Learning Log No. 5 Part 2

Teaching 3^rd years, Educare, ‘Point of View’

Elements of model: very structured and is skills based

Learning objective: students should be able to identify effects of different points of view for a reader

                             : should write confidently from a perspective of somebody other than themselves

Explain: ask students what they think is a ‘point of view’ and what the effects are

Doing-detail: handouts of extracts from a piece that relates to the task

Use: write a paragraph from a second person’s voice

Check and correct: small group workshop

Homework: for next week, writing exercise on different P.O.V

The plan above was devised in class. I had to work with 3 other classmates so there’s no doubt that there was a clash of ideas of what ‘point of view’ really is. In my opinion, it can mean different things to everyone. I and one student stated that P.O.V is a view from a character, ranging from a dog’s view to a grandmother’s view, etc. Whereas the other two thought that P.O.V is in relation to the use of narratives; first person, second person and third person. The struggle to decide what it really means is an interesting point to include in my Learning Log because it meant that we had to decide on what to teach. It took us a while but in the end we concluded in joining those two ideas together. Considering that the class was for third years, we may as well go for it, knowing that it would be a challenging task. Not a lot of students normally use second person narrative so we went with that. In terms of characterization, we thought that students should write it from an opposite sex’s point of view. Ironically, the difficulty was making the task difficult itself. We really had to think differently. 

I thought that this task was very useful. This is because my parents had always taught me to never let my ego get in the way of doing/making something good. Especially at this generation and time, most things are now made of collaborated work. People are connecting and networking. It's important to accept that not everyone will agree with my ideas. This too can play a big part for teaching. Now that teaching is not exactly as black and white as many years ago, we have to think of different ways of teaching. Try new things and share ideas. Listening to myself arguing with my fellow groupmates was a good lesson because it inevitably brought ourselves to negotiate and come up with something effective.