Monday 9 July 2012

Class Observation Report


Class Observation Report
Amirhosein Mardani
A-Introduction
The report is about an Elementary English class. The class consists of 4 students. All the students are adult. 3 girls and a boy. There was a white board, teacher’s desk and a laptop. Teacher is a girl about 24 years old.


B-objective
the English teacher wants to teach:
Grammar:
1-Simple past
2-how to make it positive and negative
3-how to make question form
Vocabulary:
Explain some nouns and jobs.
C-The teaching process:
The teacher started with asking some question about lessons of last session.  She tried to speak to the level of student in order to students could understand her. All students were true beginners because they have passed a term and they had a kind of background in English. When students were wrong teacher corrected them through their sentences. This is wrong way because teacher didn’t let students themselves understand their errors and also she prevent peer correction.
Then she writes a sentence on board:   “he was the third president”
In this level she tried to teach with inductive method. She started with an example and asked students: is that a positive sentence or negative? Positive, students answered. Then she wants student students to change the sentence to negative and question form. And then she explains them how the structure of sentence is made. And next she asked some another examples orally. This was deductive part of teaching; the teacher explained some roles and then went to some examples and practices. In this part of teaching grammar, the teacher followed academic way of grammar teaching. It was a completion of inductive and deductive and she started first with inductive and then went into deductive.
During her teaching of this part, she tried to concentrate on important part of lesson. For example here “was” and “were” are important words. She tried to highlight them with enhance her voice volume or some gestures.
At last for more practice she wants students to say something negative in simple past about themselves. Next job was pair working. She divided students to two groups and wants them to work on subject together. It takes about 3 minutes. After that she asked them about their work. Here she first let the students correct each other and then she went to teacher correction. So she didn’t repeat her former mistake. She let individual student understand his or her error and make an environment for peer correction and at last teacher correction.
Next part she did the same. It was about contractions. She started with inductive method and said some examples about: I am=I’m or you are=you’re. And then she writes them on board. That was deductive.
Then for more practice she asked some students that: where were your grandparents born? She did correction as the previous one.
Then for better understanding and practice she choose a person to read a simple sentence, a person for make it to negative, and a person to make it to question form.
In next part she was going to teach vocabulary part. She started this part with board, and wrote some noun and verb on board. For example: paint piano, etc. and then she made them to jobs like painter or pianist by adding suffixes. Then she went to book and said to students to do book practice. It takes about 8 minutes. Then she wants students read answers. She continued with peer correction and teacher correction. New words here were active concrete words, and they were about jobs. She gave them simplified definition. And in some extend she wants students to check dictionary.
In this stage she made some mistakes according to academic method of vocabulary teaching. Here she had to start with inductive way and make some background of new word in students mind, For example by showing some pictures and simple definitions. But she went to board and started with deductive. She didn’t use any realia. The good way is suggested here in academic methods is slot given. She didn’t prepare any pre-organized slots to give to students and practice them.
At the end of the class, they have a kind of free discussion about shopping for improving their speaking skill.



Classroom Observation Form
1. Learner-Centered
Does the instructor Challenge the students? (Give explanations of what is expected) No, the process of teaching was like a machine. Each student was waiting for teacher to explain lessons such as vocabulary or grammar. It is expected here; teacher invites students to a kind of challenge by asking them about new lessons and makes a blank space in their mind.
 Does he/she give students choice and control?
No, the class was totally under teacher’s hands and everything was followed by lesson plans.
Does he/she encourage students to work together? Yes, in each part It have been observed that teacher made some teams to working in pair in order to more practice.
 Does he/she ask open ended questions requiring a thoughtful response from students? No, all the questions were asked by teacher were easy and simple. Maybe it was because of level of students.
Does he/she provide material that is interesting and
Relevant? No, she just tried to define what is going on and I hadn’t see use of objects.
 Does he/she show respect (knows names, is polite, etc.)?
  Does he/she provide individual attention to personal learning styles? No, she did not.
 Does he/she encourages students to ask questions? Yes, for example after each part she asked is there any problem to ask? And she tried to make them to ask question.




2. Strategic End-Plan (Lesson Planning)
Does the instructor provide the class with a plan for that class?
Period? (Either verbally or a written outline) Yes, teaching was completely followed by pre-organized plan, and she followed them step by step.


 Does he/she come to the class prepared with notes, instructor aides, equipment needed, etc.? No, all the things were verbally and there was no written things and any equipment.



Does he/she explain any and all materials needed for that class period? Yes, it was complete, However it could be more completed !

Does he/she use technology such as Visualize, computer, and etc? No, there was a laptop and projector but no use in class.

3.  Resource-Rich
Does the instructor use notes /handouts/ Whiteboard/ Videos /computer presentations /demonstrations/textbooks/ Other resource materials? (if yes make a mention of any noticed) Yes just whiteboard for explaining some roles for lesson.





 


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