Please post your on comments here about what is a dynamic class
Archive for March, 2006
Dynamic classes????
DYNAMICS is a subject within itself. It is linked today mainly with Maths, computers. There is a lot of information on these areas but little on teaching
I was watching the TV one morning while sitting in my Doctor´s waiting room and I was listening to my favourite samba singer Beth Carvalho speaking and she was talking about how she likes to introduce new, up and coming composers to people she knows in the samba comunity.
The interviewer asked he why she did this.
She responded "because it make the things more dynamic". What did she mean?
This is a question that has not been defined well in ELT and this project we hope will do just this so we can be better teachers and of course be more DYNAMIC and be more DYNAMIC teachers.
Below are some definitions of what is dynamic taken from various sources
1.Cambridge online Dictionary.
This is a simple definition of dynamic/dynamism
2. a) Websters Online Dictionary One more definition to compare
b) Webster´s Online Thesaurus What is different with this information
3. A book review about Dymanic classroom for young children. Have alook at this link and see the main points the author uses to describe a dymanic classroom
This article talks about dynamic learning communites. have a look and see what you think can be applied to our work in the English language classroom.
A link to the University of Oklahoma. Thi is an interesting article and it gives 3 areas of what makes up as they call it "credible teacher" . One of them is dynamism.
6. Lu Wang´s Dynamic classroom. This Law student had an article in the University of Pittsburgh´s Teaching Times, and this is what she says about how she sees her dynamic classroom .
There is lots of information on dynamism on your computer. Just go searching and you´ll find much more. Maybe you could post some of it here to enrich our work.
To post own your views on dynamic classes go to the next page. Put any reaseacrh you find here only
Sequence of activites
An intial plan was drawn up as a guide to carrying out the action reaserch project
1. Set up a blog to store data
2. background reading on Dynamism and Dynamic classes to be posted on the blog for the group to read.
3. Teachers to state/post what they feelin is a dymanic class
4. Questions to be agreed before teachers interview students to here their views on what is a dynamic class
5. Interviews to be posted on the blog.
6. Results to be reviewed
7. Conclusion made as to what is a dynmic class based on all the informatio posted
8. Plans made by the group as to the course of action to be taken in the classroom.
9. Teachers to put into action their enlightened view on what is a dynamic class.
What is ACTION RESEARCH?
Here are two quotes that were used in the first meeting on 10th March 2006,about our project at Cultura Inglesa Asa Sul, Brasilia, Brazil.
“Research, usually informal, designed for direct application to behaviour or a situation, as researched by teachers in their classroom”
Supervising Teachers, Randal and Thornton, CUP, 2001
“Action Research is a fancy way of saying let´s study what is happening in our school and decide how to make it a beter place”
Emily Calhoun, 1994.
