Week 2:

 Observation

     Again, it was an exam day. Therefore, the lessons began at 9:00 o’clock and I was there ten past nine. Was I sad? Yes, of course. After, that day I decided to go there before nine o’clock in every week. Then, I waited on the hall. While I was waiting a secretary invited me her room, which was next to the class that I supposed to go, and said that I can wait there. After, two or three minutes later my mentor teacher came and said to me that I can go to the class and control it. I went and all students looked at me and they began to ask questions; for example, where are you from or how old are you and etc. I answered their questions and then said to them “You should continue your writing and if you have questions related to your writing you can ask me”. However, they were not likely to do their work and one girl said to me “You should not come to this class because we are so ‘yaramaz’ students”. It was my first time there in 5I class and they were sitting in a U-shape. When the teacher came they calm down and continued writing and both the teacher and I answered their questions. Then, the teacher said we should not help them because it was their homework but they did not do it at home.

     After lesson before they had an exam, I asked to my mentor teacher if there have any work to do, then she gave me students’ writing homework to check. I went to the library and checked their writings. Most of the writings were very good but I had a difficult time to understand some students’ hand writings. Then, I went to 5C class but it was a very short lesson and then, my mentor teacher and students all went to the Kultur center.

     Again, I waited in the library. After lunch I observed 5Dclass. The teacher showed the answers of their homework and students read their writing homework to their group members. I liked a strategy that the teacher use, that is, as I mentioned previous week’s dairy they sit as the groups and they read their paragraphs to their own group members and then, with group members they choose the best writing. Every group does the same thing after that, the chosen students read their paragraphs on the board to the whole class. The students who did not do their homework get mines but still they have right to participate and chose the best one. The last thing I want to mention that the teacher showed some new words and their explanations with power point presentation like we do in our micro teachings and the students write those words on their notebooks.