The school visit to Long Man Junior High School
April 4, 2008 at 5:25 pm | In Pam's LEARNING | 1 Comment
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
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Opening |
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| Before we entered the classroom, Teacher Gina has already started to teach the vocabulary….. | ||
| Body | ||
| Vocabulary Teaching | Presentation:☆ Meaning
1. By relating what the students have known before, ex. review/ preview- the teacher mentioned “view” first then explained the prefixes. 2. By adding some phrases that are in common use and mentioned theirs Chinese meaning in an informal way first to raise students’ interest, ex. learn- 向我學著點learn from me. ☆ Pronunciation 1. By using the word cards (the vowel is highlighted.) 2. By demonstrating, the teacher pronounced the word first then asked students to repeat with her. |
Basically, the pattern of interaction was teacher-led, but during the teaching, Teacher Gina kept asking her students questions to attract them, and evaluate their learning. |
| Grammar Teaching | Presentation:☆ Sentence Pattern
1. By using the text book, and wrote some extra information or compare on the blackboard, ex. must→ don’t have to. 2. By making some sentences with students which may raise students’ interest, ex. by-看你的眼睛我就知道你在騙我! By looking your eyes, I know you are lying! |
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| Practice:1. Asking students to do the practices in the text book.
2. Let students answer the questions randomly by playing a small game. (the teacher picked a number of a student from a box, then when she announced it, people around the student have to stand up quickly, and the most slowly one must answer the question.) |
Students did the practices by individual work, and teacher walked close to them, checking if they have any questions. | |
| Closure | ||
| The bell rang while the teacher was checking the answers of grammar practices, she stopped it and told her students these will be continued next time, and then she reminded them not to forget to bring something for the lesson of tomorrow. Finally, she dismissed the class by saying “Thank you, students.” and got their response “Thank you, teacher.” | ||
| Feedback | ||
| I would like to say if I were Teacher Gina’s student, I will like her! “She is so young!” I blurted it out when I saw her. We had a talk after class that made us know her more. This is her first year in Long Man, and she told us it is necessary for teachers to build up a good relationship between us and students, that can definitely help us to teach more easily, but no matter how friendly we are, teachers still have to state their stands. In this way, I did see an excellent interaction in her class. For example, during the class, when she found that there is a student didn’t pay attention on her, she called on him and asked such a funny question “What kind verb should be put after the auxiliary verb?” “Choice1 rectangle verb, Choice2 square, Choice3 circle verb.” To translate into Chinese: 長方形動詞,正方形動詞,圓形(原型)動詞.That made all the students laugh, and emphasized the grammar point again at the same time. She is so witty, isn’t she? And I think it also a kind of class management. Then, to ask students answer the questions by the game could not only relax class atmosphere but also give more chances for students to participate in the activity.
Beyond the interaction, fluent teaching was also showed in Gina’s class. Her writing is so neat and beautiful, and since her pacing is a little bit quick (for me), she would slow down when she explained the points or pronounced the new words. Nevertheless, there were still some students didn’t concentrate on the lesson, especially when Gina taught the grammar, she noticed their distraction, and then she told her students something that set me thinking a lot…. “Grammar is boring; it’s absolutely no fun of explaining, even in the P.E. class, you won’t feel interesting when the teacher is explaining the steps. So please find delight in it by yourself.” Although we saw the great interaction occurred in her class, that doesn’t mean all the students enjoyed learning and did learn. Obviously Gina taught in a traditional way, isn’t that way the problem? No way! We just can not stop trying to enhance students’ leaning interests and motives in any ways. |
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I still remembered that when I saw Teacher Yang running into the conference room, I was very impressed by his enthusiasm and energy. However, I felt depressed immediately because I had no chance to observe Teacher Yang’s class. It was a pity, wasn’t it?
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