Observation

Observing a school class and sitting down in the class room without interacting can be quiet boring... NOT IN NEPAL... where everything is different.

So we started off working within the DACS school by observing teachers and students with the help of observation sheets we had prepared the weekend before. We soon found out that the teaching methods really differ from what we've seen during our work and time in German schools. The parrot learning method is dominating every lesson. It means that the teacher is giving a definition and all students have to repeat it as a group. We hardly never experienced any creative ways of teaching like group or individual work.

Another big Nepali habbit is the grading of students by marks and exam results. At the beginning of every day's first lesson each student is called by his/her name to check his/her attendance. Student number 1 automatically is the best in class and student number 12 the least talented one. Most less talented students can easily be recognized by their poor English knowledge. Some students read in 8th grade and can not say or understand a single English sentence while the best students keep up with our team's English.

We could also observe the signal that reached us back in Germany already. The less talented students can not follow class and participate in the questioning of the teacher. Therefore they receive bad marks.

Further down you will find a summary of all our observation results:
Observation of teachers
Observation of students
General observation