Two sections are arranged for us to visit Taipei Municipal Lishan Junior High School: firist, to inspect and learn from the teaching materials and students’ research projects of “English Gifted Resource Class.”(EGRC) Secondly, to observe Class 912 taught by their English teacher, Miss Liu. While seeing their fruitful results, it makes me wonder how great effort teachers and students have put in, and they must spend lots time in achieving this goal. Their teaching materials include listening, speaking, reading, and “writing.” They encourage students to write a play, a short fiction, and a poem. Besides that, the evaluation of student’s esaay consist of four parts, such as grammar, content…etc. So students would get more than one grade from his/her essay, and would know which part they perform well and what they should improve more. Later, visiting the demo class, not the EGRC, we still learn a lot from the way that the teacher uses powerpoint and handout to review grammar lesson. First, through the image/ picture to teach the students grammar, she successfully attracts their attention and inspires them to learn. Secondly, the interaction by using powerpoint in the dark classroom still works very well, and it may be contributed by the well-design ppt made by the teacher. Thridly, in the end of the class, she uses 10 minutes to evaluate students’ learning by asking the questions from ppt. In this way, she can give a quick review of the lesson, and immediately understand students’ acquirment. Cheers~
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Alice said,
May 4, 2007 @ 6:10 am
The students’ portfolios indeed were very impressive. I like the idea of giving students grades based on different aspects. The teachers’ feedbacks would help students to know more about their own strengths and weaknesses in terms of writing. In addition, as we can see, writing is taught through a process with different stages: drafts, revisions and final products. All the writings were kept in a chronological order in the folder. They are evidences of a person’s growth. The teachers must have spent a lot of time grading the papers, but the students’ progress and accomplishment prove that their efforts pay off completely.
I observed the same class as you did. I like her personality very much because she showed that even a teacher would make a mistake. She saved herself from embarrassment by giving a joke. However, there was one very serious mistake that the teacher repeated. In this case, I was afraid that the teacher might have given a wrong rule without knowing it. It might happen to an experience teacher, let alone a novice one. Even though I’m sure the teacher would find out the mistake in the end, the students might feel it confusing since the first impression sometimes is not easy to change. Therefore, I have to remind you to examine your teaching materials carefully before presenting them in class. An accidental and minor is OK, but a serious one would certainly have a negative impact.