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NGO QUOC TUAN 2191401111089 LANGUAGE TEACHING PRACTICE

Course Instructor: PHAM NGUYEN HUY HOANG

ASSIGNMENT 3

EVALUATION OF TEACHING

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Assignment Due Date: December 18 th , 2021

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Classroom Observation Form 1

10-15 Students

2021

Use criteria that apply to format of course observed.

(shows good command and knowledge of subject

matter; demonstrates breadth and depth of

mastery)

The T’s knowledge is average, he pronounced the word “younger” /‘jʌŋgər/ without letter ‘g’ He provided extend knowledge and used L1 to help Ss

The T met the class on time He just followed the order of tasks in the book, then gave instructions to students No challenges or games were applied in the lesson While teaching, he checked the

(organizes subject matter; evidences calling different students

preparation; is thorough; states clear There were four parts which had been objectives; emphasizes and summarizes main observed:

points, meets class at scheduled time, Part 1: T reviewed the last lesson

regularly monitors on-line course) Part 2: T presented the new lesson (asking

and answering about personalities)

Part 3: He broke rooms for Ss to work in pairs and asked Ss individually

Part 4: T presented the new lesson (asking

and answering about daily activities)

The T knew how to bring out the

answered correctly, he gave praise If the (holds interest of students; is respectful, fair,

Ss does not answer correctly or does not and impartial(unprejudiced); provides

know how to answer, he will suggest feedback, encourages participation; interacts

with students, shows enthusiasm)

encouraged Ss to speak by asking “And how about you? Do you…”

T did not use any specific teaching

(uses relevant teaching methods, aids, Post steps

materials, techniques, and technology;

includes variety, balance, imagination, group

involvement; uses examples that are simple,

clear, precise, and appropriate; stays focused

on and meets stated objectives)

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(establishes online course or classroom

environment conducive to learning;

maintains eye contact; uses a clear voice,

strong projection, proper enunciation, and

standard English)

(uses time wisely; attends to course

interaction; demonstrates leadership ability;

maintains discipline and control; maintains

effective e-platform management)

(exhibits sensitivity to students' personal

culture, gender differences and disabilities,

responds appropriately in a non-threatening,

pro-active learning environment)

8. ASSISTANCE TO STUDENTS (assists

students with academic problems)

(evidences self-confidence; maintains

professional comportment and appearance)

CLASSROOM (optional)

(state location and physical attributes of

classroom, number of students in

attendance, layout of room, distractions if

any; list any observations of how physical

aspects affected content delivery)

Strengths observed:

Description/Comments

The T presented the content simply, not yet eye-catching, all the information was cut from the textbook, the T edited directly on the cut content In addition, letting students turn off the camera made

it easy for them to lose focus and work

on their own

Note: the background of the T was not bright enough.

T used time effectively, mainly focusing

on teaching new knowledge, practicing speaking and correcting pronunciation for learners

T was relatively good in caring about Ss (asking about their diet) He has a friendly voice, maintained a happy face during the lesson

T listened and helped Ss to correct their

pronunciation (fifty and fifteen)

T always keep fresh with a smile on his face He is young, dynamic, easy to create sympathy with Ss

This is an online lesson

- T had a good-looking appearance, a confident style, and a pretty good voice

- T knew how to interact to create a feeling of joy and friendliness with students

- T knows how to elicit questions before starting the lesson

- During the learning process, T suggested answers so that students had more confidence He also corrected pronunciation when possible

Suggestions for improvement:

- T should add more challenges or activities to motivate Ss

- T shouldn’t spend too much time for lead-in questions

- T should learn more about teaching theories to organize his lesson effectively

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Overall impression of teaching effectiveness:

Classroom Observation Form 2

(American English)

Use criteria that apply to format of course observed.

At the beginning of the lesson, the teacher reviewed the lesson with a speaking review

participated and earned points The teacher (shows good command and knowledge of

subject matter; demonstrates breadth and divided the students into pairs for thespeaking task by asking them to raise their depth of mastery)

hands, and he placed the students in order from top to bottom The Speaking review took 20mins

(organizes subject matter; evidences

preparation; is thorough; states clear

objectives; emphasizes and summarizes

main points, meets class at scheduled

time, regularly monitors on-line course)

After completing the review, the teacher moved on to the main part by teaching grammar Before that, he prepared a video clip to review the topic vocabulary taught

in the previous lesson He then introduced the grammar section, which was about the structure 'simple present combined with present progressive'

At the end of the class, the homework is sent home by the teacher to the parents in the form of a PDF file, the students then do

it and send it back to the teacher by Zalo

(holds interest of students; is respectful, Vietnamese when necessary (30%) for fair, and impartial(unprejudiced); provides difficult content such as grammar He paid feedback, encourages participation; attention to each student, reminded them to interacts with students, shows sit upright, raise hands when they are

(uses relevant teaching methods, aids,

materials, techniques, and technology;

includes variety, balance, imagination,

group involvement; uses examples that are

simple, clear, precise, and appropriate; stays

focused on and meets stated

Teachers suggested familiar sentence patterns, vocabulary words that students had learned so that they felt easy to answer questions The teacher then formed the sentence structure after answering the examples with the students

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Review Section Description/Comments

objectives)

Before starting a new knowledge or a new activity, the teacher always asks concept

5. PRESENTATION

check questions, in order to draw attention to

(establishes online course or classroom

the activity he is aiming for In an online environment conducive to learning;

maintains eye contact; uses a clear voice, classroom environment, he used facial

strong projection, proper enunciation, and expressions and gestures instead to signal to students that they need to

keep quiet or ask

standard English)

students to sit up straight and keep order to receive extra points at the end of the lesson

(uses time wisely; attends to course

interaction; demonstrates leadership

ability; maintains discipline and

control; maintains effective e-platform

management)

Though inserting interesting activities into the lesson and leading the lesson content is quite reasonable, sometimes the teachers still encroach on other activities He always invites the very-good students to do the first examples and gives the easiest assignments to the weak students of the class Sometimes teachers forget

to turn off the annotation function, making it easy for students to draw graffiti on the screen while lecturing.

(exhibits sensitivity to students'

personal culture, gender differences

and disabilities, responds appropriately

in a non-threatening, pro-active

learning environment)

8. ASSISTANCE TO STUDENTS (assists

students with academic problems)

(evidences self-confidence;

maintains professional comportment

and appearance)

Teachers always keep a balance in the class, weak students will have as many opportunities as fairly good students For those who tend to ask about unrelated topics, the teacher will stop explaining further and ask them to focus on the topic Teachers were very supportive in explaining more to the good students and analyzing difficult knowledge for the weaker students However, teachers need to be aware that paying attention to and responding to all students' comments can be time-consuming and lead to a delay in the lesson progress.

The teacher was very confident with the knowledge he had and could answer all questions around the topic he was teaching with a comfortable attitude In addition, he also provided new knowledge based on the topic they were studying when possible

10 PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF This online class was conducted via Zoom

CLASSROOM (optional) on the laptop The teacher used headphones (state location and physical attributes of to speak with a loud and clear voice Some classroom, number of students in students had problems with internet attendance, layout of room, distractions if connection and one student could not open any; list any observations of how physical the camera and voice, but she could type in aspects affected content delivery) the chatbox for the answer.

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Strengths observed:

T had a good interaction with Ss

Exciting activities

Good eliciting before coming to the main lesson

Suggestions for improvement:

T should manage the time more effective

Try to control Ss’ behavior during an online lesson

Lacking activities for group work to learn the new grammar point

Overall impression of teaching effectiveness:

It was my honor to observe a class of Mr Tam His lesson was informative and exciting, very suitable for children His example is familiar with Ss and he knew how to motivate their learning goal The children could adapt to the new knowledge and make sentences with the structure That’s

a successful lesson to me and I want to adapt his strength to my teaching.

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EVALUATION OF TEACHING

The class instructor's full name is Nguyen Minh Tam He graduated from Pedagogical University and has 5 years of experience in teaching kids and teenager classes Although he is 28 years old, he has a youthful, dynamic, and humorous style, very sympathetic to students Each lesson is like a journey to discover new knowledge interestingly.

The class that the writer is attending includes 10 students from different primary schools in District 12, Ho Chi Minh city The level of the class ranges from A1-A2 for young learners The textbook that the class is learning is the book Family and friends 4 American version Although they just started Unit 1, the whole class learned together more than six months ago in the book Family and Friends Teachers and students are used to each other's ways of working and easily cooperate After completing the Family and Friends 4 course, the class will be prepared for the Flyers exam

The center where the writer observed is A Chau English Center (ACE) which is located in District 12, Ho Chi Minh city The center has 15 years of experience in teaching English to young learners and has won many certificates of merit from the Ministry of Education With more than 30 branches in the city, A Chau is a prestigious place for children to study and find English certificates for the future Currently, due to the epidemic situation, the center can only conduct online teaching on the Zoom platform, so the writer can only evaluate based on an online lesson

Although the session was conducted on an online platform and the class also learned the new curriculum with only two sessions, through the teaching style of the teachers and the student’s participation in the class, the writer has assessed that lesson fully Mr Tam is a person who has a lot

of experience in creating sympathy with students, leading lessons appropriately, and designing tasks

on the PowerPoint platform in a beautiful, professional and attractive way Through the session, the writer has learned a lot about the teaching method that Mr Tam applied, the strengths as well as the limitations of the teacher's method have been recorded by the writer and selectively applied in his future lessons.

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evaluate the online teaching that I am about to attend Moreover, the writer understands that in addition to language skills, other factors related to teaching skills need to be taken into account to create a successful teaching session this class to be able to learn valuable teaching experiences from Mr Tam

In the previous lesson, students learned about restaurant-related vocabulary such as

"server, uniform, menu, customer, a bottle of water, cup of coffee, a glass of milk, a bowl

of soup" The teacher focused on pronouncing difficult words like “server, a bottle of water, a glass of milk” and corrected pronunciation errors for weak students In the

grammar section, students learned about “be+ going to” The teacher also gave the class to

practice making sentences using this structure in the previous lesson

At the beginning of the lesson, the teacher created a speaking practice activity "be+

going to" using PowerPoint He reversed the order of words in a sentence, each word he

attached to a letter from 0 to 9 Then he showed a specific sequence of numbers, that sequence of numbers would correspond to a complete sentence The students were asked to look at the number quickly to connect with the corresponding word and read a complete sentence The teacher would time and calculate the plus point for that student For example,

“2-what/ 4-it/ 3-is/ 1-time”, the teacher shows the sequence 2-1-3-4, and the students must

quickly read the sentence “What time is it?” within a certain period The teacher has

attracted the attention of many students through this activity

For the vocabulary review activity, the teacher has created a Youtube channel and played a video with background music that she uploaded earlier Students then watched the video while reviewing the vocabulary they have learned in the previous session After the video ended, a question popped up to lead into the new lesson of the day Due to that day's

lesson on the structure “Present progressive combined with Present simple tense”, the teacher raised the question “What are you wearing today?”.

After opening with a question and leading students to successfully answer, he opened a

lecture slide with an example of “I/He/She/They usually wear…, but today I/He/She/They + am/

is/are wearing…” He cleverly covered up “wear + wearing” and led his students to fill in the

blanks After learning about the first example, the teacher replaced the word 'wear' with other words that are familiar to the students such as "eat, drink, sit " and asked the students to make

sentences Finally, the teacher introduced the new structure.

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