Sunday, April 25, 2010


1.Gain attention – she gained an attention of the students by explaining and demonstrating the action by herself at first.
2. Identify objective/informing learners of the objective - she identified the objects and showed how it should work, how the game should work, to which topic it is related.
3. Recall prior learning/stimulating recall of prior learning – because they were learning new topic I could not identify the recalling topic of the lesson.
4. Present stimulus – she gave definition of each room she was explaining and in which room the particular equipment or things are used mostly.
5. Guide learning- first of all she demonstrated how the game works; she did the actions pointing each word and explaining the meaning of each word.
6. Elicit performance – then she asked them to perform the actions or game.
7. Provide feedback – she was saying good or bad but she did not totally give the feedbacks to the students and did not correct their mistakes but leave not answered question and continued the game. The mistakes or not answered questions were going on with other students so that other students correct or control the answers.
8. Assess performance- in the game she provided students or each team with scores and with little remediation in the second game but not fully explained the reason why some answers are not given correctly which could provide students with self-assurance of their actions.
9. Enhance retention/transfer – she provided students with repetition of the rooms she taught and during the lesson all the games were related to the topic of the rooms.

In my perspective the teacher used very good examples and games to illustrate each room and the topic related to the rooms. Repetitions which she was doing during the lesson helped the students not to memorize but learn the topic and where to use all those stuffs placed in particular room. However, I do not think that it was really effective teaching in terms of the giving feedbacks, because in general students quickly learn the stuff they learn at first place so it is useful to give them feedback after they made mistakes, so that they learn the correct answer of the questions and topic.

Also, she was a good guider, but had difficulties in teaching the men part of the class or in other words, the men part had lack performance in explaining the vocabulary. However, she did not help them improve their performance but gave chance other students to give correct answers which can be badly perceived by the students who were failure in answering.

Sunday, April 18, 2010