20 10 2010! (Ele 3 class Wed/Fri 2010)

The lesson focused on the date 20 20 2010 and the first year of World Statistics Day and also the topic of the average British man and woman plus the average British shopping basket.

I did the 'Forfeits'warmer but the students found it difficult to think of questions either it's too early on the lesson for such a warmer or they need more practice of forming/asking questions.

The students enjoyed discussing the significience of the numbers(that referred to the average woman/man)and quite a few of them had given good examples of statistics(guess I could have written up a few of their examples).
The students also discussing/writing about the average Tunisian
man/woman and also the average Cameroonian man,(however I'd forgotten Rachida who comes from
Madgascar).
The students who interacted most,either discussing/explaining or asking or teponding were the students Mounir,Habib,Karima,Soumaya,Amos and Kouloud while the rest of the students were much quiter in their interactions often silent(maybe needing time to think about the information
and the sentences before speaking to the rest of their group).

It was interesting/useful eliciting information
From the book Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms,Richards,J.C.,in the chapter,approaches to classroom investigation,some important procedures are recommended:
Bailey 1990,Porter et al.1990,Walker 1985 state that it's important to make entries on a regular basis and immediately spend time after the lesson in writing up about the lesson
In addition to review the journal entries as some things which were not obviously apparent might appear so later on.

On page 16 Richards,J.C. mentions some reflection questions to guide thé writing of the journal:
What did you set out to teach?
Were you able to accomplish your goals?
What teaching materisls did you use?
What grouping arrangements did you use?

Did anything amusing or unusual occur?
Did you discover anything new?
Did students contribute actively to the lesson?
Were the students challenged by the lesson?
What do you think the students really learned from the lesson?
What did they like most about the lesson?
What didn't they respond to?