As I briefly mentioned in class in my presentation on teacher attitude in the classroom, on one day of my field experience, I observed an ESOL class.
In this class, there was a second teacher (ESOL teacher), aside from my normal field experience teacher.
This teacher was very stern, and often resorted to making fun of the students and responding very sarcastically to their normal antics.
In one instance, after one of the students had been disruptive during a test, she asked him to apologize to her and the class, in front of the room. After the boy apologized, this teacher responded with, "Isn't that much better than being nasty to me?"
This same boy is the one I had mentioned in mine and Olivia's presentation, whom had been sitting near a window and playing with the blinds. This teacher addressed him twice and the student still didn't listen. After a third time, she had asked him why he was acting like a baby, and did he want to be treated like a baby. She then proceeded to pat him on the back as if she was burping him.
At another point in this class, this ESOL teacher began resorting to insulting the students in Spanish, and calling them idiots. She also said the following, "I feel sorry for you that laughed and can't control that..." after a student's phone went off in the classroom.
While observing all of this, I realized that this teacher's sarcastic nature wasn't well responded to by the students. Most of them appeared scared by her, which isn't a good quality a teacher should have.
I wasn't given the opportunity to observe her again, but I'm hoping that this particular day happened to be a "bad" day for her.
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