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(1)Teaching Journal 2
Teaching Journal 2:
Student: Hoàng Thị Hoài Giang
The second class I observed is a Writing class at Hue College of Foreign Languages The lesson is about “What is sentence” and “What is paragraph” It’s from 3:00 pm to 4:45 pm on 25th September, 2010 with 30 first year students
In this lesson, I learnt many from the teacher
First of all, the teacher had an exciting warm- up activity by letting the students listen a nice children song named “Bingo” This can get students’ involvement more
In while- writing stage, she followed most of the exercises in workbook She asked students to exercises in pairs or individual within few minutes and then she received the answers from most of students in class Instead of doing this, the teacher can let her students spend more time in working in pairs, then taking the answers from some of students and giving feedback By doing this, she may not be very teacher- centered in class
And there was no post- writing stage It is not same as I learnt but I think it is not necessary to have post- stage in this lesson because this is the first period of first year students And it is better to help students to realize “what is sentence” and “what is paragraph” first There was no post- writing is a good choice of the teacher for this lesson
She has a clear, loud voice Also, she is a good model of English She used simple language with medium speed that was suitable for her students She had clear stages by using clear instructions that can help students identify what they would next So students could catch teacher’s idea easily and the class kept going on well
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Another good point of the teacher is that she was friendly, enthusiastic to teaching She often smiled and sometimes she called some students at lower levels, encouraged them to answer questions by using eliciting questions
The last one is that she had a good hand writing and well board use Also she had good demos for doing exercises
However, it is better for her if she gave students a specific purpose when they listened to the song “Bingo” In this activity, she could ask students to listen to the lyric of the song because in her purpose, this song has sentences, after listening to sentences, the teacher will help students to analyze “what is sentence” and start to the lesson But not good enough instruction took her more time on warm-up activity
Another thing is that she was very teacher- centered in class that I have mentioned above She set pair works, group works but in very short time So students did not have enough time to discuss and explain their answers Teacher can shorten the time for warm-up activity to ask students to write down their own sentences and their own paragraph for specific topics that students may be interested in
After observing two classes above, I think that it is quite difficult for teacher to apply all steps in theory to practice that depends more on many things outside And the most important thing is that a good teacher is setting up suitable lesson plan for their students’ aims and their own conditions