Monday, November 17, 2008

Class Time Reflection (Lesson Planning/Oct.27/Week10)

When I was teaching to young learners my students love to competition. They really had lots of fun and the production was really good, too. It must be something about age thing. At that each they could anything to win. On the contrary I was teaching adults at the same time then and competition was useless for them because they found the competition very childish. So instead of competition collaborative task could be much more useful for adults. For instance when I asked them to come in front of the class and speak they were blushing but when I asked them to do the same task with their partner it worked. To me competition is really a useful technique for young learners while group work or any other collaborative task is useful for adults.

1 comments:

Jodi said...

I HATED competition when I was young, and still do. My elementary school teachers used to play math games quite frequently and I always knew it would be one of three people who would win every time. Same thing with art contensts. I was never the BEST and so I didn't enjoy it. Competition could be good if everybody truly has a equal chance of winning.