Classroom Observation 2
WEEK 4
Instructor evaluated: Wallace Reynolds Date: 23rd. April, 2012 (Monday)
Course: 12:00 - 13:45 English for
Journalists Number of students present: 7
Evaluator(s) Misfer Alqahtani (The Ocean)
As a member of "The Ocean
group" I attended the teaching session for a classroom observation with
the above mentioned teacher and his lecture was about an interesting topic. He discussed
the best ways of gathering information about the person who will be interviewed,
different ways of making an interview, types of questions, and types of
listening and signs of listening. 
His teaching skills he used were
very good because there had been variety of teaching activities applied and he
used the documentary camera as a tool of his teaching aids but the scrip of
some sheets was very small and I think he should pay attention to this point
because some students at the back might face difficulty in reading what was
written on the whiteboard. In addition, I noticed that he spent very long time reviewing the previous information that he had
taught and I think it would be better and enough if he spent about 5 - 7 minutes on the review.
He was very polite with us and with his students, however,, I noticed that he
did not introduce us to his students and did not explore his teaching
objectives and aims at the start of his class.
In general, his lecture was
interesting because as I mentioned above he used some useful teaching tasks,
such as pair work, group work and individual work and his students were very
attentive, there had been interaction and he was humor with his students. In
fact, I liked his lecture.
You wrote that the teacher did not introduce you to his students. Do you think it had an impact on students' attitude, e.g their participation at some point during the session ?
ReplyDeleteDid you benefit from this session in the sense that you could use interviewing as a method to foster your own students' learning ?
I am not sure about if there had been any impact on students becuase I do not remember now, but I mean that it could better for students' learning atmosphere if they knew who we were.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the other question yes, I think I can apply the techniques of interviewing with my students to have them practice both skills of speaking and listening, it might help them too much because the English language in my country is a foreign one and most students are weak in these two skills
Thanks for your answers Misfer. I agree that my questions came a bit late for you to recall exactly what happened. Generally speaking I would also take some time to introduce the guests /observers to any group to avoid negative impact on the learning atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteGood to know that you consider asking your students to interview each other. They might enjoy that activity and improve their listening and speaking skills at the same time.
Br David