Classroom Observation Report 621c71

CLASSROOM OBSERVATION REPORT By Cecilia Mogollon Abreu

1. The activity of observation was realized in the 1st and 2nd year, both sections “C” of English class, and each class has between 20 – 23 students, the teacher is Jhoan Moncada, in the U.E “Colegio Nueva Republica”. This observation started on May 19. 2. Preparation. The teacher knew the topics that he was going to teach to his students, he teacher only use an English book and he had some students, who had a little bit of problems to understand the language, even though the teacher were explained them in Spanish, but with students of the 2nd year, he did not had any problem with them because they could understand the lessons gave by him. 3. Presentation: In the 1st year, the teacher started to explain them the auxiliary do and does, the different rules used in regular and irregular verbs and how to ask questions, affirmative and negative statements with them, after that he gave them lessons about the adverbs of frequency. For the 2nd year, he did it too, when he explained them the future will and be going to, and the present perfect. When the students had doubts of the lesson, the teacher answered their questions carefully and satisfactorily and he always showed an interest in, and enthusiasm for, teaching English in both classes 4. Execution/Methods Uunfortunaly the teacher did not have a variety of activities to teach during the lesson in both classes; he only ed the students on the board to write clauses with simple present and adverb of frequency. In both classes, the teacher moved around the class

and asked to his students if they understood the classroom and remained them the different rules used in the lesson, he already knew their names because some of them behave badly or did not understand the lesson. With the 1st year, he did a review of the simple present before the test to help them to understand the auxiliaries and the verbs, and with his students of 2nd year, he did it with the future “be going to” and present perfect. In both classes, the teacher used repetitions during the classes when he introduced new vocabulary to construct new clauses. 5. Personal Characteristics In both classes, the teacher was very patience when he responded the students’ doubts with the verbs or using the auxiliaries, he also spoke them with a clarity, tone and audibility of voice when he explained the lessons, the most of the time he used the mother tongue to explain the lesson, but when he gave them some exercises or rules, he had a good pronunciation and acceptable fluency. 6. Teacher/student motivation In both classes, the teacher always encouraged them to try or to improve their pronunciation, also when they wanted to ed on the board in order to practice the lesson, and he was able to control and direct the class, he did not allow any bad behavior by his students, of course the 1st year’s students were a little bit disorganized because they wanted to participate in class, on the other hand, the 2nd year class, they were very organized and they raised their in order to participate in the class. I did like the experience, because it helps us to understand how we can prepare to be good teachers in the future, and in my opinion the teacher should use more strategies or technique like games, songs, role plays, even the technology in order to reinforce the students’ learning.