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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 tal

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 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

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