Vignette 1: Descriptive Reflection
The situation I am about to describe comes from a video that I will describe below.
In the video that I viewed, there is a class of six boys and a male teacher. The students are sitting in rows, two by three, at individual desks. The class is about to start reviewing American history when one of the students, Dan, appears to be disconnected from the rest of the class. When the teacher tells the class that they are about to begin the lesson, Dan immediately starts to roll his head back in frustration, slaps his book down on his leg and immediately turns to the student on his left and taps him on his shoulder, trying to get his attention.
Immediately, from my own schooling experience in late primary school and throughout high school, I could tell that this was going to end in disaster for both the teacher and Dan. Already, I can see the tension starting to build and the growing frustration for both Dan and the teacher.
The teacher begins asking the students who the Axis powers were and a few students in the front start to answer, however, the teacher’s attention is immediately shifted from the students and onto Dan, telling him to ‘stop being disruptive’, in a commanding tone. The teacher moves on with the next question ‘who were the Allies’, and again the same students respond but, this time…
