This is my first comment and I would like to mention something very important about the classrooms. Till this year, we have been given nothing but theorotical knowledge about teaching English, and we haven't been in any real English-learning environment.
There are many things to say, but I would mention one of them: inadequate technological support in the classrooms.
The school I'm practicing is Hasan Âli Yücel Anadolu Öğretmen Lisesi and it's one of the most prestigious high schools in Turkey, maybe the most successul one among the anatolian teacher training high schools, and before going there, I would expect that there would no problem in terms of technological equipments such as computers, projectors, speakers; but there is.
There is no problem related to the projectors, they work fine; but I have many complaints about the computers and especially speakers! Some of the computers only have CD-ROMs, and the teacher has a DVD of the book, and she cannot work with that DVD in classes which doesn't have DVD ROMs in computers. In some of the classes, the computers are too old, and mouses of the computers are broken. I would do fine with all of these, but the most tortuing one is the speakers! There is no speaker in classes, and some classes have speakers but they don't work, or the sound level is not enough for the students to hea, so they are in poor quality.
As the computers didn't work, I had to bring my own computer in my teaching to show a video related to the topic of the lesson, but when I went to the class I couldn't find any speakers, so I had to cancel the watching and listening activities. So, it's not enough even I bring my own laptop to the class.
I don't think that buying a speaker to a class is not too difficult, but the school management doesn't give the necessary importance to that issue. So, as I said, the theorotical knowledge doesn't match with the real life, and sometimes you end up with a sitation that's totally different from what you expected (like being unable to watch video or listen to a recording even though you bring your won computer).
I thought about it, and when I become a teacher in my real classroom, what I would do is to buy a speaker on my own and bring it with me to my classes. If you say that it is heavy and not easy to carry, what I would try is sound amplifiers (ses bombası in Turkish), they are small and they are very handy. You can take a look at them here: http://x-mini.com
This is my first comment and I would like to mention something very important about the classrooms. Till this year, we have been given nothing but theorotical knowledge about teaching English, and we haven't been in any real English-learning environment.
YanıtlaSilThere are many things to say, but I would mention one of them: inadequate technological support in the classrooms.
The school I'm practicing is Hasan Âli Yücel Anadolu Öğretmen Lisesi and it's one of the most prestigious high schools in Turkey, maybe the most successul one among the anatolian teacher training high schools, and before going there, I would expect that there would no problem in terms of technological equipments such as computers, projectors, speakers; but there is.
There is no problem related to the projectors, they work fine; but I have many complaints about the computers and especially speakers! Some of the computers only have CD-ROMs, and the teacher has a DVD of the book, and she cannot work with that DVD in classes which doesn't have DVD ROMs in computers. In some of the classes, the computers are too old, and mouses of the computers are broken. I would do fine with all of these, but the most tortuing one is the speakers! There is no speaker in classes, and some classes have speakers but they don't work, or the sound level is not enough for the students to hea, so they are in poor quality.
As the computers didn't work, I had to bring my own computer in my teaching to show a video related to the topic of the lesson, but when I went to the class I couldn't find any speakers, so I had to cancel the watching and listening activities. So, it's not enough even I bring my own laptop to the class.
I don't think that buying a speaker to a class is not too difficult, but the school management doesn't give the necessary importance to that issue. So, as I said, the theorotical knowledge doesn't match with the real life, and sometimes you end up with a sitation that's totally different from what you expected (like being unable to watch video or listen to a recording even though you bring your won computer).
I thought about it, and when I become a teacher in my real classroom, what I would do is to buy a speaker on my own and bring it with me to my classes. If you say that it is heavy and not easy to carry, what I would try is sound amplifiers (ses bombası in Turkish), they are small and they are very handy. You can take a look at them here: http://x-mini.com