Juliana CW#3

For the third cultural workshop we talked about classroom behavior and student-teacher relationships.
I worked with one of the same students from my previous group, Jamilla from Burkina Faso, and one other TEFL student. We had a small group that week. We discussed how students were to behave in class. One thing that I found interesting was that apparently in Burkina Faso, teachers share student grades with the class. Here, grades are generally private unless a student receives an outstanding grade and is recognized for their achievement. We would usually never shame a student in front of others if they received a poor grade.

As for student-teacher relationships, in Burkina Faso, students always raise their hand before speaking and refer to their teachers as Mr./Ms. Last Name or Professor Last Name. In the US, that is usually the case but there are times when students and teachers have a closer relationship, to the point where it may be acceptable to call the teacher by their first name. This is not particularly common but it does happen, especially at the university level, not so much the elementary through high school level.