Let me tell my new observation!

As usual, the teacher did not forget to check the homework. :) Then she asked a question to the
students for "warm up" part. The question was "What were you doing at this time yesterday?". So we can realize that the teacher would focus on one of the grammar point, past continuous-past simple.
Some students answered in short.
Then worksheets -which the teacher distributed last lesson- were examined detailly. If there was a wrong answer, it was discussed.

After checking homework, the teacher stressed "which one is longer action?" in the sentences. For instance; 'As he was driving to work, he remembered that his briefcase was still at home.' In this sentence, the longer action is "driving". (Grammar was taught indirectly)

The teacher promised to review all of the units next week for the exam "to motive the students" for the lesson. Then she said: "But we should finish this unit today."

After then, keep going on listening a dialogue from the smartboard and filling the gaps activity. (Pronunciation + Listening skills) The dialogue was not understood by some students. To solve this problem, the teacher explained the text through repeating the sentences. (If I were her maybe I would use a mini-drama to trigger not only verbal but also visual skills.)

There was a different activity from the book "answer the questions". The teacher asked the students to write the answers to make the grammar permanent.

The second part of the lesson, one of the student helped the teacher as her assistant. She opened the smartboard and she asked the students listen to the text. (During the listening activity the teacher interfered with her assistant because some instructions which the assistant student gave couldn't be understood by the rest of the class.)

While doing the listening activity, the teacher motivated the students by saying "you are good listeners", "you are good at listening".

The last part of the lesson there was a dialogue between the teacher and the students like:

-Anıl, what did you do on saturday? -I read a book.

-Which book? (She always tries to keep the dialogue with the students)

-Berkay, what did you do on sunday?

According to these dialogues, the lesson was summarized basically.

This blog was my second observation for the internship dairy.

See you on next page and next experiences! :)

31.10.2014

Internship in Bahçelievler Anatolian High School

I have been in an internship period as an English Teacher. I visit Bahçelievler Anatolian High School every week to observe the teachers and the students. Then I will share my observations on this page.

By the way this is my first experience, as official, on teaching.

 

First Day

This week I have observed 10th grade students who use "Solutions Türkiye, A2" in English lessons.

Ezgi -my friend- and I entered the class with the teacher. The teacher greeted the students then she introduced us to them. Greetings and attendance take 15 minutes. (It's too long for me) 

The teacher asked a question to the students about their previous homework, "Check your homework notes, if you have any question ask me now!".

Then she started the lesson with an exercise from the book (There is not a warm up activity to motivate the students for the lesson) but she spoke in English during the lesson to make the students focus on the lesson. Even if they asked a question in Turkish, she answered in English.

The unit contains of four skill activities -mainly focused on listening- is about "hobbies". There are a lot of listening activities in the book and the teacher didn't skip them, this makes me feel pleased because English teachers generally do not pay attention on listening activities, unfortunately. By the way I have realized that it is easy to apply listening activities by using smartboard (The teacher often uses smartboard for activities).

When the teacher asks a question to someone, she tries to sustain the dialogue with the student. For example;

Teacher: "What are your hobbies Melda?"

Student: "Shopping, dancing,..."

Teacher: "Hmm, you like shopping. What kind of shopping, outfit?"

Student: "Yes, I like it."

Sometimes, she posed questions to the students according to the exercise to relate it with real life. For example;

(There is a vocabulary activity, the word is "patient")

Teacher gives a sentence "Teachers should be patient but they are usually impatient." Then asks "What about your parents, are they patient?"

-Students answers.

The teacher always turned back to the former activities to relate all of the activities in the unit. This is important for providing recycle vocabulary.

When the students were answering the questions the teacher interrupted them to correct grammar and pronunciation mistakes. (There should be indirect error-correction not to make the students feel distracted.)

Except the examples, I realized that there was a teacher-centered class.

I feel excited for my next observation. I will write my opinions as soon as I attend the lesson of 10/F.

See you soon!