Observation
Report 1:
I would like to describe my observation; it was
in 4th grade whose teacher is called Maria Laura Bianchi.
It was an active class where the teacher started
asking, "What the weather was like", a girl held different figure
like (sun, cloud, rain) then she put on the blackboard the sun.
The teacher put a microphone on her ear, and her voice
sounded loud.
The class was active because the students had
different interaction with the teacher.
When they had to read aloud, all of them wanted to
read but the teacher had to choose one student in different time, and when they
had questions they asked the teacher for help, and in that moment all the class
was mestless, it happened several time.
They worked for themselves with an assignment from the
book where they had been working previously.
She used different learning styles such as, musical.
They sang a song with movement referred to the song. The linguistic stayed
present.
When students were reading, sometimes she asked in
English, but only a few words.
The activities were very naturalistic because students
knew a lot of English, but they didn`t show their knowledge because the
majority of the time the class was in Spanish.
She used relevant contexts, they had to read and she
asked them about the article which was in the book, and the same time she
taught about, geography, culture, the majority of the students spoke about that.
The task was to describe something similar to the
article that they had been reading a few minutes before, she used a model task
from the book and clarified expectations, put on the blackboard an
activity, Then they had to walk to the front and complete the activity
that the teacher had written on the blackboard.
I liked all the activities she gave, plenty of
comprehensible input, with techniques like gestures, repetition of the new
words and rephrasing to help students.
I think she used many techniques and was clear when
she spoke. I would have liked to listen to more English in the class, because
all the activities were only grammar, but she resolved every situation
adequately, and showed me how to cope with a huge group of children. Class
was achieved.
Bring this to class: How did the teacher teach content?
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