Today we discussed about emotional part of learning / teaching. We talk about what students bring to school. We learned that students bring to school their emotions and feeling from outside. Those emotions and feeling have a great influence on their learning, but they also have a great influence on teaching.
A very valid point was mentioned as well: students try to "kill" their emotions and do what the school requires. This is unhealthy, but happening in schools throughout the world. Schools "encourage" the students to hide their emotions. Emotions that are not shown can grow big and become a big problem later on (Columbine example).
Applications: 1. As a teacher I should understand my students have emotions and I should allow them to show their emotions. 2. As a parent, I should teach my children what is appropriate when, however I should let them show their emotions, of course in acceptable way (Dr. Andy's example about his sons: one is angry and he wants to hit another one. He can't do it of course, but he is allowed to show emotions in another way). 3. As a teacher I should also "free and relax" myself. I should slow down a bit before starting a class. The students will feel it and will respond accordingly.
Dr. Andy and fellow students. I have a question regarding students emotions and how to deal with them and would really appreciate your help.
There is one teacher at my school who picks up on my class, and especially on one of my students. He gets really upset with this teacher and also very emotional. I heard him saying stupid (teacher's name here) and once even something worse. They is my kid (I mean from my homeroom) and I would really like to help him and solve this problem. I would therefore like to ask you what I should do.
Remind me to discuss this in class on three levels: how you can help the child deal with it, whether you can help the teacher (and how to go about it) and when and if admin should be brought (and how to do that). I'd also like to ask you to be prepared to give us a brief overview and key facts and details so we can devote a little time to go over this as a group in a brief case study type approach. Thanks, Dr. Andy
This week we have talked about the Emotion and Feeling. It is really important for teaching and learning. Dr. Andy let students discussed about two questions. First, what do students bring with them before they sit in the class? Second, how do their feeling affect to teaching? . It is normal for students that sometimes come to the class with good feeling and sometimes with bad feeling. If they bring the good feeling with them to the class, it is not bad for us as a teacher or nothing affect to our teaching beside encourage the teaching process run well and reach the goal. Anyway, if they bring the bad feeling with them, they must be not interested in the lesson, not engage in learning, and also might disturb other students in the class. It can cause the trouble in teaching so teacher is hard to reach their objectives that have been set. Other way, teacher should accept their bad feeling and try to find the strategies to solve those problems that happened to them. It means that trying to find the cause that make them have bad feeling, show them that we are caring about them. I think it is better than ignore them.
In the class this week, we talked about what the students bring into the classroom. To me, it was very interesting because it triggers me to re-think the question into my circumstances. "What the workers bring into the workplace". Such question usually happens when we discuss about Organization Cultural shift. Before I go into what applications I got from the class, using educational settings, I generalize such question into What there is in people .....(I'll come back to write again kha)
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Today we discussed about emotional part of learning / teaching.
We talk about what students bring to school. We learned that students bring to school their emotions and feeling from outside. Those emotions and feeling have a great influence on their learning, but they also have a great influence on teaching.
A very valid point was mentioned as well: students try to "kill" their emotions and do what the school requires. This is unhealthy, but happening in schools throughout the world. Schools "encourage" the students to hide their emotions. Emotions that are not shown can grow big and become a big problem later on (Columbine example).
Applications:
1. As a teacher I should understand my students have emotions and I should allow them to show their emotions.
2. As a parent, I should teach my children what is appropriate when, however I should let them show their emotions, of course in acceptable way (Dr. Andy's example about his sons: one is angry and he wants to hit another one. He can't do it of course, but he is allowed to show emotions in another way).
3. As a teacher I should also "free and relax" myself. I should slow down a bit before starting a class. The students will feel it and will respond accordingly.
Thank you,
Marcin
A good overview Marcin, thanks!
Dr. Andy and fellow students.
I have a question regarding students emotions and how to deal with them and would really appreciate your help.
There is one teacher at my school who picks up on my class, and especially on one of my students. He gets really upset with this teacher and also very emotional. I heard him saying stupid (teacher's name here) and once even something worse. They is my kid (I mean from my homeroom) and I would really like to help him and solve this problem. I would therefore like to ask you what I should do.
Thanks for all your help in advance :)
Sorry for the mistake. Of course he is my kid not they is my kid :)
Remind me to discuss this in class on three levels: how you can help the child deal with it, whether you can help the teacher (and how to go about it) and when and if admin should be brought (and how to do that). I'd also like to ask you to be prepared to give us a brief overview and key facts and details so we can devote a little time to go over this as a group in a brief case study type approach. Thanks, Dr. Andy
Name: Nimol
Dear Dr. Andy
This week we have talked about the Emotion and Feeling. It is really important for teaching and learning. Dr. Andy let students discussed about two questions. First, what do students bring with them before they sit in the class? Second, how do their feeling affect to teaching? . It is normal for students that sometimes come to the class with good feeling and sometimes with bad feeling. If they bring the good feeling with them to the class, it is not bad for us as a teacher or nothing affect to our teaching beside encourage the teaching process run well and reach the goal. Anyway, if they bring the bad feeling with them, they must be not interested in the lesson, not engage in learning, and also might disturb other students in the class. It can cause the trouble in teaching so teacher is hard to reach their objectives that have been set. Other way, teacher should accept their bad feeling and try to find the strategies to solve those problems that happened to them. It means that trying to find the cause that make them have bad feeling, show them that we are caring about them. I think it is better than ignore them.
Thanks,
Nimol
Thank you Dr. Andy. I would really appreciate if we can go over thins in a class. I'm sure these things happen so a few of us will surely benefit :)
Thank you,
Marcin
Sorry for late posting again.
In the class this week, we talked about what the students bring into the classroom. To me, it was very interesting because it triggers me to re-think the question into my circumstances. "What the workers bring into the workplace". Such question usually happens when we discuss about Organization Cultural shift.
Before I go into what applications I got from the class, using educational settings, I generalize such question into What there is in people .....(I'll come back to write again kha)
Noot, yes, much of this can be converted into any relevant situation and seeing those connections is very valuable and helpful to us.
Noot, yes, much of this can be converted into any relevant situation and seeing those connections is very valuable and helpful to us.
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