Teacher learns from Students, how about that?

Hi guys,
It is my first time to write a post in a blog. I'm a newbie. Well, that doesn't sound good, but at least I'd like to share my experience (or experiment in my opinion).

I have so much challenging situation in term of engaging the students. I teach a post graduate class in the evening. And the students enter the class after a full working day, so they can be switched off easily.  I teach brand new subject with almost no local literature.   And also some of  them are practitioners in investigative audit. They are real investigative auditor meanwhile I am an auditor but I never practice as investigative auditor. I was worried how to engage the students.

Then I learned that the communication,humor and  praising is very important in this situation. If a student feel comfortable and respected he will be an active volunteer in class activities. Grouping is also effective in class activities. The experienced students became source of learning. Thank God it works! And hopefully it continues... I love CLIL. The positive thing is I can learn from my students their field experiences. It feels like I am a student among them (but I got paid). When the teacher feels like a student he must be much younger then. :)


       Surya

Teaching Trial

Hi Guys..
Have you try your teaching practices in the real class? how to lead in, to scaffold students and to engage them in your lesson..
I will try to use it for my postgrad stud..
Thanks Josie, Joe and Komang for the new learning methods

Only took me 16 minutes to get this far!

Hi Everyone,


Thank you so much for setting this up. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this works! I think I still need a bit of help- like how to change my name to 'Josie'. But...bit by bit....



See you all tomorrow and please bring a healthy appetite.
Josie

Sup!

Introducing 16 smart, brilliant, genius participants:
1. Wireless.
2. Mastitis.
3. Think out of the box.
4. Poverty.
5. Flat Money.
6. Anatomy.
7. Breast feeding.
8. Kissing Disease.
9. Public Policy.
10. News Worthiness.
11. Emotion.
12. International Treaty.
13. Love Triangle.
14. Noodle Ascariasis.
15. Ecotourism.
16. Tray Feeder.

And the greatest teachers ever,  "The JJK":
1. Josie "Pace of life"
2. Joe, "Match up guys"
3. Komang, "Scaffolding"

Not to forget:
1. Vlad "Critical Thinking".
2. Steve "Pecha Kucha".
3. Reny "ICT".