In last ETM3 lass a teacher from a junior high school in Morioka, Mr. M, came and talked to us about working at a junior high school. I learned a lot from him and now I would like to give you some advices about what you should do or you can do as trainees based on Mr. M's talk and my own experience:
1. Attitude
・ Don't forget you are a teacher for students, though you are actually a trainee.
・ Think about your students and what you can do for them at all time.
・ Get in touch with many students and try to understand them.
・ Work hard to make your classes best.
・ Do teaching with a sense of responsibility to students' learning.
・ Have a good experience for the future.
・ Learn a lot with your students.
2. Teaching skill ( Ability in English )
・ Shower many English sounds on your students in the class.
・ Use collect English sentences.
・ Read sentences with a collect rhythm and a good intonation.
・ Acquire good pronunciation.
・ Improve your English as you can.
・ Increase your vocabulary.
・ Don't read the papers you prepared.
2007年6月26日火曜日
2007年6月2日土曜日
Reflection of Microteaching: Vocabulary Teaching
I did a vocabulary teaching lesson with Kimura-san last ETM3 class. And other members of ETM3 class pretended junior high school students. Thanks for thier cooperation. I really enjoyed teaching and I hope they also enjoyed the class.
Now, I'm going to review it.
1.What we did in our lesson
First, I(JTE) and my pertner(ALT) showed students a short play in which Freddie (a leaf) and his father was talking. In the play, we tried to use the words we wanted to have students learn many times. And we tried to make it interesting. After the play, we reviewed the story and new words. Then we all practiced the new words again and again, with some variations (repeat after teachers, say together, say faster, translate from Japanese into English, etc.)
We did the whole class in English. That is because the class was special with an ALT. We wanted students to learn the words through input in the class. That would not be possible in usual class. In this respect, we used *Teaching through Inout Approach. But in the latter half of the class, we got the class to repeat in chorus and finally gave translations in repeating with flash cards. That was like *Present and Learn Approach.
*You can see the approaches here
2.What our students did during our lesson
Some students seemed to understand our play, but some didn't( Of course it was only their pretenses). But they all were willing to practice the words, and they seemed to acquire them.
3.The strenghts and weaknesses of our lesson
[Strengths]
・The play was interesting for students, even if they didn't catch every words or understand whole the play.
・Having much time to practice the words, students could memorize them.
・The class was not monotonous.
[Weaknesses]
・We didn't show the students a clear topic in the beginning of the class.
・We used long sentences in the play, so students couldn't understand it well.
・We read papers in which we had written our lines, not looking at students well.
Now, I'm going to review it.
1.What we did in our lesson
First, I(JTE) and my pertner(ALT) showed students a short play in which Freddie (a leaf) and his father was talking. In the play, we tried to use the words we wanted to have students learn many times. And we tried to make it interesting. After the play, we reviewed the story and new words. Then we all practiced the new words again and again, with some variations (repeat after teachers, say together, say faster, translate from Japanese into English, etc.)
We did the whole class in English. That is because the class was special with an ALT. We wanted students to learn the words through input in the class. That would not be possible in usual class. In this respect, we used *Teaching through Inout Approach. But in the latter half of the class, we got the class to repeat in chorus and finally gave translations in repeating with flash cards. That was like *Present and Learn Approach.
*You can see the approaches here
2.What our students did during our lesson
Some students seemed to understand our play, but some didn't( Of course it was only their pretenses). But they all were willing to practice the words, and they seemed to acquire them.
3.The strenghts and weaknesses of our lesson
[Strengths]
・The play was interesting for students, even if they didn't catch every words or understand whole the play.
・Having much time to practice the words, students could memorize them.
・The class was not monotonous.
[Weaknesses]
・We didn't show the students a clear topic in the beginning of the class.
・We used long sentences in the play, so students couldn't understand it well.
・We read papers in which we had written our lines, not looking at students well.
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