouth... ) ·Let’s divide pictures into two parts- Pretty(Handsome) or Ugly by groups ·Write the features of Pretty & Handsome people. ·Write the features of Ugly people. ·Let's Watch the video (bullying because of appearance) ·What's the problem? ·What's the pretty mind ? ·Let's think about pretty talking When you hit your friends by soccer ball accidently When your partner lend you a glue in art class. When friends fall down during relay running. When your friends said " Brian in this photo is funny looking, let's upload on internet	·Talk which face is pretty & Handsome face ·Divide pictures into 2 parts. ·blonde hair, long hair, big eye, white skin, sharp nose, earings, good fashion... · small eyes, Fat, Dark skin, pig nose, dirty, short, big head... · They are bullying one friend because she is ugly. ·Pretty talking / pretty thinking / pretty acting .... I'm sorry Thank you Are you okay? Let's not do.	10 pictures (ppt, paper)
6’	·Pretty talking ·Let's say pretty talking. Get friends' signature. It's your homework	I'm sorry/ Thank you/ Are you Okay? / Let's not do / Can I help you?

solutions for problems..

There is diverse level of students in class. It is not easy to deal with them, some of them struggle to understand or form quite basic sentences.

- Critical thinking is difficult to me, not to mention students.
I think they definitely need Korean to think and communicate with others. and they need time to express to English. First we should give them materials to understand easily (pictures or video clips)
although they don't know English well, and then we have to give them key phrase words (not a sentence) and let them tell in Korean. Give them time to write answer- mind map maybe good way to organize their thinking, teacher should help student how to think words in English.

Thoughts on gentleman by PSY.

PSY is very famous Korean singer. Lots of people have seen his music video. "Gentleman"
His music video can be very powerful media. Students, too. My students also like PSY, and his new song "Gentleman"

But in his lyrics, there are some sentences that are unpleasant to me. ( Because of my job-teacher?)


알랑가 몰라 왜 미끈해야하는건지
알랑가 몰라 왜 쌔끈해야하는건지
....

있잖아 말이야
너의 머리 허리 다리 종아리 말이야
Good! feeling feeling? Good! 부드럽게 말이야
아주 그냥 헉소리나게 악소리 나게 말이야
Damn! Girl! I’m a party mafia!

 In English,
I don't know if you know why it needs to be waxy
I don't know if you know why it needs to be sexy
...
Hey there Your head, waist, legs, calves
Good ! Feeling feeling Good! It's soft.
I'll make you gasp. I'll make you scream
Damn! Girl! I’m a party mafia!

If an ordinary people says these, it would be less problem. But it is PSY. Many Koreans search this lyrics. I think it is a kind of streotyping ideals of people, especially women(because in the movie, womens wearing bikinis and they are very good shape). we think people should be sexy, waxy....
Songs put emphasis on extrinsic factors-beauty of extrinsic.
Not only this song, many songs too.
And it is issue that young teenage idols competitvely appeal sexy icons.
Who concetrate on these young teenages? , also young Students.
Especially young students can follow this imagery without critical thinking, adults too.
It's very dangerous thing.

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Is this sexual harassment? How does Psy reproduce or question  "gender relations" ,"women" to me, to my students ?