Friday, 25 September 2009

RaNdoM StuFF FrOm ThE CLassRooM



It has been a good week in the old classroom!! Never a bad thing when you can play a bit of NWA in a lesson!! Teaching probably my favourite module on the Foundation Degree - Social Issues in Sport.
We covered Racism this week. Played some Eminem first, then NWA, to start a discussion on Stereotypes.
Makes you realise how powerful rap can be. How good it used to be, unlike most rap these days!!!

We also had the funniest discussion on Caster Semenya, (the South African runner)  my favourite quote being

" I don't see all the fuss about tests...just pull his pants down and you will see his cock, end of argument!"

On a different note, I teach some low level English groups and it can be quite an eye opener. At the start of the year I always do an exercise called 'pieces of me' where the students identify 10 things about themselves. fave music, fave food, fave holiday etc...bare in mind these students are 16, I had one say he had never been on holiday in his life! You could tell he wasn't making it up. I also had a couple of students who said that they couldn't read at 16...v v sad indeed. All in a weeks work!!!!!

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