Perspectives for professional work with children and young people

This year I have been in Nepal for my Practical placement. Nepal is a country in process of development whose primary source of income is tourism. The society's core values are honesty, helpfulness, respect for other cultures and satisfaction to others. Still remains a country that lacks socially years to evolve as the role that women play in it.For my Practical Placement, I was working in a school with children from fourteen to eighteen years. My experience in communication and adaptation in another culture working at school, has to do with the values I have mentioned before.When teaching at tha school, the methodology  I applied was the one  that I had experienced during my years as a student and I assumed it would work.After the first two weeks of class, it seemed that the children responded well to the methodology but when creating a new activity for them, I realized that something was wrong.After explaining the activity on the board, make sketches and ask if anyone had any doubt they all started to do the exercise. My surprise was that it had been ten minutes doing who wrote in silent but they have not written anything.

After thinking about what I might have missed, I thought about the possibility that they only said they had no doubts in order  to please and so it was. Students never acknowledged his doubts, not looking or asking for help because their culture is not well seen to disagree with someone who is above you, as is the case of  the the teacher-student relationship.

The known difficulties which were mainly found in the comucation. Take for granted things that for me are seen as normal beacuse of the culture I'm coming from like  when a student has questions or does not know an activity the teacher has the obligation to help are not the same. The student does not ask questions or have  any doubts, just learn by heart and never disagree with the teacher. Therefore, the change in methodology for the rest of the practical placement was the solution for both the students and I in order to learn and understand each other better: collective activities and individualized correction, exercises on the board, open-response questions, exercises of expression of opinion, etc..