unit 4 the balance of power

UNIT 4 THE BALANCE OF POWER

                        The notion that the balance of power in the classroom needs to change is new and unsettling, it mostly focused on teacher- centered and student-centered teaching aproach. Every teacher knows how to categorize each one of our students some of them are empowered, others are self-motivated because they work with genuinely, but the bad aspect here is that students now are anxious and tentative.  They start classes with the idea of having easy tasks but that is not the main focus from the majority of teachers. It is something in general, but for many students education is something that happen to them, and most of the time they feel obligated to study Furthermore, in this chapter it talks about some activities and assignments in which teacher allow students to select the assignment that they would like to work on. At this point, Weimer Maryellen says that “students are welcome to add assignments, exchange assignment or do fewer assignments as the course progress.”   (Maryellen, 2013) She also establish that students work using an absolute grading standard and I agree with her since some students who get a low grade feel bad when for example any assignment is over 20 and “the best student” get a 19 or 20 and “the unlucky student “who works less that the “intelligent one” get a 5 lets suppose obviously he or she is going to feel frustrated. So if there is grading assignment for example grading them with bands like for the TKT examination the difference is not going to be so big. In this case I would like to encourage my students to select the assignment they want to work on, obviously after I give the general topic, structure and rules they have to work on but not all the time. in this way there is going to be balance because i will accept ideas  and suggestions from my students, so they will not feel subestimated by the teacher.

Images related to the equality of teachers and students

 teacher´s 50% input and student´s 50% input

video about teacher- centered and student-centered teaching aproach

Bibliography:

Maryellen, W. (2013). learner centered teaching five key changes to practice.

Other resourse

5.1 Teacher-centered and Student-centered Teaching Methods

En el texto: (YouTube, 2015)

Bibliografía: YouTube, (2015). 5.1 Teacher-centered and Student-centered Teaching Methods. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_nfUNDCP1M [Accessed 24 Apr. 2015].