week 5

Observation

During the last and this week’s observations I tried to learn students’ names. I wrote most of their names on my notebook and also I wrote an adjective near each student’s name in order to not confuse the names. For example, in 5D there have two students whose names are Zeynep and I wrote Zeynep 1 (hard working) who usually does homework and actively participate and Zeynep 2 (dancer) I have seen her while she was dancing very nicely in the break so I remember her as the dancer, and also Naz (blond) or Bora (lovely). This technique really works:)

The first and the second lessons were homework check as usual and the last two lessons were very beneficial both for students and for me (as I did not know some vocabulary like juggler). The mentor teacher writes every day’s plan on the board like 

                                                                                                      Today’s Plan

                                                                                                    - Power Point

                                                                                                    - Mind Map

                                                                                                    - Notebook Record

                                                                                                    - Homework

and it is very useful I believe as students know that lesson’s plan and when they finish each of them they draw a smiling face near them. After, students found that day’s topic, that the teacher explained it with some sentences, my mentor teacher showed several videos. After each video students supposed to say word such as juggler, human statue, or magician. Then, the teacher asked them to go to the book and discuss key words with your peers. Also, she asked to them what other performances do you know and students answered. After all she wrote all vocabulary or performances on the board and students wrote them down on their notebooks.

Then, she gave homework and their previous written homework. The last few minutes she asked to students ‘What did they learn?’ or ‘Which words did they learn?’ and I think it is a very meaningful and useful closing of the lesson.

The last hour of a week which I observed on Wednesday, my mentor teacher towards end of the lesson make them play a ‘Musical Ball Game’. I very much liked that game and I will definitely use it whenever I teach grammar topics like can/cannot and do/do not have to because it was very fun and very effective. The ball was made of papers which have written sentences on it; for example, my mother does not have to____________. The teacher plays a music and students give or through the ball each other. Whenever the music stops a student who has the ball should read the sentence and fill the blank.

To sum up, during this week’s observation I have learned lots of things which will be helpful to me in my prospective teachings and I am very happy with it.