World Food Day (CAE Class)

Today I did the World Food Day lesson which focused on the students doing a role play:the students took and on various roles on discussing the appalling waste of food by consumers and by supermarkets and the group of 'Fregans 'collecting up food thrown away by the supermarkets.

Interactions:
There was lots of interactions especially with Farrah and Sara being the chairpersons;they handled the meeting very well in particular Ahmed who was annoying and irrating with his jokes and silly remarks.Farrah and Sara also
directed the flow of the content of the meeting very expertly from one group to the other.
Farrah summed up the main points well and also put forward some recommendations.
The 'farmers'and the 'World Food 'group were very vocal.
Tatyani as lone representative for the Fregans participated but in general seems to be working alone and isn't really integrating with the other students.
Some of the students(Tania and Ibissen) were quiet in their participation.

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?