Video Critique Task

For the first video, it is amazing to see such kind of a class. Teacher  teaches them math as if she teaches them a song! They are singing, they are moving, they are talking and no problem occurs while all of these are happening. At the beginning of lesson, teacher reminds the students rules and they talk to their partners and say each and every rule one by one. Besides,  she chooses a student : Julia. And I can see that she is really happy to be a student leader and practice class rules with her peers.  They know what to do and how to behave.  They are active, energetic and self-confident. I was thinking how this could happen in a classroom. They are little, young learners. Before I watched the video, I would think it is almost impossible to manage young learners without setting up harsh rules in classroom. I can see here how effective a teacher can be. She is walking with them, she is doing the same movements with them, she is repeating numbers with them. I mean she is REALLY with them. I am impressed and love that video! Students are always working with their partner and when teacher says to students “ Partner check”, they hold their partner hand and I think it gives them a good feeling and affect them positively. They feel secure. While I was watching the video, I realised that one couple is not doing what teacher says  and she immediately realises that, and takes action, moves to them and touches upon his shoulder and prompts him. Therefore, we can say that she is trying to engage each and every student to activities without forgetting anybody or focusing on only particular stretch  of classroom.

For the second video, the class is extremely crowded. I heard there are fifty students. I always thought that our English classes ,here, in Turkey are too crowded, but now my opinion has changed. Now, it seems that we are partially in better conditions than in China. Desks are too close. Some students are reading a text and I can not really catch each word because they are not reading it loudly enough maybe they lack self-confident,  or maybe it is the normal way that they speak in class. Teacher says somathing and students has to do it although they may not want to be a volunteer for it. This is the case in Turkey, as well.  In addition to all these, what really catches my attention is that students are said to work with a partner, which is expected to consist of  two people, but they are three! And the one who is sitting at the edge cannot engage in discussion, which is something very disturbing for me. Teacher does not do anything about it, and those students can not hear their friends’ talking, so they are sitting on the slideliness. Therefore, when we compare two classes, of course the first one wins!