More planning

DAY 24-25 26-27 MAY 2011

It’s been almost a week since I last was in my PhD mode. The reason? The action stage in its planning materials stage suffered some complication due to national holidays which made it impossible for us to meet.

Yesterday we finally met again. Because I’ve got time at my disposal I was the only one with every thing ready so to speak. A ans S spent their limited time collecting, selecting sources and planning how they’d structure their lessons without any concrete activities to share. They said, however, that they’d bring sthg the following meeting. Working at home seems more beneficial for all of us. Although we shared what we had been doing, I did not receive much feedback about my activities. I didn’t encourage them to say much either. It was like I showed them what I’d do and that’s all.

What I feel is that because content is the key aspect here, A and don’t want to produce activities that become the usual language-oriented exercises. Perhaps they don’t want to plan anything in this sense or don’t want to feel in a straitjacket as a consequence of teaching following a coursebook for so long. Now that they have freedom, they want to have it all and do nothing so to speak.

As I was going through the transcription, I noticed that our lessons will be very different and maybe mine will be the most traditional. Then we’ll see what our students think and what feedback each of us gets.