Pamela’s Box

 After reading the lesson plans, I realized the importance of  planning ability to an English teacher. How an English teacher makes students involve in their learning. And task-based activities here bring  its merits into full play on speaking, since everybody has his/her own responsibility to their  group. I think peer pressure and feedback becomes supervision to push the students to pursue a great score.  

 However, one of the biggest barrier to teacher teach speaking, is the “English-clammed students”, who shut up like a clam when the teacher ask them to speaking English.  Accordind to my teacher interview, the teacher told me that her students are afraid of making mistakes, and always feel embarrassing when she call on them to answer in English, so she will call on a row of them and arrange a small competition among two rows, or hane some satisfied students to lead whole class to read. To compare with task- based activities, I consider the teacher’s method is a passive approach, but it is still one way to make student speak English.

 These weeks, we had several discussions which made a little difference on sharing. For me, to reform us into another group, really made me feel responsible to my group. I became more nervous and  concentrated on listening and when I shared the opinions from my original group, I would try harder to let others understand what I said, because that were not just about my own thought but also my members’. Besides, I truly appreciated that if I can’t speakink English, I won’t survive in our class. (That’s why I always feel exhausted after class…..)

 In short, what I experienced let me think toward how to make students get used to speak English in class. Instead of asking, it is more positive to adapt students to the English environment. Then, how to teach speaking has become the further process.  

Dears, here are the pictures of our visit in Long Man!

 Campus tour

“After entering Long Man, you’ll find both our classrooms and hallways are very spacious, then why we built such a huge campus? All of us know the environment education, we believe this spacious space can cultivate students a capacious mind….” Teacher Ben said.

 In the beginning, we heard an unlucky piece of news, the observation of Teacher Ben’s class was cancelled…. It was quite a pity that we lost the chance to observe Ben’s teaching, he’s such an energetic and enthusiastic teacher, but he guided us to visit their magnificent campus instead, and that was a wonderful experience for me.  

 I have never thought I would take picture of a campus crazily, what an incredible place! In the hallway; there is even an information board above telling you where to go! The equipment of this school is not only complete, but also artistic and considerate! Seeing is believing! I will update the pictures later then you can show them to amaze your friends! 

 Discussion

 We had a short discussion with the teachers after visiting the campus. Besides Teacher Ben and Alice, we met Teacher Huang at that time. She came into the conference room, carring a  small basket! According to Alice, that’s a particular scene in Long Man. What’s she carring? Contact books! Which is getting larger and larger nowadays. Then the small basket helps a lot, when the teachers have to carry a pile of large contact books or student’s homework.

 Come back to the discussion, by anwsering Marliyn and Leo’s questions the teachers did give us many advices and also encourage us much, and their efforts of being a teacher really left an great impression on me, especially Ben, who has set his goal and started to pursue it hard since he was a university student. But I just can’t find the same enthusiam in myself…. Howerver, from the teachers’ sharing, I realized that no matter how the future will be or when it is coming, I won’t get any chances unless I get ready.

 Class observation