Pre Intermediate 1 classes Update

Group 1 Pre-Intermediate 1 class Wednesday and Friday;quite a few of the students from this class were in the Elementary 3 class,which started in October 2010:Mounir,Abir,Khouloud,Amos,Marwen,Nizar,though Samia and Anouar were actually in the other Elementary 3 class(Samia although she was initially quiet and shy at the beginning of the course in Ocotber she had become more confident in interacting with her peers whilst Anouar,also quiet and shy,had only become a little more confident in his speaking and interacting with his peers.Mounir,Khouloud and Amos remained confident as usual and interacted a lot with the others whilst Marwen and Nizar were quiet but confident but still at times could interact more with the others but they often seem to be tired and reluctant to participate.Abir is still extremely quiet and shy and not really interacting any more than at the beginning of the course.

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?