A regular public university clasroom:
Students talking before class starts. Professor starts talking. Students stop talking. Professor starts and leads class. Students are quiet. Professor ends class. Students start talking.
What I experienced today in a regular public university classroom in Sevilla:
Students talking before class starts. Professor starts talking. Students continue to talk. Professor starts and leads class. Students are loud and obnoxious. Professor still keeps on talking and doesn't mind the obnoxious chatter about how Juan Antonio broke up with his girlfriend or what Alejandra did last weekend. Professor the stops talking and just sits on chair and starts playing on his cellphone. (It was probably Angry Birds). Professor ends class 30 minutes before it ends. Good class right?
Some facts and little background information of what I had just described:
Class name: Sociology of Education
School: School of Education (Facultad de las ciencias de educacion)
Consists of: The future teachers of espana
My take on the situation:
I wish I taped it. I was so confused when everyone just started talking and once I finally figured out what they were talking about I realized it had nothing to do with sociology or education whatsoever. The professor didn't seem to care and so the students just kept on talking. It was a perfect example of classroom management gone wrong; which, is really intersting considering this is a class about education and I would think the students would be a little more focused on it since they are all going to be future teachers. Anyway, I have to drop atleast one of my classes this week since we're only allowed to take four and sadly this might be one of them considering what happened today. Very different from the classes I take over in the Lindquist center back in Iowa...
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