“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 Class” I have pondered that it is not easy to become a teacher because I don’t know how to discipline the students I am just teaching in the classroom with no students inside and it is useless.Mr. Francois Marin a supervisor at the same a teacher. His strategies/methods of teaching are; lecture, hands-on exercises, self-portrait/oral reading. Mr. Marin encounters different behaviors with his students. I t is not easy for him to deal with those students, therefore, as his strategy in managing conflicts is first he exercise his patience so that what every consequences it may come he is ready to face it. He entertain all the questions of his students even there were some question are very personal and offensive but he tried to answer very calmly. He gave his students freedom to express their own thoughts and opinion in everything. And he gives a follow-up answer or comments to the student who raises the question or opinion. He gave some challenging activities like self-portrait. For his students that kind of activity is very nonsense because they are not used to open their personal matters in the public. But the only purpose of Mr. Marin is to make his students out of their shelves and try to make his students to lift-up and develop their self-esteem. And make them to realize that each of them is very special because of the uniqueness kind they has. Made them to realized their importance as a person exists in this world, believe their capabilities and talents. When there was student who has a very unkind attitude during his class hour and its name was Khoumba.The way Mr. Marin solves the problem is he called the attention of Khoumba after the class. He was trying to ask the girl why she acts those ways and teach her to learn how to apologize. But, it took a long conversation before the student did what Mr. Marin wants her to do. Here comes another student named Soleymane a hardheaded and a trouble maker student in his class. Soleymanesent to the principal and disciplinary committee and sentenced him to drop out in the school. In teaching profession there were many barricades, challenges, which test the capacity of the being an educator just like in the climax point of the story when the semester ends the student says to the teacher that she “learns nothing in his teaching”. A very big issue why the student did not learn even a minute part of the topic he discuss in the class. For me I must be aware of that kind of student, I will use the pre and post-test in order to determine and make sure if the students of mine have gain some knowledge in my teaching.

"THE ART OF QUESTIONING"

It is assumed that good teaching involves good questioning, especially when large groups of pupils/student are being taught. True questioning you will be able to know if your students can really understand of what you are being taught to them.   As of my side it is important to have an art of questioning so that students can analyze and understand the question you have asked from them. As a teacher, in making a question to your students you must answer it first or you must think twice if your students can understand your questions so that they can answer it. The type and sequence of the questions and how the learners respond to them influence the quality of the classroom discussion and the effectiveness of instruction. Good teacher usually have skill in striking a balance between factual and thought-provoking question and in electing question to emphasize important points and stimulate lively discussion.

There are descriptive categories of questions-several authorities have formulated their own categories and models of questions these are:

1.       Cognitive memory questions- to reproduce facts or remember contents through processes.

2.       Convergent question-to recalls information that leads to correct or conventional answer.

3.        Divergent question-to generates their own data or a new perspective on a given topic.

4.       Evaluative question-to makes value judgment about the quality, correctness or adequacy of information.