Sunday, May 30, 2010



1. Gain attention: The teacher asks students about movies on a person’s life. Talking to students about movies definitely attracts their attention.
2. Identify objective/informing learners of the objective: The teacher distributes cards and pens to students and tells what they are going to do with these.
3. Stimulating recall of prior learning: During the activity the students use their prior knowledge of past tense. Also it is clear that linking student’s personal experience and knowledge with a new subject facilitates their learning.
4. Presenting the stimulus: The teacher first presents the stimulus talking about his past life and introduces the content which is past tense to students.
5. Providing learner guidance: The teacher guides the students telling them to make the sentences like him and gives examples.
6. Eliciting performance: The students make their sentences using past tense and share them with the class.
7. Providing feedback: While students sharing their sentences, the teacher corrects their mistakes nicely and provides immediate feedback.
8. Asssesing performance: The teacher doesn’t give a test or something like that, but asses their performance by saying ‘good job’, ‘excellent’.
9. Enhance retention/transfer: I think choosing something related to student’s life is the best thing to enhance retention. Also, the teacher repeat the correct version of the wrongly said past form of verbs few times to enhance retention.

I think he is a qualified teacher. He creates content of what he teaches and that would help student’s meaningful learning making the information permanent. Also, he makes communication possible even in a grammar lesson and this is perfect for integrating the different skills.

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