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Class 1c
We were invited to look into a beginners' class. The children are in their first year at school after 2 years of nursery school for most of them. The teacher, who is very experienced and competent, had a hard time to quiet the class down after the big break. The children would just not stop talking or rummaging in their satchels, and one girl stubbornly insisted on finishing her drawing before turning to anything like writing.
Pupils sit in various seating arrangements, one of these is two rows in the front facing the blackboard, the other is workstations of 3 desks with 6 pupils facing each other. The five pupils with non-German mother tongue are distributed in all areas of the class and are totally unobtrusive, with one exception maybe. The other extremely difficult child is the Austrian girl with the drawing.
It is a class like any other. Whatever it is that is making this class difficult at the moment, it is not the foreign children.
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