In my video, the teacher teaches some vocabulary items to the students, now I will analyze the video according to Gagne’s nine events of instruction step by step.
1. Gain Attention: The teacher gains attention by saying they will do a discussion something they used to, and adds that she is expecting an excellent lesson from them. Then she uses a power point to ask her questions which is a visual stimulus for students.
2. Inform learners of objectives: She is very clear in conveying the objectives. She says that she will explain the meanings of some words in a poem, so at the end of this lesson they will improve their vocabulary. Besides by doing discussion about the poem, they will be able to reinforce their speaking and analyzing skills.
3. Stimulate recall of prior learning: As the poem’s name is “mirror”, she asks some questions about mirror like “What is the significance of mirrors?” By asking these questions, she associates their previous concepts or experience. Besides, she asks about Socratic discussion to the students and after getting the answers like form, language, imagery etc., she adds that they will look for all of those criteria in writing their paragraphs.
4. Present the stimulus: She displays content in an organized way. After asking some warming questions and discussion techniques, she wants them to write a short paragraph link to “mirror” using the given unknown vocabularies, then assess themselves in pairs. She distributes them the handouts and says the time limitation too. She clearly explains what they are going to do.
5. Provide learning guidance: She helps them when they are talking about the issue and make comments about it. She explains the words which may be unknown to the students. Also when she gives them writing task, she says she will go around the class to see what they are focusing on.
6. Elicit Performance: After they finished their writing and discussion, and pair assessment, she asks students what they learn from Socratic discussion. Then, while students are giving their answers, she writes them on the board. By doing this, students are able to see what they have gained from the lesson and discussion.
7. Provide feedback: I think she gives an immediate feedback to student’s answer by always saying “good, excellent, well done etc.” This provides students to confide in themselves and motivate to speak.
8. Assessing performance: After students finished their discussion, she evaluates the students’ performance by saying “You have been absolutely fantastic and you infer the poem’s meaning beautifully, very well done” By uttering these praises, she makes them to feel their accomplishment.
9. Enhance retention and transfer: Just before finishing the lesson, she gives students an assignment. Students have to write a detailed analysis of the poem “mirror”. This assignment aims to transfer the listening skills and reading techniques into a written assignment.
I think, her teaching lesson is a good example, because the teacher integrates all the skills in a lesson, which is a great thing. She is effective in fulfilling the aim of the lesson. She delivers the objectives of the lesson clearly, encourages students, and gives enough feedback and guidance to students. I think the teacher is successful in employing the Gagne’s nine events of instruction. I see how effective these techniques are in the classroom, and I liked the lesson.
