Thursday, February 17, 2011

The book or the film?

On Monday it was Valentine's Day and as a warmer I did a Have you ever ..? mingle,which included questions connected to the special day.
The students enjoyed the rhyming words and creating their Valentine cards and poems(most of them used the examples I'd provided)

Mourad,Mounir and Soumaya were making lots of jokes which made for a pleasant atmosphere.
(only 7 students came)
On Wednesday the topic was books and films,which revised present perfect and ended up with the students discussing whether the question:which is better,the book or the film?


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?




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