SESSION 4: BECOMING JOURNALISTS FOR A DAY!

Good morning! 

Had you got any magic dream on last night? I began with a new session of my educational plan with such a nice question to make them feel connected with the class just with that type of touching question. As they were able to prepare a questionnaire for Richard, an inhabitant from Campins but that belongs to Wales, I also introduced them this theme through two videos about the parts of an interview.

From a general view, I have chosen videos to refresh their minds behind the question ‘how to make an interview with success’ because they all looked as seeming very similar to reality, and also with a different touch of creativity and visual attraction. After sharing common visions about them and get the sequence for creating a clear questionnaire, we moved on to think questions that could be interesting to know better Richard.

To do this, they had a worksheet to write their answers while I was writing them on the Interactive Digital Board. I liked how I gave them time to say an extended list of questions making reference to name, age, hobbies,… that were bound to get to know about him in deeper detail.  Finally, I can now verify that they reached a total of 20 questions, so there were two questions per person to be pronounced.

In reference to this last word, I prepared for them nearly real microphones to say the question as if they were current journalists from the BBC Channel! To close this fourth session, we did two several actions that I consider they were motivating them since the mere beginning: first of all, uttering the questions turn by turn with their best voice and writing then an email for Richard all together from my Gmail account to know the place where he would like to meet.

From this class, I can mention that what comes to mind is a common ingredient: learning by doing. It does signify that if they know that they are strengthening and learning in order to apply it, results in terms of didactics and meaningful enrichement tend to become more positive both for the teacher and the group. I believe that this is also because they can participate in an ordered way as they are feeling understood. I imagine myself in a future preparing those types of sessions with a group of students that want to know more and more as these ten pupils do now.

Before lunch time, we received news from Richard: he said that he preferred to meet at school on next Friday's afternoon at 3 o’ clock as he loves a lot this centre! They started to laugh and feel comrtable as a symbol that he was seeming to be interested in coming questions.