one detail

there is a disabled student in my class and he sits on his wheel chair, he cannot walk. yes it is not sth good but what is fine here is that he is not isolated from his friends, rather he is very symphatic and all his friends show their regards towards him. for example while entering the class he is the first one or in lunch time. in break times his friends drive him to the wherever he wishes. in fact there are servants in the coridors and it is one of their responsibility, i dont mean they are not doing their job, but other pupils don t let those men as they love their friends.

for example, last week it was a computer session and everybody were in quee and he is the first of course. our mentor teacher asked me to drive him to the lab. i began to drive but the servants run towards us and he said " let me drive him". and i said "no, its not a problem for me". but he insisted and he took the weelchair back.

and i thought he is the most fortunate disabled i have ever seen!

computer and the pupils

hi everybody. i have one thing to share with you. the 2 nd grade class we are attending in metu college has an hour allocated for self english practice through computer. they go to the computer lab in one of the lesson time and it is in fortnight periodically. as they study a topic they practice those topics using computers. in computers there is a soft library including the subjects in their coursebooks, they switch on the computers by them selves and they are able to use the computer by themselves. there are few students who cannot do all that job properly but they are learning.

i think it is a very good activity for children to make them familiar with the computers and especially the academic use of technology.

a nice application

hi friends i want to share sth that i got surprised very much. last week i saw that they have a fruit hour and the students are to eat fruit of the day. last week we also participated that program and it was the apple hour. our mentor teacher and we ate some apple, too. and i saw that the students who would not like to eat fruit are required to get permission from the teacher. for example there were two students and one is suffering from stomchache and the other is suffering from toothache and they explained their excuse and they were the only ones who doesn t eat that day. as we all know fruit is very important for health and however the school seems placing importance upon freedom, they don t let students free about critical issues such as health.
they have to take care of their health.

it is just the first impression we have!

It has been two days since I have got my first impression about METU College. In these two days we had the chance of sharing our first impressions with our instructor. That is why I will not write the same things that I have said in the class but I have some other points that I want to share with you.

As far as I can see most people felt the same things about the school however there were differences between the perceptions of being a teacher in a primary school. Some of my friends, including me, has experienced that it is not that easy to be a teacher in a primary school or it is not that unfortunate to have pupils who are speaking English very well already.

I think the important thing is that this is just the first meeting and there will probably be lots of changes in our way of thinking about the college, the teachers, the pupils and the English teaching as a vocation. I think we should keep in our mind that whatever we feel about our first visit, our words in the last class were not the reflection of our first impression but the last impression as we haven’t gone to the school for a second time yet. We will go to the METU college for a second and third and forth…etc. at the end of the semester, when we are asked what is our opinion about the school, most probably we will have sentences like “at first I thought…, but in fact….”. The time will fill in the blanks.

So, make sure that it is just the first impression we have.

hi