Feedback & Response to Substituting - Films

The Junior girls were around when I was writing my entry on the class I was helping out in. So I asked them for feedback!

Both of them didn't have much to say about the class. I had a block with them and we watched "Tae Guk Gi". They said I stopped at appropriate times so as to spur on more discussion. I think it might have been good, actually, that they don't have much to say about the class anyway because my objective wasn't to draw attention to myself, but to the movie. =D


However, I feel that if I had watched the movie ahead of time I could have asked better guiding questions and have assisted them more during. I think that's why I felt the lesson with the Seniors was more productive.


I was impressed with myself when, in the middle of X, I remembered the questions that Bill had asked us last year - when we were Seniors. I stopped at 4 key moments during the movie: (1) after Malcolm X's speech when he refers to MLK; (2) after a white girl asks what she can do to help his cause; (3) when X realizes the betrayal and changes his opinion toward MLK; and (4) after he changes his opinion on the help of white Americans.


I felt it was important that I asked these questions because some Seniors weren't taking notes... and the questions made them write something down so they could study from later.