{"id":472,"date":"2010-09-20T11:31:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T03:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2010-09-20T11:31:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T03:31:28","slug":"earning-respect-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/09\/20\/earning-respect-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Earning Respect in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the main building in which I teach, building number three. \u00a0Maureen has most of her classes in building four. \u00a0However, we do share one teaching room on the third floor of this four story building, a classroom that is just to the right of the balcony seen in this photo. \u00a0Of course we teach there at different times.<\/p>\n

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This is a photo of my class this morning taken in the classroom I was talking about. \u00a0These students are in the College of Commerce studying e-business. \u00a0Today’s lesson was a mixture of two topics – Classroom Rules and Mid-Autumn Festival. \u00a0As Samson pointed out, both Maureen and I create lessons so that students can bring their knowledge to the classroom and find ways to use that knowledge in English. \u00a0It makes for a lively set of lessons for us as teachers and for them as students. \u00a0For them, it is about being active participants rather than the traditional recipients in the learning process.<\/p>\n

For the students, they get to be teachers as much as they get to be students. \u00a0We allow them to teach us about “their” assumptions, cultural beliefs and traditions. \u00a0With them having their opportunity to speak about things they know, they are primed to hear us talk about corresponding ideas and cultural beliefs from a western world perspective. \u00a0Students are involved and feel valued – and that is the key to avoiding conflict between foreign teacher and Chinese students. \u00a0It all comes down to respect in the end. \u00a0We respect them and their knowledge and they respect us in turn allowing us to be “real” teachers in return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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