THE CLASS

Characters:

	François Bégaudeau	...	François Marin
	Agame Malembo-Emene	...	Agame
	Angélica Sancio	...	Angélica
	Arthur Fogel	...	Arthur
	Boubacar Toure	...	Boubacar
	Burak Özyilmaz	...	Burak
	Carl Nanor	...	Carl
	Cherif Bounaïdja Rachedi	...	Cherif
	Dalla Doucoure	...	Dalla
	Damien Gomes	...	Damien
	Esmeralda Ouertani	...	Esmeralda
	Eva Paradiso	...	Eva
	Henriette Kasaruhanda	...	Henriette
	Juliette Demaille	...	Juliette
	Justine Wu	...	Justine
	Rachel Regulier	...	Khoumba
	Laura Baquela	...	Laura
	Louise Grinberg	...	Louise
	Lucie Landrevie	...	Lucie
	Nassim Amrabt	...	Nassim
	Qifei Huang	...	Qifei
	Rabah Nait Oufella	...	Rabah
	Samantha Soupirot	...	Samantha
	Franck Keïta	...	Souleymane
	Wei Huang	...	Wei

The Problem students in the movie are:

       Souleymane – the trouble maker student

       Esabelle – the most talkative student/class representative

       Luise - class representative

     Khoumba – disrespectful student, she never follow what    her instructor told her to do.

Methods of Teaching

     Mr. Marin an instructor of this students teaches his students to be respectful, he listen to all of his students and admire or encourage everyone to do all their assignments, projects and oral recitation. He makes report card of his students as the basis of their behavior in class.  He calls the attention of the parents of his students to evaluate then and to update the parents of what is the status of their child inside the school particularly in the class.  If a student can do bad things inside the class, Mr. Marin brought the students to disciplinary action committee.

How did Mr. Marin Manage or perform classroom management or manage the classroom is, Mr. Marin checks his students to not wear a cup while entering the classroom. He motivates his students to be ready and behave while starting the discussion or even entering the class because if they were talking they were wasting time.  He motivates also his students not only on his subject but also to be respectful to their instructor.  If there will be an activity, the students should participate and also he motivates his students to open so that they will know each other.

What will be your reaction if one of your students will say to you that he/she learned nothing?

                For me, I will be shocked about it and I will ask him/her why he/she can say that thing?  For how many days and months we are discussing inside the class why is it he/she never understands all things we have already tackled.

                Maybe the best thing I can do is to talk to him/her what might be his/her problem.  If I will be a teacher someday and one of my students will say that he/she learned nothing at all, maybe I will say to him/her that I don’t believe him/her.  Because every discussion, there was an evaluation or assessment like quizzes and exams.  And if the student would say that he/she cheated every time I conduct quizzes and exams I will fail him/her or else I will make time to make review for him/her for his/her good if he/she is willing to take review lessons.

                But for me I really bother that thing, because for me it is unbelievable.  Even slow learners understand or learned something even just for a little thing.  The students who confront Mr. Marin at the end of the school year that she learned nothing in all her subjects makes me struggle to understand her situation.  For how many days and months passes by, she never learned about all her lessons even in entering to school.

                As a teacher you can monitor your students if he/she if good or not in your class and you can motivate your students to study the lessons you have already tackled.  So, there are no possibilities that at the end of the school year one of your students will confront you that he/she learned nothing at all even in other subjects.  Maybe that particular student has a problem, that’s why she don’t understand her situation that makes struggle in her emotions.

               

The Classroom Management and Classroom Management

Classroom Management is very important, because you cannot teach if you don’t know how to manage your students.  As a teacher you must have the ability on how to deal or manage your students in order for them to listen your topic you have discussed.  Because some of the students were very noisy, some of them may in and out of your class, some of them may sleep so you must have to manage your students participate on your class.   Classroom management includes operation and control of activities involving details as setting arrangement, attendance, and utilization of instructional materials, classroom courtesies and discipline foresight and planning learning becomes now interesting and enjoyable under favorable conditions.

There are 5 approaches to Classroom Management.

11.)    Assertive approach- this approach expects the teacher to specify rules of behavior and consequences for disobeying them.  The teacher here must motivate and orient rules and regulation inside his/her class.

22.)    Business-Academic Approach- a well-manage classroom that is free from disruptions, where student behave in an orderly manner and are involved enthusiastically in learning, exist where teachers have a clear idea of the type of classroom conditions, students behavior and instructional activities they wish to produce.

33.)    The behavior Modification Approach – this involves various techniques and methods that ranging from simple rewards to elaborate reinforcement training. In this approach the teacher here will make rewards to the student who participates well in the class and also gives reinforcement if they do badly inside the class.

44.)    Group Managerial Approach – this emphasized the importance of responding immediately to group pupil/student behavior that might be undesirable in order to prevent problems than having to deal with them after they come up.  The teacher here will manage the different group activities of the students if all of them participates the said activities.

55.)    Group-Guidance Approach – this is based on changing the overt behavior of the student on a group basis.

There are four characteristics of Classroom Management.

ü  The physical environment

ü  The intellectual climate

ü  The social climate

ü  The emotional climate

Classroom Discipline – refers to the order which is necessary in the classroom for pupils learning to occur effectively.  The most serious common types of disciplinary problems are cheating, stealing, and shouting destruction or school property, and defiance to school rules and regulation.  The causes of disciplinary problems are the teacher factor, the learner as a factor in discipline and the school environment as a factor in discipline. The question now is, how can classroom discipline improved?  In order to improved classroom discipline, the teacher must maintain better approaches how these behavioral problems can be minimized to a tolerable level.  So, the teacher should apply all the approaches to classroom management.

The Laboratory Method

Computer/Internet Laboratory

Science Laboratory

Laboratory Method was reported by Allan Bruces. It is synonymous with the experimental method in the sense that the individual do the experiments in the laboratory.

The term laboratory is the place where the students make an experiment or a place for experimental study where there was various experimental apparatus.  Through this laboratory the students now can apply in person the topics they have discussed just like computer laboratory, internet laboratory, and science laboratory.  Through this laboratories the students now develop their skills and apply what they have learn  Laboratory is very important, because learners can learn more in laboratory activities than discussing the subject matter in the class.

Demonstration Method

A teacher demonstrates to her students

When we say Demonstration method, it is a type of method which can be imitated or replicate.  Imitate, because the teacher now demonstrate to the learners a specific topic to be followed.  Like for example the teacher demonstrate on how to open a computer and then after the teacher demonstrate the learners now will imitate or apply what the teacher teach by them.  There are steps in Demonstration Method: The purposing which includes preparation, motivation, and clarifying objectives. Through purposing the students now aware about the importance of the topic to be demonstrate to them. Planning this consist of the object of the demonstration, the materials to be needed, the date, time, and place of the learning activity. Demonstration proper the preparation now of the said activity has done. Executing This is the stage of demonstration process which is carried out by the learners through repetition, duplication, or imitation shown by the demonstration teacher. Evaluation is the last step of demonstration method.  In this learning activity, evaluation is necessary enable to test the learners if they have catch up the lessons they have discussed.

Types of lessons

Based on objectives there are different types of lessons. (1.) developmental lesson,(2.)supervised study lesson,(3)  review lesson,(4.)drill lesson, (5.) appreciation lesson, and (6) application lesson.

In Developmental Lesson which is discussed already by Mr. Bongabong; it is a type of something to be learned in which a new idea is presented and developed either it could be a concept, a principle, a theory, a skill or generalization. And it contains 2 types of Developmental lesson which is the Formal and Informal.

When you say Formal it utilizes deductive and inductive methods.  And Informal uses the question and answer method or the conversational approach.  The steps in having Developmental Lesson are preparation, presentation and application.

In Supervised study lesson which is also reported by Mr. Bongabong, For me Supervised Study Lesson is a type of studying a lesson which is guided by a teacher.  A teacher here will give direction to the learners to study their lesson and the teacher here will supervise them and also motivate them why they should have to study their lesson in order for the learners to be interested on scanning their notes.

In Drill Lesson which is reported be Ruelene, it is intended for automatization of certain facts, information, habit, attitudes and skills to fix association for permanency of to perfect a certain degree a particular skill.  As what I have understand when you say Drill it is a way of applying what you have discussed or what you have understand on your subject matter or lesson.  Like for example in our subject in computer after the teacher discussed the lesson the students now will apply it from the computer or in a short term the students now will have their hand-on.

While in Application Letter.  It is a type of learning instruction that gives the learners the opportunity to relate, express and apply what they have learned.  Application Lesson are certain conditions or situation are created that will lead learners to express their thoughts construction or illustration of the concept, or language what they think or feel. There are different kinds or Application Letter. The story telling, Oral reading,Dramatization, Written Composition, Construction and Illustration, Singing, Creative work or composition and the Test.

Postscript - Some Random Thoughts on Demonstration

As what I have understood in the thoughts on Demonstration, we must do demonstration step by step “Do not hurry your Demonstration” in order for the students to understand the lesson you are demonstrating.  You must taught your students assuming that they are “zero” knowledge or “zero” skill so that all of them can relate your topic and can follow you what you were doing or what you wanted to deal to them even if they have any background on the specific lesson of not.  If you faster your demonstration you can finished many topics, but the question here now is, do your students catch up all the topics you have discussed?  Maybe just only a few learners can adopt your topics and sometimes your students got struggled about the subject matter you have been taught/tackled.  So enable to deal your students perfectly, you must also monitor them if they understand your lesson or if they followed what you are discussing.

Appreciation lesson

Appreciation lesson is designed to instruct the class to understand, appreciate and to enjoy something.  In this lesson the teacher now will think and plan what will be his/her techniques to induce students to listen and participate the subject matter they have discussed.  And this appreciation lesson can be caught from literature, music, arts, nature, religion, culture and environment.  Through this six sources of appreciation, the teacher now have an idea what will be his/her steps to captured the interest of their students.

WHAT IS MOTIVATION?

Motivation arouses an organism to action towards his desired goals.  A person who is motivated enough tries to achieve his goals in life.  For example:  An individual has not eaten, he or she feels hungry, and as a response he or she eats and diminishes feelings of hunger.  An individual who is motivated enough for the importance about education will do his best to finish his/her studies.

Two concepts of Motivation

1.        Intrinsic Motivation - refers to the interest of a person to his/her specific goals in life.   Intrinsic motivation is based on taking pleasure in an activity rather than working towards an external reward.  With or without a reward or punishment you are motivated to the specific task.

2.       Extrinsic Motivation - refers to the performance of an activity in order to attain an outcome, which then contradicts intrinsic motivation.  When we say extrinsic motivation it is an opposite towards intrinsic motivation.  Extrinsic motivation, you as an individual was forced to do something just for a reward or because you will be punished if you will not take the task.

Instructional Planning

Instructional planning is the ability  of the teacher to visualize and  forecast into of the what, why, and how to the teaching learning process.  Planning as a process begins with objectives and defines strategies, policies, and detailed plan to achieve the desired results.  There are two types of teacher planning that  involves decision:
1.  Subject Matter Knowledge - organization and presentation of content understanding of content, and knowledge of how to teach the content.
2.  Action System Knowledge - teaching activities such as diagnosing, grouping, managing, and evaluating students and implementing instructional activities in learning process.

The Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan is a teacher’s guide about the lessons to be tackled in the class.  It is very important to the entire teacher to provide lesson plan because through lesson plan you can have a direct instructions on what will be the content of topic you have to discuss on a specific time. Your lesson now will be orderly taken up to the class. And because of orderly lessons your students now will be able to cope up all the topics on your class.

                In making a lesson plan there are different components to be followed.  First is, you must have a specific objectives of the lessons to be discussed. Second is, there must be an appropriate motivation to capture the learners; interest and maintain throughout the lesson.  Third, There must also a development or outline of a lesson.  Varied methods, including drill, questions, and demonstrations, to design to keep the lesson on track.  Varied materials and media to supplement and clarify content.  And the last is, you must have a provision for an assignment or homework of your students.

                In making a lesson plan, you must be creative in order to induce your students to listen your discussion.  Through creative lessons your students now will not be bored and they will easily cope up or understand your lesson and they were also enjoying your lesson rather. 

COGNITIVE LEARNING

Cognitive learning is defined as the acquisition of knowledge and skill by mental or cognitive processes — the procedures we have for manipulating information 'in our heads'. It focuses on the mental activity or a head level of learning. Cognitive processes include creating mental representations of physical objects and events, and other forms of information processing.

Cognitive learning is a powerful mechanism that provides the means of knowledge, and goes well beyond simple imitation of others.  It is the result of listening, watching, touching or experiencing. In Cognitive learning the learner is quite active, in a cognitive way, in processing and remembering newly incoming information.  It enables us to create and transmit a complex culture that includes symbols, values, beliefs and norms.

Cognitive Learning Theory

Two specific theories:

A. Social Cognitive Theory

In the Social Cognitive Theory, we are considering 3 variables:

• behavioral factors
• environmental factors (extrinsic)
• personal factors (intrinsic)

An individual’s personal experience can converge with the behavioral determinants and the environmental factors.

Social Cognitive Theory Illustration (Pajares, 2002)

In the person-environment interaction, human beliefs, ideas and cognitive competencies are modified by external factors such as a supportive parent, stressful environment or a hot climate. In the person-behavior interaction, the cognitive processes of a person affect his behavior; likewise, performance of such behavior can modify the way he thinks. Lastly, the environment-behavior interaction, external factors can alter the way you display the behavior. Also, your behavior can affect and modify your environment. This model clearly implies that for effective and positive learning to occur an individual should have positive personal characteristics, exhibit appropriate behavior and stay in a supportive environment.

In addition, Social Cognitive Theory states that new experiences are to be evaluated by the learner by means of analyzing his past experiences with the same determinants. Learning, therefore, is a result of a thorough evaluation of the present experience versus the past.

Basic Concepts

1.      Observational Learning
learning from other people by means of observing them.

2.      Reproduction
the process wherein there is an aim to effectively increase the repeating of a behavior by means of putting the individual in a comfortable environment with readily accessible materials to motivate him to retain the new knowledge and behavior learned and practice them.

3.      Self-efficacy
the course wherein the learner improves his newly learned knowledge or behavior by putting it into practice.

4.      Emotional coping
good coping mechanisms against stressful environment and negative personal characteristics can lead to effective learning, especially in adults.

5.      Self-regulatory capability
ability to control behavior even within an unfavorable environment.

B. Cognitive Behavioral Theory

Cognitive Behavioral Theory describes the role of cognition (knowing) to determining and predicting the behavioral pattern of an individual.

The Cognitive Behavioral Theory says that individuals tend to form self-concepts that affect the behavior they display. These concepts can be positive or negative and can be affected by a person’s environment.

The Cognitive Triad

Cognitive Behavioral Theory further explains human behavior and learning using the cognitive triad. This triad includes negative thoughts about:

1. The self (i.e., I am rubbish)
2. The world/environment (i.e., the world is irrational)
3. The future (i.e., my future is doomed)

Behavioral Learning Theories.

According to Borich, there are three elements in learning.  The Environment, Performances, and Reinforcement.


For me, through environment we gain learning in our daily activities.  We can gain knowledge as we observe small things or experiences we encountered in everyday living.  When we say performances, we can identify whether it is good or bad through different feedback's from people so-rounding us.  It depends to a person if the feedback from his/her performances can encourage or discourage to him/her.  Through this you can have a guide on how will you improved your performance.  And the last is Reinforcement, you can learn also through reinforcement because you will be motivated to do something good because if you will not response or if you were rejected reinforcement it will proceed to punishment.

In Learning there are three Sequence of information processing by Slavin.

1.  Sensory registers which defines that it receives the big amount of information from the senses and holds it for a very short-term memory.  For me it is all about registering knowledge through our senses.  Through our different senses like the sense of seeing, sense of hearing, sense of touch, sense of smelling,.  We can gain information about something, through this senses we can we can easily stored a big amount of information but it only takes for a very short-time and it can be transferred into a short-term memory, because some information were rejected.  For example through sense of taste we already know if the food is sweet or sour.

2.  Short-term or Working Memory - holds the limited amount of information paid attention to, organizes it for storage or for discarding and connecting to other information.  Your information stored in memory were limited.  Not all the information you have learned were stored. Some information were lost or neglected.

3.  Long-term memory - Keeps information for lone period of time and integrated it through rehearsal, elaboration and organization with organization that is really known.  This is a type of information which is already know and was applied again and again that's why it takes too long in our memory.

What is learning?

Learning defines as a modification of behavior through experience.  It is an enrichment of experience.  It occupies role in the school because, without learning all efforts of pupils as well as of teachers are bound to become purposeless.  Learning essentially consists in the modification reactions due to experience or practice.  It is a lifetime process.  In general, learning described as the process of having one's behavior modified, more or less permanently, by what happens in the world around us by what we observes.

We can say learning is a lifetime process because, everyday we can gain learning in different ways, inside the classroom, inside the school, at home, in our friends, or anywhere.  We can learn many things in everyday life.  Either based on experience or learning about the class lessons. 

Learning can be through concrete experience, through observation and reflection, through abstract conceptualization, and through active experimentation.