New Milestone in Education

In the clip we watched last week, there were a lot of students, many of whom had some problems. For example, Henritte seemed to be too silent and shy. Angellica was protesting to homework which she had to do. Suleyman was a troublemaker who created lots of problems in all teachers` classes. Esmeralda was too confident. Knoumba was too protesting because she had problems related to growing up. One of the students created his own style by wearing black and feeling different from the other people. Teacher had problems related to students in the cassroom, time management, authority and discipline. Then what the problem was and exactly what went wrong with the students.
Actually there is a lot of items of information to discuss and several reasons to talk about according to Thomas Ziehe. Nowadays we have seen that in fact we are moving from a norm-regulated form of society to prefarence-oriented society. It is seperated from high culture. In other words, u don`t have to read about Shakesphere since he is important for society. Now,in other words, the young people have more chance to opt out. They are free and liberal. They have the choice of focusing on high culture or not. It depends on them. As being a part of popular culture, they have the opportunity of avoiding the content which is not pleasent for them and pose a question of why do this, which is not so strange. For example, Angellica doesn`t want to write an autobiography like Annie Frankie did, which seems to be an unstrange body of knowledge for her and therefore she called the diary Annie Frankie wrote as `before my time` because the effect of high culture decreases. In addition to this, they create their own style. That`s to say, they become a part of detraditionalisation. They do something if it rings a bell in their mind.This also explains why one of the students want to wear black and become different from the society as an individual. As a teacher, u should in fact create self distance to everyday life, otherwise they will find `the important thing `for u to become as `out of their time` . You should provoke something strange to them so that they can deal with it and u shouldn`t agree on everything they want. If you do so, students like Suleyman will create problems in your class by being troblemakers since it seems for them u are not an authorative teacher. In this case, you should have a certain styles to get their self-world. It is important to avoid being friendly to students, not get closer to everyday life, have some structures rather than be informal. This also explains why Khoumba doesn`t do anything her teacher wants her to do. She gets angrier when her teacher talks about girls` period, which is important for her.In addition in a part of movie, a black student told that he didn`t eat with his friend`s mother since it seemed to be a kind of disobedience and immorality, which also shows that a teacher should be aware of different backgrounds in the class. It is also important for a teacher to provide motivation among students. It seems important for them how they have an image in their friends` eyes, which is called self-valuation. As a teacher, u should create an environment in which students are voluntary to demonstrate a will. Otherwise, they are going to be more reserved, shy, silent and response to questions with short answers like in Henritte`s case.

To sum up, as a teacher who will not want to have problems related to classroom management you should:

• be aware of your time schedule and plan your exercises in the class in advance,
• do some warm-up activities before passsing the topic so that they can be ready and find the content interesting for themselves,
• have an authority so that students respect you,
• create an environment in terms of motivation.
• be like a coach and guide who helps and shows how to catch a fish and teach with the aid which is called ZPD (zone of proximal development) ,
• be aware of their pschological and physical developments, levels, interests, and different backgrounds,
• teach them how to be respectful and kind to eachothers` rights,and
• be tolerant and patient enough to deal with your students` problems.

..............CINDERALLA`S FAIRYTALE AS AN INTERCULTURAL SPEAKER......

Welcome to a new story. If u r ready, we can move to another story of Cinderalla in Vordingborg. Cinderalla loses her shoe and waits for the important day to come to wear magical shoes and have a different lifestyle. Altough it was silent, dark, and boring at the beginning, I realised evrything was getting more interesting and nicer. Semra and I decided to go to Copenhagen because we were too bored last week. After getting outside, we realized that there was a really sweet pumpkin in the entrance of our dormitory and I told why it was there and what it meant.

Yes, the day comes. Cinderella wears her shoes. When we were in Copenhagen, we saw a lot of pumpkins, witches in the boxes, light in the pumpkins in Tivoli. I was amazed by what I saw and told myself how nice to be in Denmark and have cultural differences. Yeah we speak English and in fact English is not just a speaking tool for me because I notice different aspects of using it. I mean I met a lot of friends.They are from diffrent cities of Denmark or different countries. I saw that school gives breakfast party free for all students in the beginning of the year and they have a national song in this Welcome Party.It is called Swing. In addition, I learnt that there was a tradition of ligthing candles in Denmark. Knowing how many people ride bicycle is really amazing and interesting compared to Turkey, which makes me happy since it is not so common to ride bicycle for a girl at least in my city. Besides this, I learnt that there were also a lot of different Korean children adopted by government. This is nice and reasonable when u think about the fact that Denmark is a multicultural government.

After that, Cinderalla becomes aware of a lot of things and now time comes for getting on the pumpkin car. There is also a story about Halloween. Let`s talk a bit about this nice and interesting event. Halloween is told to be a really old holiday which has many influences from other cultures over the centuries. From the Roman`s Pomona day, to the Celtic festival of Samhain, to the Christian holidays of All Saints and All Souls Days. In other words, Halloween includes Pomona Day`s apples, nuts, and harvest, the Festival of Samhain`s black cats, magic, evil spirits, and death, and the ghosts, skeletons, and skulls from All Saint`s Day and All Soul`s Day. People make shapes on the pumpkins, they empty what is in the pumpkins. Crops are harvested, people light fire and give this fire to the other family so taht it keeps them warm and free from evil spirits. Yeah it is a really nice story and a part of culture to be taken into consideration.

As an intercultural speaker, I can say that I am happy to use English, my magical shoe and magical stick, because I learn different dimensions of culture and meet new personalities, which also makes me happy and have different horizon in terms of lifestyle I have in Turkey. I say yeah I love doing this and therefore why not do this since people don`t approve. I will make my students aware of this when I am a teacher. I will encourage them to learn English as a magical stick to shape thier lives by going to other countries and firstly using it among themselves. Therefore, Cinderalla will leave country by reaching her aim with a HAPPY END.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Welcome to Denmark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Before coming to Denmark, I was too excited and quite unsure about what was waiting for me. In the plane, I was just thinking about my family, my friends, and my boyfriend. I just remembered that my mum was crying because she is as emotional as I am. As soon as we arrived at the airport, I felt colder, sleepier, tired, and hungrier, and that was the point which made me feel a bit frustrated. We had to wait a lot in the airport for the train to come. In addition to this, we didn`t have any money as Danish Kroner and this meant another problem for us since we had just Euro. By the way, we met a girl whose name was Silan and came from Turkey. She was waiting for Sweeden train. When I saw her, I was too surprised because she was sleeping on the stairs in the airport. I told her why she was sleeping on the ground, and she said there was no other choice. The idea seeming strange to me at first turned out to be the best way of getting comfortable until the train came. There was another interesting thing for me. I was too thirsty and didn`t have any idea where to buy water because all the shoppings were closed. As a solution, I had to drink water from the tap which was in the restroom. Realizing what Iencountered with, I told myself that YEAH, YEAH a good and hard year is waiting for me. Ugur and Nazli checked train hours and we had to wait and look for our baggage.

Before taking the train to Vordingborg, we met a Turkish family. We talked about the prices of the clothes and cheap place to buy them, and the interesting thing was that they haven`t any idea about Vordingborg. When we were in the train, we told that we were new in the Denmark and therefore paid money in Euro. We also got surprised to see how much money we paid for the train since going from one city to another does not cost a lot compared with Denmark. When we were in the train, I thought myself that Denmark must be an industrialized country and upon seeing the sigtseeing and nature, I forgot the bad experince I had in the airport and just confessed to myself that I would be relaxed, happy, and comfortable.

Upon coming to Vordingborg station, we had to wait again for our tutors to come and take us. Before that, we talked to a woman and she helped us in terms of calling the number we wanted. We told taht Danish people were friendly and kind. After calling our tutors Martin and Trine, they came and it seemed to be an unforgettable time to meet them. They invited us to have breakfast, which was their kindness and then we all went outside in order to see where we could go for shopping, buying phone cards, and eating. It was a really tiring day since it was our first day, but we were happy due to being in a peaceful, silent, and environmentalist place. In the first day, we felt cold and told it was really freezing for us and after that Martin told ''WELCOME to DENMARK'', which were the magical words of the first day in the small wonderland.