Students. My goodness! How do they have so much to talk about. Bethany is teaching them choreography for their upcoming concert and the students will not stop talking about anything. I have no idea how they have so many topics to discuss! Frankly it is impressive and a little frustrating at the same time. But to me the students have learned to become such great mulri-taskers because of thi terrble habit.They will be talking during the entire class and they still can kind of catch onto what is supposed to be happening.
It was also amazing to me at how much time it had taken to get the students into lines. The decision one what row they wanted to be in was such a high level of commitment you would think Bethany was asking them to pick out their new life partner. It was borderline ridiculous. Once they had all settled into some sort of semblance of a line, the talking continued at full force because they could decide to stand next to whomever they desired.
Where Bethany may not have been using this in the past in her classroom, she had a microphone to help project herself in the classroom. I am not sure exactly my views on this now. I never really felt comfortable with the idea of a microphone in the classroom. For some reason it makes me feel like it distances the teachers and the students because there is a divide of machine and man. But with such a large setting, where there are so many students and only one teacher, the demand for the technology is rather high if not just to save the voice of the instructor. There is not a reason in the world that a profession should affect the health of the worker.
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