The paper reflects on my experience during the teaching practicum. Initially, it analyses the strategies my Mentor Teacher (MT) adopted in her teaching and interaction with the students. Additionally, it analyses the techniques I employed to motivate, monitor, and manage students during my teaching practice. Finally, it discusses how I will improve my teaching in terms of instructional strategies, classroom interaction, objectives-activities-assessments alignment, and classroom management. Reflection on classroom observation Instructional strategies My MT succeeded in applying various instructional strategies. She fused the Presentation-Practice-Production (PPP) method, Audiolingual Teaching (ALT) method, and Grammar Translation (GT) method in her teaching. Take a listening-speaking class as an example, when illustrating how to tell time using the classic way (e.g., a quarter to nine), my MT connected it with students’ prior knowledge – telling time using the digital way (e.g., eight forty-five). Then, to ensure the illustrations were explicitly delivered, she used Chinese to explain the differences between the use of “past” and “to” in telling time. Furthermore, blackboard drawings were displayed to show the contrasts. Hence, the abstract concept was visualized and it was relatively easy for students to perceive …show more content…
As a rule, students needed to be nominated before answering. Occasionally, my MT would give verbal compliments (e.g., “Good”), but generally she would rephrase the elicited forms and hurry forward to the next topic. Yet, such “ritualized responses” functioned to judge students’ production of the form regardless of the content (Thornbury, 1996), which might not promote teacher-student interaction. Beyond that, students were constantly concerned about whether their answers would be affirmed or rejected, resulting in constrained
This article “Terrific Teaching Tips” by Laurel Borgia and Carol Owles, with contributions by Julie Frisch, Louise Stearns, and Lindsay Craig, are all inspired teachers looking to improve effective strategies to produce better instruction methods. Educators are constantly researching to discovery how to create a better setting which benefit the students in acquiring learning skill. By motivating a childs mind with the use of manipulatives in order to better grasp understanding. What do good readers do? They discuss what they have read, what better way to use manipulatives to engage in class discussion.
Also, by writing on the board the student’s answer will help students look back on the answers. When working on their group they could have gone back to the example, and refocused themselves on what they should be looking when thinking of the characters viewpoint. Being visually creating in the beginning of teaching the lesson would have avoided students to become confused when working with their group
This was due to the fact that her teacher, Miss Schmidt, used to be an expert and didn’t take suggestions from younger students, nor did she seem inviting to students to have them suggest to her their ideas. However, the glorious day came when Miss Schmidt decided to change things up in terms of how she teaches. This time, Miss Schmidt asked Cathy Davidson how she felt and if she would
Carol came in John’s office, claiming that she needed help with the course material. John let her come in, even though it was not during his office hours and other personal issues already preoccupied him. Their conversation was often disrupted by phone calls between John and his wife, with whom he discussed private problems. Carol asked John to clarify the meaning of “term of art,” which he used in the conversation with his wife. At that moment, both already had crossed a boundary needed between teachers and students.
There are many multiple ways to teach in the classroom that accommodate all students. I have previously discussed my four learning models that address TPE 4: Making Content Accessible. In my classroom I consistently use: Hands-on Learning, Collaborative Projects, Experimental Learning and Direct Teaching. It is essential that these
15). In a concept map, each word or phrase is connected to another and linked back to the original idea, word, or phrase. Concept mapping is considered a valuable active teaching method because it prompts learners to make connections and establish relationships between new concepts and prior schema (McMillan, 2010; Pottier et al., 2010; Sadler et al., 2015). Learners use graphic representations to depict their understanding of the meaning of a set of concepts, to organize and represent knowledge, to summarize and analyze their ideas, and to visualize their thinking (Lee et al., 2013). Concept maps have been used effectively in nursing education since 1984 (Daley & Torre, 2010; Harris & Zha,
Mrs. Tijerina even uses her personal time to create activities that she will use on her class ( 88 hours payed,10-15 of her free time). To perform her work Mrs. Tijerina uses teaching strategies such as group work, guided practice, on-hands activities (labs), individual practice, class discussion among others, but also equally important is the way she manage her class room, in order to promote more easily education and maintain control the students, she uses techniques such as restroom passes, assigned sits, parents and students conferences. Ultimately, all hard work pay off, even if Mrs. Tijerina have some challenges as a teacher, all are worth with the “Aaah” moment, which she describe as the moment in which a student understand something that they didn’t
In many high schools across the nation, valedictorians are appointed to represent the senior class at graduation. Many people see the valedictorian as the best student in the entire class or maybe just the most popular. Either way, stakes are high when appointing a single student to this position, and much controversy has been discovered as to what qualifies a student to become the one. Academics are generally the aspect that principals consider most when deciding. In “Best in Class,” author Margaret Talbot uses rhetoric devices such as effective quotes and expressive personal anecdote, two assets tied to ethos, to support her claim that appointing a single valedictorian is an unfair custom among U.S. high schools.
CHAPTER FOUR: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 5.1 Discussion and Conclusions This study explored the components of Lesson Study, which impacts, on the respondent’s teaching and student learning. This chapter discusses the results and offers an analysis of how the study results emphasis on the initial research questions as well as connect to literature review of the study. The discussion is arranged on the basis of research question. Summary of Findings Participants interview, observations and from many literature this study explore that TSN through Lesson Study is an innovative teaching approach comes from Japan.
(1) Develop a strategy to enhance a high degree of collective efficacy among the new teachers and indifferents. What mastery experiences are needed, and how will you get them for your teachers? What kinds of models or other vicarious experiences should your teachers have, and where will they get them? What kind of activities will be useful to persuade teachers that they can improve the proficiency of their students? What kind of affective state is needed in your school to develop the collective efficacy that you need?
Class Observation Summary #1 My two day observation took place at Summit Academy high school. It is a school of about 700 students located in the city of Romulus MI. The teacher, Mrs. Jill Carbone allowed me to observe the 6th hour class for two days for 60 minutes each day. This class is composed of 11 English language learners (ELL); ten of the students are Spanish speakers and one student is Urdu speaker.
In this assignment, I will be writing on how to apply the principles of pedagogy in my area of specialism. Effective teacher uses diverse teaching strategies and universal approaches that suit situations, different strategies in different grouping of learners to improve learning outcomes, There are different teaching styles that suit different learners backgrounds and ability. Teachers are ldentified in their profession as ‘learning specialist’ , and there are five principles of good pedagogy which are Motivation, Exposition, Direction of activity and Inviting imitation. Andragogy is the best approach for effective delivery and pedagogy, both approaches must be used to ensure effective delivery. The principle is the idea of the curriculum and requirement of my subject area, I adopted pedagogy and andragogy that learners will understand The word motivation preceeds teaching at all times the teacher is preparing for delivery of effective and engaging instructional process.
But many pupils do not have adequate Language proficiency to learn from this excessive verbalism. Hence it interferes with effective class-room communication. To avoid excessive verbalismthe teacher may use a variety of instructional materials like charts, diagrams, specimens, models, tape recorders, sound films, video-cassettes and many others which use the best of the communication techniques to transmit the subject
Although the lesson plan’s primary objective is to improve the overall quality of teaching to benefit students, this also improves teacher motivation and development. This is achieved through using the lesson plan as a permanent record of lessons taught. In the case where the lesson has been
Through these teaching approaches to teaching, educators can gain a better understanding of how best to govern their classrooms, implement instructional and connect with their students. Within each category of teacher and student centeredness and tech usage, there are specific teaching roles or methods of instructor behaviour that feature their own unique mix of leaning and assessment practise. TEACHER-CENTRED METHODS OF INSTRUCTION DIRECT INSTRUCTION Direct instruction refers to general term as traditional teaching strategy that relies on explicit teaching through lectures and teacher-led