Week 2 Objectives - Research proposal

What is my current topic?

How students' various emotions affect the lesson and how teachers lead the best feeling for effective learning?  

Students sometimes react according to their emotions and it is difficult to catch it because their emotions are so various and change so quickly. And, of course it affects the class; environment of the class is different according to the students' state. There are many examples that the students' emotion affect learning. So, I wonder that what if teachers can catch students' feeling and use it in class? Then it might be more effective and easier to manage the course.



What are my guiding questions?

At first, I want to know teachers' opinion about the influence of students' emotion in class. There will be both negative side and positive side of the effect. Then, I can weigh up the degree of my research that will be going on. In addition, teacher is the important member of the class  and teachers should lead the course which is planned. Therefore, knowing the change of teachers' mood which is affected by students' feeling can also be an important part of my research. 

But, there are so many students in one class(about 25 to 40 in Korea). It means that each students in a class have various feelings and I cannot assure that which one is the most influential. And can 'some' students affect the whole class? ( what is the enough size of a group of students who have same emotion to affect the class?) It is important because the environment of the school in Korean is different to other countries. The class that has less students may be affected by students more easily.


What are my current thoughts?

Students' feeling affects the class. Mood is relevant to concentration which is important in learning. Actually,  one research said that emotion is important in education because it drives attention, which in turn drives learning  and memory. There are many studies indicating the facts that affect the effective classroom learning, but the research on the way to use it effectively is not enough until now. Therefore, I think my research will be useful to teachers or someone engaged in education. I want to allow people to know the way in which one should react as a leader of a class depending on the mood of the class.


What is the opposition?

*What will your opponents say? What is the common belief that you are arguing against? What counterarguments do you anticipate?*

Some people can say that to control other people's feeling is impossible. Although one can control the feeling, there are too many students in each class to care each of them.