Read the list. Take into account the following points while preparing your lesson: 1. Patterns of interaction
2. STT and TTT (Student Talking Time and Teacher Talking Time)
3. Learner’s involvement
4. Logical links between the stages of the lesson.
5. Addressing learning styles
6. Use of English and L1
7. Giving clear instructions
8. Monitoring
Practical Lesson 17 Giving feedback Duration: 80 min
Objectives: to provide Ss with the experience of giving feedback as a basis for further reflection and conclusions.
Materials: handouts
Warm up: (10 min)
Establish that feedback is constructive comments that one person receives from another (in our context it is mainly a student getting feedback from a teacher) and which usually serve as an action plan for improvement, that is why very often the word feedback comes with the word constructive and positive.
Activity 1(15 min)
Objective: to introduce Ss with types of feedback
Observation in micro training
Dear Nargiz:
I’d like to say that I was very glad for being an observer in your session on theme “ Education. Firstly of all, I really want to say that you have ample possibilities to be one of the great teachers of our country. I can see that in your readiness for the lesson and experience in your job. It can be clearly seen that you spend huge amount of time to plan this lesson. May be it made you to browse the internet and gather scattered information. Anyway, you made a very well-organized and greatly timed . It was really interesting and fruitful for me and for the learners. Especially, I liked the warm-up activity with questions which cheered the learners up. You gave interesting questions about theme and ask opinions from learners. The information which you gave about your theme was very useful and new for us. You tried to use more activities, handouts and picture games suitable in your theme. What I really liked in your lesson, you can encourage the students spiritually and you have a great cleverness to correct mistakes. This method always make students work at home individually. During your session I felt that the classroom was generally orderly, every student was listening to you so attentively that nothing distracted them from the learning process .Besides that, students feel in a relaxed atmosphere .This helps students cram all the information very easily. I think that you have all potential to be the best teacher.
Here are a few comments from me: You might also want to take a look at your planning pair work and group work . I thought that there was a bit unknown things for your students.
I wish you great success in your life and job. I enjoyed observing your session. Good luck in your further development.
With Love …….
FEEDBACK SESSION TRANSCRIPT: OBSERVER’S QUESTIONS
Nodira, thanks very much for having me in the lesson. How do you feel afterwards?
Did things go the way you’d expected?
Were you happy with the students’ responses to the tasks that you set?
The students were very involved. Do you think it has something to do with the topic?
You’ve asked me to give you feedback on group dynamics and interaction within the
group. How do you think the warmer helped at the beginning? Quite a lively group (of students). It wasn’t a problem to get them talking? There’s clearly a lot of friendship groups within the group. Do you know who is friendly with who in the group? I’ve noticed you used quite a few of different ways of correcting students’ mistakes. One of them was that you actually asked them to self-correct. Why would you do that? And sometimes other students in the class helped with the correction. Were you happy with that? And then there were other times where you corrected yourself. Why did you do that sometimes? I noticed that you had a fourth strategy as well and that was sometimes not to correct at all. For example, I noticed that you let Ozodbek talk for quite a long time but you didn’t correct him. Why did you leave him alone?
I also think that sometimes it is not so easy for a boy to be the only boy in a class of girls.
What do you think of that?
Maybe ‘Keeping secrets’ was more of a girls’ topic than a boys’ topic. And the group as awhole seemed to have responded very well to the language point when you got on to the
phrasal verbs. Is there a particular difficulty for Uzbek speakers or Russian speakers with
these phrasal verbs?
Just thinking about the next time you teach this class, Nodira, is there anything you plan
a little bit differently that you’d like to work some more on or change a little bit?
And you think the students are ready for that? Anything else for you to keep in mind in
your next class, particularly about error correction or managing the group dynamics?
What about pronunciation in particular, I wonder?
My impression was that perhaps pronunciation needs just a little bit more attention.
But thank you ever so much; I wish you good luck in your next class.
