I love the article” General MAcArthur’s Prayer For His Son” , it touched my heart since I was a junior high school student. I appreciate Group 6 they choose the article for a model of teaching reading. If I am a high school student, I will pay attention to the class with my favorite article. And, for all of the groups I find out that every group always divides students into several groups with a ” competition”.
Sometimes I do not know why should I have to do this job, because teacher always ” count” each group of the students when they raise her/ his hand to answer a question. I am confused with that. Beacuse if I am student, sometimes I feel bored in the ” competition”.
Finally, I find out that why should we do that in our teaching activity. ” Count”is not the point for the students. Teachers arouse the students who can learn something from the teaching activity is the most important thing. So, a good motivation activity is very important not only for the students but for the teachers who can do their best in conveying knowledge.
However, is it the only way for teachers make a motivation in” competition” . Many approach we still have to learn.
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April 26, 2007 at 1:49 am
Alice Chiu
You brought up a good question here: is it good for students to compete with each other all the time? Well, as far as I see, competition is not always good even though the excitement can boost students’ interest and invite more participation. As you mention here, I do believe there are some other way to achieve the goal. Therefore, there should be activities that promote collaboration since it’s vital for students to learn how to work with others. We should put an emphasis on the importance of teamwork and give them tasks in which they know how to communicate or negotiate in an effective way. When competition is turned into collaboration, students can perform well in real world. Comments?