OBSERVATION WRITE-UP

Observing the students while teacher is teaching

As per the requirement of completing the internship we were requested to conduct an observation based on a lesson conducted by an experienced teacher.  

Experienced Teacher observation was conducted on 7th of  November 2019. I observed the teaching session conducted by the experienced teacher in grade 8-D class. The lesson was basically based on present perfect tense. It comprised the note that teacher had written on the board and the activity from the workbook. 

The class was consisted of 40 female students from Janadhipathi Balika Vidyalaya. Though the class was noisy and students seemed to be restless, they all were calm as soon as the teacher entered into the classroom. It could be observed that students are scared of teacher and teacher was able to control her students.

Teacher started the lesson with greeting and asked a few  questions from the previous lesson since the two lessons were connected. I learnt that this technique is a solid one to be utilized in the classroom in order to activate students' schemata. Moreover, her classroom management was in a good standard where the teacher managed the classroom well by attending to the students needs. 

 Considering, teacher talk vs student talk, It was clear that teacher talk was high because students were not much involved in the learning process. It would have been more productive if the teacher could incorporate more  student-centered activities and provide students an opportunity to speak in the classroom. She used pair activity which was also not succeed.  At the end of the lesson, she randomly selected a few students and asked answers for the activities. On the contrary, none of the students were responded. Simultaneously, I had seen the effort that teacher put in order to make students speak in the class. It could be observed that students were fed up in the classroom and they did not understand the lesson, that was the reason that the students could not respond to the questions of the teacher. Moreover, Teacher used L2 in the classroom. She sometimes used L1 to give the explanations of the lesson.

Teacher assisted and monitored the learners who need the help to do the activities by attending them individually.   There was no sufficient balance and variety in the materials, tasks and activities.  Teacher's major focus was on the textbook only. I assumed that if there was a sufficient balance in the materials and activities, the students could have answered teachers' questions. 

Therefore, this experience was given me a chance to reflect upon myself about both positive and negative practices that I was employed as a student teacher. Then,  that was given me a chance to get rid of negative teaching practices while working on improving  solid teaching  practices.