Observation Satreethongsong school

According to tape script: recorded from

observing in Professional Experience I

My friends and I observed in SatreeThungsongschool. It’s located on 24 Thugsong-SuratThani RoadPakpraek, ThungsongNakhon Si Thammarat province postal code80110. The teacher that we observed name’s Richard Goad. He teaches in grade 11. We have got good experiences from these 2 weeks a lot. In this section, we would like to present information gained from observing. There are eight topics answering teaching process from observing, including lesson structure, classroom management strategies, types of teaching activities, teaching strategies, uses of materials, teachers’ of language, students’ uses of language, and students interaction.

In lesson structure, the way lesson opens is greeting by saying “good morning”, check students’ name and tells students directly about the topic of day. Today, they’re going to learn about moods or feelings. He give an example of the topic by ask one student “how do you feel when I have your phone?” It’s the good warm up step that lead students to understand the content without explain the meaning. Students know immediately about types of world that they’re going to learn. Then, the lesson way to develop students to understand content is show picture cards and ask someone to act like that word. Student can answer the most correctly and participate in each activity. Teacher the lesson way by link the content into the structure that has in real life. Moreover, there’re 3 activities include, whole class, group work and individual activities. There’re several links and transitions between activities such as asking questions, showing picture card, acting the word represents.

In classroom management strategies, There are 3 types that teacher sets up group including, whole class, group and individual work. Teacher divides group in short time in presentation and practice step. There’re 4 rows. Each row represents one group. In the production step, students make up group 6-7 people each group. Members of group are students who sit nearly. He maintains order by speaking with loud, point and ask the most students in many times. The class length is 110 minutes. There’re warm-up(15), presentation(25), practice(25), production(25) and wrap-up(10). The seating arrangements are in row and star shape. The row is the popular seating that helps students can learn with partner and help together.

In types of teaching activities, there are a variety of ways to make student interested and memorize the knowledge that they’ve learn. Students did whole class activities in warm up step. They tell the represent of flashcards. In practice step, students drill with aloud voice together about function to ask moods or feelings. Group activity is on the practice step that teacher provides student to discuss the moods or feelings of people in flashcards. Nevertheless, there’s individual task to helps them improve overall comprehensive from the class in production step.

In teaching strategies, students present task by focusing on speaking skill. They drill the structure repeat. It helps they are fluent with that structure and feel confident to present task. For organizing practice, students sit with pair in row shape. Teacher point to which role, it turn of that team. So, each row had practice the structure more than times in a sentence. If students pronounce wrong sounds, he did error corrections until they do better. In teaching technique, Richard used CLT technique that start from the vocabularies, structure and practicing by themselves. Students have to learning by their own ways but teacher just gives only advice to students.

For material that teacher use, there isn’t textbook in class; it’s only flashcards, picture cards and whiteboard. Although, student didn’t learn from textbook; the knowledge that they have learned is very good for use out class. The main resource is the learning of students. It depends on ability to memorize which they can collect.

For language that teacher use, he use the most formal language and use informal language sometimes. Furthermore, teacher reinforces students by usually asking questions. It’s important to motivate and check comprehensive of students. Teacher will ask question repeat if there’s no answer from students. The feedback from students, they always answer at once if they know. If they don’t know, they will use more times to think and answer in finally. When students don’t know answer, they will silent to consider. Teacher will help student more clues. In the first activity, it’s an act and answer moods or feelings. Teacher usually explains words with question and body language. It’s good for learning with them. Moreover, teacher also explains grammar by putting those words into sentences and showing to students that is next step to use function in real life.

Using language of students is an important for students to practice foreignerlanguage. While they doing group work, students hardlyspeak English. They often use mother tongue during class. Foreigner language was use only asking questions from teacher. Then, there was problem with grammar because sentences that they use are the short sentence. They seldom practice in correctly form and communicate with English. Students also have the problem with pronunciation little. Sometimes, they pronounce incorrect sound. But teacher will help students by pronounce correct pronunciation and ask them to repeat after him.

In the step that teacher provides students, there’re lots times to learn and practice. Students use the function sentences many times and talk together in group work. Students sometimes ask questions when they do group work and individual work. While they doing activities, they speak mother language the most. They usually talk together with Thai.

We’ve learned many techniques and real problem in observation classroom. We wouldn’t understand if we don’t sit and observe in there. There’re several things that we have to learn, practice and prepare ourselves. The problem can happens wherever and whenever. Although, teacher is professional; there’re another components that you need to manage. We’ve learned about controlling classroom, explaining knowledge and creating positive classroom atmosphere. Because there’re lots of components excepting teach. Teachers have to be the controller to flow classroom activities and manage every task completed.

Subject to focus on

1. Lesson structure

·        The way lesson opens, develops and closes

·        The number of activities that constitue the lesson

·        The links and transition between activities

2. Classroom management strategies

·        Setting up group

·        Maintaining order

·        Time management

·        Seating arrangement

3. Types of teaching activities

·        Whole class activities

·        Pair and group activities

·        Individual activities

4. Teaching strategies

·        Presenting task

·        Organizing practice

·        Teaching technique

5. Teacher’s use of materials

·        Use of the textbooks

·        Use of the resources

6. Teacher’s use of language

·        Use of instructional language

·        Use of question

·        Feedback techniques

·        Explanation of vocabulary and grammar

7. Student’s use of language

·        Use of language in group work

·        Use of mother tongue during class

·        Problem with grammar

·        Problem with pronunciation

8. Students interaction

·        Time on task

·        Questioning behaviors

·        Students to students talk

Tapescript: recorded from observing

in Professional Experience I

S: good morning teacher

T: good morning student

S: Ss show their hand

T: So today we’re going to learn about moods or feeling. How do you feel if t have I your phone?

S: Not good

    Ok so mood or feeling

Students always talk together

T: call name Fon

     So you show everybody.

     So you have to design what feelings.

S: shy.

T: oh very good “Shy”

     Call name sin.

T: what’s face’s sin?

S: bore.

T: bore,Yeah!Bore.very good.

S: Who walk like this?

Zombie.

T: zombie, Yes

     Ok

T: scared, angry

S: hungry

T: hungry, yes.

     Ok

    So you coming back

    I see you come in.Did you ask me?

    Yes, come with we after class.

T: Ok so oh

    Happy love/good/very good

    Ok I say you not use phone in the class I say

Many times not phone dictionary  because you learn Of me. Dictionary use for homework

S: sleep,  scare

T:Petch

    Ok This very easy because when this class finish

    He comes with me. So he will be?

S: sad

T: Yes ok so Today we are learning about moods

Or feeling. How do you feel?

    So very easy.I already say the words

    What word in thing

S: feelings

    So everybody !

    Feeling

T: Yeah feel? What words is this

     Shy freedom

T: think about the feeling

     Even more than happy

     Ok begin with e .morethan happy

     Elephant

T: who say elephants?

S: Exciting

T: exciting, good

You can all so sad ecstatic

On we are say over exciting—ecstatic

     What’s word in this?

T: shocked

     If I use this and put in there

     Similar word to shock

     Handsome

Really?

     Fear

     Yes, very good and another word, two word

S: fear

frightened

Everybody?

Fear, shocked, exciting, ecstatic, feelings

T:  ok. What’s word in this?

      Fail, happy / surprised

      What is this mean

You can pass a fest or you can …

S:  fail

T:  fail very good

      So if

S: boring

T: listen if you fail a test, How do you feel?

    Sorrow

T: similar to sorrow

S: very good disappointed

    You know, you very sad. You disappointed

    Or If you get zero on the test and you

    Go home to your family your papa says

    What did you get in your test

    You say get zero

    Your father says I’m very disappointed in you

T: maybe if you fail on your test, maybe your father get …

S: angry

T: yes angry

Ok so if you fail your test. Then, you do

Another test you need to this word

S: grow up, do better

    Yes, do better

T: everybody read do better, angry, disappointed

     Fail

S: ok very good everyone

     Now we’re going to see how can you usethis words.

T: ok question and question

     How would you feel if I gave you 1 million bath?

     T would feel very happy, I would be so excited and ecstatic.

     And you

     How would you feel if I gave you 1 million bath?

     T would feel very happy, I would be so excited and ecstatic.

     Ok.Question!

S: How would you feel if I gave you 1 million bath?

good, I would feel very happy, I would be so excited and ecstatic.

S: How would you feel if I gave you 1 million bath?

good, I would feel very happy, I would be so excited and ecstatic. (question)

S: How would you feel if I gave you 1 million bath?

T: good I would feel very happy, I would be so excited and ecstatic. (question)

S: How would you feel if I gave you 1 million bath?

T: very good answer

S: I would feel very happy, I would be so excited and ecstatic

    Very good

S: I would.

T: so , How would you feel if I gave you 1 million bath?

S: I would feel very happy, I would be so excited and ecstatic

T: So,  How would you feel if I gave you 1 bath?

     Ok Think about what I say How would you feel if I gave you 1 bath?

     I would be sad

      Yes disappointed (question)

S: How would you feel if I gave you 1 bath?

T: answer

S: I would feel very happy, I would be so excited and ecstatic.

T: good.Question!

S: How would you feel if I gave you 1 bath?

T: answer

S: I would feel very happy, I would be so excited and ecstatic.

T: very good ok what do you want(Ss speak X3 times)

     Describe your feelings if you found a Tiger in your bedroom?

     I would be so shocked and frightened, I would shake with fear.

     Ok.Question!

S:   Describe your feelings if you found a Tiger in your bedroom?

      Don’t forget I want to check your fear.

T: Ok listen again

      Describe your feelings if you found a Tiger in your bedroom?

      Ok right rand question

S: Describe your feelings if you found a Tiger in your bedroom?

T: ok.Question!

T: good question

S: Describe your feelings if you found a Tiger in your bedroom?

T: answer

S:  I would be so shocked and frightened, I would shake with fear.

T: ok!Describe your feelings if you found a Tiger in your bedroom?

S: I would be so shocked and frightened, I would shake with fear.

T: Describe your feelings if you found a Tiger in your bedroom?

S: I would be so shocked and frightened, I would shake with fear.

T: ok, very good question

S: Describe your feelings if you found a Tiger in your bedroom?

T: good answer

S: I would be so shocked and frightened, I would shake with fear.

T: good!Ok!last one.

S: what does it feel like to fail a test?(Ss speak X3 times)

I feel sad and disappointed about myself, sometimes I get angry too as I know I can do better.

T: listen again

    Question

S: what does it feel like to fail a test?

T: answer

S: I feel sad and disappointed about myself, sometimes I get angry too as I know I can do better.(Ss speak X3 times)

T: It’s a work group. There’re 6 people each group.

Next, you’re going to have picture cards.

You have to discuss about moods or feeling of person in it.

S: (students talk together about picture that they have)

T: ok. Have you finished?

Each group will have represented to show friends for the rest of class.

S: (students present in front of class)

T: So, you come here.

(T provides Ss act out a moods or feeling)

S: Love, angry, Happy, sad, afraid, cold, sleepy, bored, surprised

T: Ok. For homework today, you write down the happiest time of your life and how you felt at least 50 words.

     Do you understand?

S: Yes

(ring of bell)

T: Ok. See you next class.