Lesson plan self evaluation (to be done individually)

SELF-EVALUATION OF LESSON PLANS
You need to report on the difficulties that you have had during the process of lesson plan preparation, the limitations that you have felt during the preparation of the lesson plan, the points that you would like to change about your plan, the benefits that you think you have gained out of the lesson planning process.

Gagne's nine events of instruction

GAIN ATTENTION: the teachers have the students attention by saying " now we will play a game". And games are always percieved as enjoyable and not didactic. Also, that she will give chocolates to the winners motivates students very much.

IDENTIFY OBJECTIVE\INFORMING LEARNERS OF THE OBJECTIVE:She explained and clarified what the students will do in detail.

RECALL PRIOR LEARNING\STIMULATING RECALL OF PRIOR LEARNING: She has thought the topic beforehand, so she gives an example and says in which stiuation the students use them(for comparison).

PRESENT THE SITIMULUS: As she didn't introduce a new topic she didn't present the new content.

PROVIDING LEARNER GUIDANCE: In order to avoid misunderstandings, she showed how the game would work herself at first. When the students are shown how to do it, they will feel more comfortable.

ELICITING PERFORMANCE: after the game finished, the teacher wanted the students to use the things that they had written on the board in a sentence.

PROVIDING FEEDBACK: When a student makes a mistake whle forming sentence she corrects it immediately, and the student repeats after her.

ASSESSING PERFORMANCE: she doesn't apply a test or something like that, but she uses some words and phrases such as "good job" and "good!"

ENHANCE RETENTION\ TRANSFER: as the students made practice and us them in sentences, they get comprehensible input and that will help them to acquire the rule.

I think she is a qualified teacher and when the students have fun, she has fun: this is very important for a teacher. she knows what she is doing.

SELF-EVALUATION FOR BLOG OWNERS

SELF–EVALUATION FOR BLOG OWNERS

1.Explain the steps you went through during the preparation stage of your own blog (i.e., how you set up the blog, how you chose the layout and the group name, how you collaborated within the group, how you decided on the job division, your selection criteria for the relevant materials that you put in your blog, the sources of the blog materials, any difficulties (i.e., technical difficulties, etc) that you experienced while preparing your blog, the length of blog preparation)
2.Reflect on the blog preparation experience as a group ( mention your feelings about the group work experience, the effectiveness of the group work, how effective you think the blog preparation experience is for you, the benefits that you think you have made by preparing the blog, the things that you have learned through the blog preparation experience, the aspects that you like about your own blog, the aspects that you would like to change about your blog) .
3.Choose the interesting comments that you have obtained in relation to the the entries in your blog (including the comments on the video extract and the discussion questions) and explain why you find them interesting.

EVALUATION QUESTIONS FOR BLOG READERS

EVALUATION FOR BLOG READERS

1.Choose any TWO GROUP BLOGS that you liked and comment on them (on all the parts on the blog: Reading materials (articles and/or different extracts of information, discussion questions, pictures, videos, the group blog video and the questionnaire/poll). For each blog, you need to choose ONE FROM EVERY PART (e.g., one reading material, one discussion question, picture(s), one video, the group blog video and the questionnaire/poll). Give the rationale for your choice as well(i.e., why do you think so).
YOU NEED TO GO TO THE GROUP BLOGS AND MAKE YOUR COMMENTS ON THESE BLOGS WITHIN THE BLOGS THAT YOU HAVE CHOSEN INDIVIDUALLY.
2. Evaluate the group blogs that you have chosen according to the following criteria.
(TO BE DONE ON THE CLASS BLOG INDIVIDUALLY)

1= Strongly agree 2= Agree 3= Neutral 4= Disagree 5= Strongly disagree



Put an X next to each of the options that you prefer (Please specify which group blog you are referring to when evaluating)



Features:

I. Pictures:

a) Interesting:

1= strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



b) Well-prepared

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



c) Useful

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



d) Informative

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



II. Questionnaire / Survey (If available)

a) Interesting:

1= strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



b) Well-prepared

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



c) Useful

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



d) Informative

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



III. Articles

a) Interesting:

1= strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



b) Well-prepared

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



c) Useful

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



d) Informative

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree











IV. Discussion Questions



a) Interesting:

1= strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



b) Well-prepared

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



c) Useful

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



d) Informative

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree





V. Videos



a) Interesting:

1= strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



b) Well-prepared

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



c) Useful

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



d) Informative

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



VI. Useful Links



a) Interesting:

1= strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



b) Well-prepared

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



c) Useful

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



d) Informative

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree

VI. Group blog preparation video
a) Interesting:

1= strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



b) Well-prepared

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



c) Useful

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree



d) Informative

1 = strongly agree 2= agree 3= neutral 4= disagree 5= strongly disagree

GENERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE GROUP BLOGS
1.What did you find interesting about the blogs that you have chosen? Why?
2. What did you find informative about the blogs that you have chosen to comment on? Why?
3. What did you find useful about the blogs that you have chosen? Why?
3. Was there anything that you did not understand about the blogs that you have chosen to comment on and needed further clarification /explanation? If so, what was that?

4. What would you like to change about the blogs that you have chosen to comment on? Why?

5. What did you like best about the blogs that you have chosen to comment on?

6. Specify something useful to you that you learnt from the blogs that you have chosen to comment on and did not know until you read the blogs, and specify in what ways you find that piece of information useful

7. By referring to the group videos that the group owners made, how similar and how different their blog preparation experience is as compared to you?

LESSON PLAN EVALUATION

You also need to examine TWO of the lesson plans submitted by other groups and evaluate it from the following aspects:
a) the appropriacy of the lesson plan format (for the teacher and for the observer)

b) the relevance of the objectives for the teacher/learner activities (Are the objectives stated in the lesson plan well-formed ? /Do the objectives in the lesson plan cover all the activities?)

b) clarity concerning the descriptions of teacher and student activities (can a teacher or an observer follow the teacher and student activities by looking at the plan?)

c) Variety (does the lesson plan include a variety of activities with different interaction patterns, and in different teaching modes (i.e., the pair/group work, individual activities)

d) smooth transition between activities (whether there is a link between the activities)

e) timings ( Are they clear? Do you ‘believe’ them? Do you think they are realistic? )

f) who does what? (Do you approve of the patterns of interaction?)

g) What do you think of the effectiveness of the closure part (the follow-up task and the assessment of learning)?
h) Is it a good plan? (i.e., what would you a) leave out? b) add to? c) bring in? or d) change completely?
i) Do you find their rationale realistic/ In what ways?
j) Is the learners' previous knowledge specified clearly?
k) Are the unexpected problems and their solutions adequately specified? In what ways?

In my video the teacher teaches comparatives to ther students and she manages it with an enjoyable game. I will analyze this video according to the Gagne's nine events of instruction:

1. Gain attention: At the beginning of the lesson, teacher tells students that they will play a game and it will be a race among two groups. A game and a race will increase the attention of children in class. They will be curious about the game and its topic and it will motivate studetns.

2. Inform learners of objectives: The teacher doesn't inform students about the objectives of the lesson. However, she gives them some instructions about how they will play the game and what will be the rules of the game. She demonstrates and plays the game at the beginning as an example for studetns.

3. Stimule recall of prior learning: The game is about the comparatives in English. Teacher divides the board in two and wirtes some words both side of the board. Then she writes -er and more two side of the words and asks students to write the correct form of comparatives. This requires a prior knowledge about the comparatives, how they are composed or if they take "-er" or "more", otherwise, students can't write the correct answer.

4. Present the content: Teacher tells the game and teaches studetns how they will play the game. She tells that it will be game about comparatives. Thus, students get ready themselves for the game and lesson.

5. Provide learning guidance: The teacher give the first example. She does the first word as an example for students so that they can understand what they will do. She explains the rules of the game and she tells there is a reward for the winner group. This also motivates students and they become more active in the game.

6. Elicit performance: In this stage, learners begin to play the game. It gives students an opportunity to understand what they know about the topic and what they don't know.

7. Provide feedback: After the game, teacher begins to control the answers with the students. She asks them if the answers are correct or not. And then she asks them to make a sentence about that structure and she corrects their mistakes when they make one. She also uses some expressions such as good job, great, very good etc. This provides incentive for students.

8. Assess performance: The teacher doesn't give a test or questions about the topic at the end of the lesson. She just distributes the chocolate for the winners.

9. Enhance retention and transwer to the job: The race and the game about comparatives provides students to learn abput their mistakes in an enjoyable way. Students learn their mistakes and the correct answer will pass to the long term memory more easily. They also use these see these words while playing and after the game they use them in sentences, so they can understand the topic easily.

I think she will be a good teacher in the future. Her teaching techniques are very enjoyable and students will like it. They are also useful and the teacher can integrate these techniques to every lesson. She uses almost all of the nine principles of Gagne's, but she can prepare a test for the end of the lesson for students to learn about what they learn and what they don't.

Instructional Event ---------- Internal Mental Process

1. Gain attention: Stimuli activates receptors
2. Inform learners of objectives: Creates level of expectation for learning
3. Stimulate recall of prior learning: Retrieval and activation of short-term memory
4. Present the content: Selective perception of content
5. Provide "learning guidance": Semantic encoding for storage long-term memory
6. Elicit performance (practice): Responds to questions to enhance encoding and verification
7. Provide feedback: Reinforcement and assessment of correct performance
8. Assess performance: Retrieval and reinforcement of content as final evaluation
9. Enhance retention and transfer to the job: Retrieval and generalization of learned skill to new situation.

I think in this video the woman teaches Gagne's nine events of instruction effectively by using the task to feed the pets at home. as the learner already knows the task, it is easier to get the idea of "nine events of instruction"