Friday, November 28, 2008
When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. When the tough gets tougher, the toughest get going. So they say! Am I tough, tougher or the toughest? Well, I have yet to see whether I'm able to weather the IT storm that took over my class yesterday. Too many things to learn and too few days to assimilate the learning. We had to create a website using wetpaint.com for the gurus of learning environment and present the product. As I was reading up on Prof Theo Wubbels, many things crossed my mind.

One striking thinking he talked about in "Paying Attention to Relationships" is the way the pupils perceive the teacher. Students are more comfortable with a teacher who can relate well and understand her instructional methodology. One example is when a teacher administers the Questionaire for Teacher Interaction to 2 different classes of varying learning abilities. According to Wubbels, by gathering both perspectives, teachers can compare the results and gauge the quality of class atmosphere and how well they are communicating with the students. Usually the QTI scores would be similar, which attest to the relative stability in the teacher behaviour.

It could be an exception, if you may call it but doesn't the class dynamics affect the teacher's behaviour in each class? In my case, I portray a Dominant characteristic, to the point of being admonishing in my unruly English class but I'm friendlier, less dissatisfied and critical and most of all allowing my pupils more freedom in my Literature class. The class size matters as a smaller class draws the teacher and students closer. Nevertherless, I realise that the QTI is a powerful tool for teachers to know their own behavioural patterns in each class.


|Sakun:D| 11/28/2008 06:38:00 AM|

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