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Teacher: Phan Quynh Nhu
Observer: Nguyen Trong Thanh
Lesson: Unit 6: Competitions (Listening)
Grade: 11 (Basic Level)
Students: Nguyen Thi Thuy, Trinh Thi Van
The first things, I want to talk about the good and successful lesson, have many
skills to teach. To me, I think that the effective lesson is teacher’s endeavor in the
classroom or other situation. Good teachers need to have many skills and abilities to
teach. They are person who impart the knowledge for learners. The teaching activity
is conducted regularly not only to help teachers develop themselves in teaching, but
also to be clear about pupils, students’ abilities of understanding and applying what
teachers conveyed. Teacher’s specialist understanding plays in an important role in
educational environment. To assume responsibility for teaching students, teachers
need to prepare many things before lecturing such as: Preparation or Organization of
the lesson, Classroom Procedure, Interaction and Social Climate, Teaching Qualities.
I have just observed and evaluated about your lesson (the lesson of Van and
Thuy). This is a lesson that teaches the listening skill. In general, it is good lesson.
You have taught and prepared very well at this skill. The first evaluation, it is about
preparation and organization of the lesson. This is a juncture of the lesson. About
organization of lesson is excellent. You have prepared teaching aids such as:
Textbook, pictures, laptop and CD, handouts, chalk and board… Knowledge of
material, you give and apply English 11 (basic). Although you have not adapted some
parts in teaching content, it helps learners have much information, especially, when
listening. Appropriateness of lesson within framework of general curriculum is good.
The stages are applied in the lesson, this is suitable for learners. Nevertheless, I think
that you should use more clear stages because of helping learners understand and
apply the knowledge. Using of class time is not clear for stages. You have not had the
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suitable time for each stage. In while-listening stage, when you ask learners to listen
and task one, you have spent much time for this task and used the weak technique for
power point. Time is very important for teacher to base oneself on the lesson. The
second problem, it is classroom procedure. In this step, pace is very necessary for
teacher to take the stability of class. You have paced so clearly and linked activities
each other harmoniously. It helps learners acquire the lesson and know how to move
to other part. About instructions and explanations of the stages are long and unclear,
for example, when you explain about post-listening stage with long instruction, it
makes learner difficult to understand them. Therefore, you should have a short and
clear instruction. Moreover, it has to link to your voice. Instructions and explanations
need to say aloud, correctly and easily understandable. About feedback, you have not
had clear feedback for learner to understand. In task one of while-listening stage, you
still explain unclearly about checking the idea of content when listening again. To
degree of difficulty, you have used the good level and known learner’s ability to
teach. Variety of activities, you have known adaptation in activities, example: the
game for teaching first. This helps learner to relax and get more and more confident to
learn. However, the activities in while-listening part are not good. Learner feels bored
when studying. You gave the unclear instructions and information. You should adapt
this part. You can create the activity: fill in blank or multiple-choice because it helps
learner not see reference and answer. Contextualization in stages is clear. You have
given the example for each part, especially, when you taught new words, you have
contextualized easily understandable. Student involvement in the classroom process,
you have made learner’s participant in lesson by good games and activities.
The third problem is interaction and social climate. Interaction between
instructor and students has related the activities. Nevertheless, the co-ordination is not
attractive when instructor introduces the activities; it is too long to explain for
students. Interaction among students has associated when they took part in the
activities. Learners are worked in pair and group. This has contributed to interesting
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lesson. Teacher has not balanced between addressing individual student needs and
concerns and keeping the lesson on track. Students can learn better if teacher talk
about relation between the topic and the activities. Students’ awareness of what is
expected of them. Teacher’s responsibility communicates the knowledge for learner.
Learner expects the new things from the lesson. Instructor has adapted of lesson to
dynamics and flow of the class. You have created the new lesson with other activities
and suitability for degree of learner’s ability. Verification of student understanding of
lesson content, teacher has provided the new content from outside knowledge. This
can verify learner understanding of lesson content. The last influence is teaching
qualities. This part performs instructor’s skills. A good teacher has many attractive
methods to teach and solve every situation when applying in lesson content. In the
lesson, teacher’s patience front of the class and students is good. Your confidence also
is manifested front of students. You have coped really well with the activities.
Adaptability of teacher in the lesson content is considerate when adapting front of the
class. This expressed the understanding of teacher about content in books to apply to
learner’s ability. About voice, you have said loudly enough for leaner to listen. Using
of language is fluent and good English model, you have not balanced of English and
Vietnamese when teaching the new words. Your pronunciation is not good. You need
to practice pronouncing more and more. You achieved a high level of participation by
physical presence and movement.
From what I presented above, it can be said that observation is dramatically
important and is an essential part in Education. However, it is important, helpful, and
supportive or it may have an adverse impact, it depends on how we organize
classroom visit and which factors we apply to evaluate and how much information we
should focus on. I hope that I will have much experience about what I have learned in
university after graduation.