Saturday, May 15, 2010

1) Gain attention :The teacher comes to the class and that she will distrube a envolope for each group.Envelopes are good materials for drawing attention of students.

2). Informing the learner of the objective: The teacher says what they will o with these envelopes that is, gives the instructions.She makes the groups of 2 people.The students will match the parts of the sentences according to tag question structure.

3)Stimulating recall of prior learning:During the exercise the students recall their past learnings abour tag questions.They think about the rules and form the sentences.

4)Presenting the stimulus:Students give reactions according to stimulus and starts to make questions by group members.

5)Providing learner guidance :The teacher in advanced gived the rules .We don't see that part so much. In the beginning part of the video the teacher talks about the strategies about how to teach tag questions with diffrent games.

6). Eliciting performance :The teacher askes learners the responds.The students starts to giving answer by one by after finishing the exercise.

7)Providing Feedback: After each answer the teacher asks the class whether it is true or not.She doesnt give the answer directly, takes the learners opinions."She ask what do you think."

8)Assessing performance: She asks the class about answers and then verifies the answers.All of the students give the correct answer. The teacher shows her glad by saying "thank you "and very good"

9)Enhancing retention and transfer :The teacher talks about other ways of tag questions with an enjoyable way in my opinion.For example one students form a question other one complete it ,or giving incorrect tags them to correct. So this structure becomes permanent in their memories.

In my opinion the teacher uses different tecniques to use for teaching Tag questions, but we dont see this part namely while she is teaching the rules to the students. The video shows us only the part that after the students has learned the subject.Then she makes the students do enjoyable activity. Because this way is much better than to make them o practices from a book or sheet. This activity make them curious about the exercise (envelope activity ) Than at the end , she also talks about other ways of teaching a grammer. They are creative I think. As the learners like the games an fin them more interesting than common ways the teachers generally use.

1) Gain attention :The teacher comes to the class and that she will distrube a envolope for each group.Envelopes are good materials for drawing attention of students.
2). Informing the learner of the objective: The teacher says what they will o with these envelopes that is, gives the instructions.She makes the groups of 2 people.The students will match the parts of the sentences according to tag question structure.
3)Stimulating recall of prior learning:During the exercise the students recall their past learnings abour tag questions.They think about the rules and form the sentences.
4)Presenting the stimulus:Students give reactions according to stimulus and starts to make questions by group members.
5)Providing learner guidance :The teacher in advanced gived the rules .We don't see that part so much. In the beginning part of the video the teacher talks about the strategies about how to teach tag questions with diffrent games.
6). Eliciting performance :The teacher askes learners the responds.The students starts to giving answer by one by after finishing the exercise.
7)Providing Feedback: After each answer the teacher asks the class whether it is true or not.She doesnt give the answer directly, takes the learners opinions."She ask what do you think."
8)Assessing performance: She asks the class about answers and then verifies the answers.All of the students give the correct answer. The teacher shows her glad by saying "thank you "and very good"
9)Enhancing retention and transfer :The teacher talks about other ways of tag questions with an enjoyable way in my opinion.For example one students form a question other one complete it ,or giving incorrect tags them to correct. So this structure becomes permanent in their memories.

In my opinion the teacher uses different tecniques to use for teaching Tag questions, but we dont see this part namely while she is teaching the rules to the students. The video shows us only the part that after the students has learned the subject.Then she makes the students do enjoyable activity. Because this way is much better than to make them o practices from a book or sheet. This activity make them curious about the exercise (envelope activity ) Than at the end , she also talks about other ways of teaching a grammer. They are creative I think. As the learners like the games an fin them more interesting than common ways the teachers generally use.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

1.Gain attention: The teacher spreads flash cards on the table when she comes to class and want them to come around the table, which takes student's attention and make them curious about what they are going to do with those flash cards.

2. Identify objective/informing learners of the objective: The teacher gives the instruction of the game and she herself shows what they will do. Then she remind that the one who understand first and react fast will win the game. She reminds them to be competitive before start to game.

3. Recall prior learning/stimulating recall of prior learning: During the game students remember what they have learnt about time expressions and they use previous learning to win the game.

4. Present stimulus: The teacher reads the time therefore presents the stimulus, and the students give reaction to stimulus.

5. Guide learning: In the first part of the game, the teacher herself reads the expressions in order to guide learning, but in the second part, one of the students reads them, which makes the activity more student-centered.

6. Elicit performance: Most of the students give reaction to stimulus and grab the correct flash cards.

7. Provide feedback: When the students grab the card she wants him or her to hold it up and show it to the friends and asks the students "Is that right?". By doing so, she immediately provides feedback and make the other students involved in the feedback part.

8. Assess performance: The teacher thinks that this activity is useful for them as it involves visual elements, physical movement and competion.

9. Enhance retention/transfer: As the game is about the time expressions they have learnt previous lesson, the activity enhances their retention and make these expression transfer to the long memory.

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