The Critical Incidents Protocol

I want to make my reflect CIP sure to the right idea even it’s a bit late up in the air. I didn’t understand what I have to do for this. But I just want to reflect myself as our reading article did.

What happened?

One day in the first week of March in my classroom there are two students sitting at their desk listening my explanation, meanwhile one student’s coming in the class room. We greet each other. She stares me and two students studying for a little while, and then sits down the empty chair in the living room for a while.

Why did it happen?

March is not only the beginning month of the new school semester, but it is also the time for reset the after school study. For this reason, I inform my student their temporary schedule time the each because I teach them almost individually. I couldn’t set the exact their lesson schedule lesson by lesson and I have a new class for two students which usually takes long for their first class.

Two students’ class started at 6:15 and finished at 7:30.

The other student came at 6:55.

What might it mean?

I was stressed out to figure out the lesson scheduling during the first of March. And newly started class for two students which usually takes long. Sometimes I suffer from time constraint for dealing hectic schedule. As weeks go by, at least students don’t need to wait for their class, but I always have difficult managing lessons for start and finish on time. If all my students understood well as I expected, classes wouldn’t take long.

What are the implications for my practice?

I might reflect superficial analysis, but I think I’m in the early stage of analytic thinking, so I need practices to move further from easy to deep analysis.

For release those things, I should give each class more time or I give some more break time between classes. As a teacher, I need to lead my students an effective ways and to be motivated, but if the teacher isn’t comfortable to focus their teaching by barriers and haste it might end in waste to both the students and a teacher.

Topic for thesis

After last writing class, i've been thinking about topic for my thesis, and i found that our sociery is so much into the multimedia tools. As we can see, we are surrounded by high developed muti tools, even our cell phones allow us to access so much informaion not only for studying but also for experiencing various thing. Besides Korean government announced that public schools nationwide will employ the digital text books by 2015. If this adaption goes well, i think it is worth studying how we can use it efficiently and what other tools or systems can be used. So, i founds one thesis that studied in 2007 titled 'Infusing multimodal tools and digital literacied into an English Education program.' I will find some more later on, which  lead me my own concept for study.

My response to Academic writing

Looking thoroughly the twenty one tasks by categorized from audience, purpose, organization, style, flow, and presentation, I could find the more clear way to build my further writings being academical. By careful reading these tasks I have exact concept of the academic writing to be formal with verbs, noun, and sentences which I know few before I read detailed explanations.

One thing that I pleased to know among various guide lines was 7 rules nonvocabulary-related recommendations from Language Focus section from page18 to 19. Knowing these ways makes me think that my further writing can be more neat and concise.

Also, when we do both self correction and peer correction, we can use these guide lines as criteria. Hope my writings can meet all these need.

'Plagiarism thought'

In my idea of plagiarism is that someone who doesn’t quite sure about the seriousness about that can possibly do so. But I guarantee that sometimes it happens unintentionally.

My point is that I mostly agree about Yamada’s ideas on EFL plagiarism. Especially I have also experienced that my previous writing a few years ago to make my writing polished and elaborate even my ideas too narrow to do so. Another point which evokes my sympathy from a Rational Response to Plagiarism is the writing instructors can’t be detectives but advisors and helpers. I’ve been strongly felt fear for writing itself and being graded. I  agree indeed that my writing will be graded by professor but it is worth to get improved.

Therefore students should take closer look at what plagiarism is and how serious it can be at the right time to be fully aware of that, and be creative without any fear.