What, in your opinion, did John do well in his lesson? How, on the other hand, would you have taught his content -- 'excuse stories to tell the teacher' differently?
In what ways is John's teaching style similar to Asli's and in what ways is it different?
What did you gain as a teacher from watching John's lesson?
I think John did well in this class about teaching. He created many activities in his class and I can adapt to use in my class. He always challenged and pushed the students to guess,think and join the activities. He also tried to practice the students about pronunciation by using the activity that sticking the words on the board. He corrected the students mistakes is suitable with the students in his class. He tried to give the clue until the students were able to correct it by themselves. But if i have to teach the same context, I will change the topic that relate to past event such as last holiday. I will start with the vocabulary about holiday activity. I will lead the students to tell about activity that they did at the last holiday. In addition, I will give more information about the final sound of "ed" by using the activities of John. He created many activities like Asli did. He tried the students to speak English like Asli did too. I think he couldn't manage the well like Asli because I think he met the students in the first time. He tried to act and let the students guess the words and tell story. I like the hang man game, it can help the students guess the words. I will use this game and many activities from video for my class.Thank you John.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing Khae. Your response to John's class is detailed and sophisticated. I can understand why you would change the topic from excuses for not doing your homework to what you did on your last holiday.
DeleteI use hangman too to have students recall words we have been studying. It is a good activity to get them to focus on how words are spelt.
Cheers,
David
For John’s teaching, he used varieties activity to achieve his teaching. Start letting students tell a word then told what they liked and disliked about school. After that John taught them past tense form. He mimed and students guess the word. If they couldn’t guess, he helped them by using hang man game. I notice that some said in past form, some did in present form and then they can correct and know how to use past form by observing their friends. He led them reorder his story (in group). He taught them how to pronounce the final sound /t/ /d/ /-ed/ then they read aloud his story by using past form. Next, they posted word cards in the categories on the broad. The last he led students mime as he did and made the storyboard then changed to check. John used techniques and activities to make his students know how to use past tense how to pronounce final sound –ed. He approached to all groups to support or help them when they had problems. He corrected immediately if the students answered or pronounced incorrect. But I noticed that some students did some do nothing and looked worried. He should pull them to have participation the class.
ReplyDeleteI like his techniques how to know voiced or unvoiced by touching at the throat and gesture to point in back when he said about past tense. It is simple technique but we can use it to correct or help students know and improve themselves.
A smart, detailed and sophisticated response to the John's class. Well done, Rin! I agree touching the throat is a good way to feel the vibration of voiced phonemes. In addition saying sounds with a piece of paper in front of your mouth is a good way to notice the aspiration that is a feature of voiceless phonemes.
DeleteI agree the hand over the shoulder is a good way to indicate 'the past.' I use this gesture and also use a widening hands gesture to suggest students to lengthen a word e.g. change 'happy' to 'happiness.'
Cheers,
David
As I watched John’s lesson I think he managed his class very well. He used variety of techniques in his lesson which the students had a chance to participate in each activity differently such as individually and in group. In my personal view, the first activity which was about giving the vocabulary related to school. This part he gave each student 3 seconds and he counted 1…2….3….and BOOM!. for the students who couldn’t answer or gave the same answer as before. (I felt a little bit uncomfortable and I can’t think of any words even though I knew some or may be because of my different learning style.)
ReplyDeleteThe next section he asked students to work in group of three to answer the question. “Do you like school?” When he corrected student about “I like get……….” To be “I like getting………”, I saw Dario’s face in the VDO. I felt that he was confused and did not understand much why he needed to use “getting”. Sometimes I think we need to make an explicit correction for students as to be clear.
Miming game was one of the techniques that he presented to the students about how to use Past Simple Tense and asked them to arrange the verb cards along with his story, then students told his story but they needed to change the verbs into the past because the verb cards were in Present tense. I believe that he wanted to test the students about the Past tense verbs.
If I were the teacher, I wouldn’t use the miming game because I am not good at it. I would rather use pictures or movement pictures on PowerPoint for the story.
His lesson also reminded me how to teach the pronunciation with an easy technique. He used the paper for helping teaching the final sound of regular verbs and the follow up activity by using Past Tense verbs on sticky note and then he asked students to worked in groups and put all the verbs into the right categories. In case students made mistake, he swift the sticky notes to the correct column. I like this activity and would love to bring this to my class.
The storyboard that he assigned students to present their own story of an excuse of the lateness for school. This is to make sure that students know how to use Past Tense in their own story.
I think John’s lesson and Asli’s lesson is similar in the way of the student learning language through activities but because they taught different level students so Asli’s lesson seemed to be friendlier.
yes, i agree with you that miming game is funny game and students can do with friends. but we must let them some time to prepare then the activity will be smooth and funny.
DeleteHi Somanat, thanks for your response to John's lesson. It is an intelligent and thoughtful one. I see your point about John explaining why we should use "I like ___ing." He could, I guess, have explained that we need an -ing expression, a gerund, here because it plays the role of a noun. On the other hand, he might not wanted to have discussed his point explicitly because of the demands of time.
DeleteI agree with you that the -ed ending activity with verbs on sticky notes is a good one. I want to try this too.
Cheers,
David
After I watched John’s lesson,the first thing I thought John’s no prepared the lesson and not clear.Afterthat I catched the lesson John’s lesson he has many techniques with students, I like when he shows to mimes,I laughed a lot,I like body language,in the text have many details when he use in class,I think John’s lesson and Asli’s lesson are very different because students different about age and level.
ReplyDeleteHi Normy, thanks for sharing! John's miming was funny at times, wasn't it. Do you mime in your classes?
DeleteAre there any other activities that John used that you would like to use in your classroom?
Cheers,
David
I think John did very well in his lesson.He prepared many teaching techniques in the class that it is good for the teacher.In his lesson he tried to enable the students to tell the story in the past and giving reason and tried to develop ability of the students to talk about school and concentrate on pronunciation.I think I can adapted some of his techniques in my class at the beginning of the class he start by asking the students to tell the vocabulary some thing about the school. Something that I like in this part is he always give the example for the students that I think it is good because sometime the students may do not know how to start with the activities if the teacher give the example it is good.He encourage the students to tell the story by using group work I think I like this because because the student can discuss and share their ideas with friends .He elicites from students by using mime with agree gesture and use a peer correction to get as close to authentic language as possible.If compare between Jonn's teaching style and Asli 's teaching style I think both of them are well organize in their class and they have many activities to encourage the student to participate in the lesson and always give feedback and correction to the students I think I will try to use more activities in my class.But for me I think the first impression in the class should be the teacher character, teacher should always friendly and always give feedback positive for student it will make a good relationship between teacher and student it will make the lesson go smoothly.
ReplyDeleteA thoughtful and indeed a passionate response to John's lesson, Ying. Well done.
DeleteI agree that giving examples is something John does well. They do help students think of appropriate responses.
I also agree that the atmosphere in a classroom should be positive. Students need to feel safe and appreciated, but within that context we should be able to give them constructive criticism e.g. correction to help them develop their English.
Cheers,
David
Thank you very much T.David for your comment and your suggestion that teachers should be able to give the students constructive criticism to help them to develop their English.
DeleteJohn taught his students about the verb in regular past form, ways to pronounce those verbs correctly and finally develop those verbs into sentences, which to how to make excuses. I think John did very well. He did explain much in his teaching, just letting studemts learn though fun games, and in the end, thr students could really think of the content and communicate it be themselves. If I had to teach this content, I think I will try following John's method, but I will let the students communicate it other situations as well, apart from making excuses, like talking about the favorite video games or the favorite TV programs in their childhood.
ReplyDeleteJohn's way is similar to Asli's in using activities to help the students learn. What's different is that John's activities are more challenging, which is suitable well with teenagers. The students have to brainstorm, think, guess and talk to each other.
What I learn from John's lesson is that it's fun to let the students learn from activities, especially when we teach grammar which seems boring, and that teenagers has power. We should turn that power into the energy for fun learning.
Smart response, Ohm. if the tasks are of an appropriate level of difficulty, there is much to be said for giving groups of teenagers various problem solving tasks, such as deciphering mimed stories and reconstructing them with the aid of word cards.
DeleteRemember too the power of two or more. Some researchers have found conversations about language structure in the process of constructing texts are where language learning is sometimes situated.
Cheers,
David
In my opinion,I think he manged his class very well. He use several of techniques in his lesson.I like he uses body language in the classroom.I can adapt to use in my class.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your response, Nancy. He indeed does use gesture and facial expressions well to elicit vocabulary and structures from his students.
DeleteAre there any other of his techniques you would use in the classroom?
Cheers,
David
I think he is well planed,fair and knowledgeable about the subject, especially phonetics. He guides the students pronunciation with phonetic symbols. He tries to build the good relationship by telling students write their name on a piece of paper and attach on the table. He used technique by miming in class it help students to improve about vocabularies guess the words and he has self confident to teach about activities in class such as miming put final sound /d/ /t/ /ed. He don't use technology he use his knowledge. Asli's techniques and John's technique I think different because Asli's technique easy to understand. John's technique more different from Asli's technique that mean the activities they do in the class (miming,how to the pronounce of the final sound /t /d /ed/.I think both of them are well organized in the class. I will adapt both of them techniques in my class.
ReplyDeleteHi Toiting, thanks for sharing. I agree with you that John's knowledge of phonetics and phonemics are an asset to him. I sometimes use phonemic symbols in class, but I feel like I could know them better than I do. I should aim to 'brush up' on my knowledge of the IPA phonemic symbols. Do you ever use phonemic symbols such as /t/ and /d/ in your class?
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David
After watching his lesson, I get something good from him, for example: at the warm up activity he elicited the student's knowledge with the last man standing game by giving a topic (School). I think it's very interesting to do like that. when I'm back to school, I will take one for my students. The next, he's well organized by using many activities for the different culture learners; for instance, he used the technique of teaching with miming the vocabularies and sentences in telling story in the past event. I think this way the student will memorize the language better because I believe that the learners will get language better if they keep the language and body movement together. Next the lesson was focused on the pronunciation as well because the different culture learner always have some problems with pronunciation, especially the final sounds of regular past verb: /t/, /d/ or /Id/. He tried to let the students pronounce them by demonstration with the paper. He prepared the lesson with many material resources as paper cards, pictures visual aid, paper chart, and story board. That's great ! If I compare between Asli and John lesson, I think they're good teacher in teaching. They're well-organized teacher but it's different in the content of lesson: Asli's is easy for younger learners but John's content is more difficult but they managed the class well. If you ask how whose technique are , I will answer that it depends on the situation, content and level of learners.
ReplyDeleteSmart response to John's lesson, Bee. The idea that if we associate words and phrases with movements, gestures and expressions we will learn those words better is an interesting one. I have heard it said that the more associations we make between a word and other things, the better we will learn it; the quirkier the associations, the more memorable the word is.
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David
What, In your opinion:
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion for John teaching, he is lovely teacher because he could motivate students to pay attention in the lesson and used a lot of techniques to make students easily understand. He always gave the students feedback and attempted to correct the mistake grammar, sentences, and pronunciation. He looked so friendly with students that made students don’t be shy to ask or do activities.
Did John do well in his lesson?:
Yes, he did. He had temptation to lead the student into his activities. Also, I love him when he suddenly gave feedback to students when they are missed in language.
How, on the other hand, would you have taught his content -- 'excuse stories to tell the teacher' differently?:
I will use more materials to make students pay more attention such as computer or visual aid. Moreover, I will motivate students to have more movement in class when they do the activities.
In what ways is John's teaching style similar to Asli's and in what ways is it different?:
I think they were similar in friendly with students and used a lot of activities to teach. However, they also were different in using material and movement that Asli, she used many materials and let students always had movement to make them alert to learn but John, he less focused in the movement when students did activities.
What did you gain as a teacher from watching John's lesson?:
I think I got many techniques from John’s lesson. For example, pronunciation such as how to teach students easily pronounce words, phrases, or sentences. I really like the ways to give feedback to the students because after watching this video I think if teacher suddenly give students feedback or correct their mistake, student will understand and will be permanently remember.
Hi Jang, thanks for that very detailed and interesting response to John's lesson.
DeleteIn defence of John, he did have his students move around to an extent, for instance when they played the game where they had to run to the board to place the words on the sticky notes in the correct place, and miming itself is certainly movement, if on the spot.
Regarding feedback, John indeed gives a lot of it. Remember though giving feedback needs to be done judiciously. Sometimes errors can be used as a springboard for short discussions of language form, but on other occasions we might elect to ignore them so as not to interrupt the message a student is trying to get across.
A good way to see error correction is to see oneself as engaging in conversations with students about language form with the purpose of helping them improve in it.
Cheers,
David
I think John did well on his lesson. He used several different activities to manage his class successfully. He regularly asked students to express how that they liked or dislike about their schools. He also instructed them how to use the regular verb in past test form by using mime. If the students could not answer the correct words, he will use hang-man game to help them to use the proper word. This technique is very effective to assist students to reconstruct their stories. I think I can adapt this technique to use in my class. Moreover, John also taught students to pronounce the final sound of /t/d/id/. The simple way how to make the proper pronouncing is to practice by blowing students’ breath through the paper. I think it’s very effective way.
ReplyDeleteJohn’s teaching is similar to Asli’s because both John and Asli use class activities to achieve the learning lesson. However, they are difference while John's techniques are more interested to teenagers with share ideas and thinking.
I have learnt new teaching method through interesting activities from John.
A sound response to John's lesson, Nong. John was indeed able to teach pronunciation in an expert manner and putting a piece of paper just in front of your mouth is indeed an effective way to check if the sound you produced is voiced or voiceless. Voiceless phonemes are the ones that are aspirated and make the piece of paper blow backwards.
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David
In my opinion, John did quite well especially his various teaching technique. It's shown that he planned what he should do each process and what was the goal. He managed the class in many ways to avoid students who were teenagers get bored too. I like the way that he had student write storyboard and share their ideas. Both John and Asli were similar in eliciting students and giving them praises which made them get confident. However, the difference between them was the rapport, Asli's class was relaxing more than John's class. It might be this is the first time which John taught this class. I have learned interesting teaching technique such as a motivating some quiet and insecure student to speak.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting response, Ni. I agree with you that one of the results of using a variety of activities is to stimulate interest, and on the flip side reduce boredom. John may well have had these goals in mind when planning his lesson.
DeleteYou say that you like the way John had students share their ideas. What is good about having students do this in the classroom?
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David
In my opinion I think John did very well in his class. He was a good teacher. He used many teaching techniques and made various materials to management in his classroom by his self: such as miming game, card group work. Especially miming game, this game makes him confident. He controlled and monitor, and gave feedback good or bad for his students he taught his content differently because students could enjoy in activity and he motivated his students all times. It 's similar style, Asli and John tried to encourage students used many techniques. I will apply their techniques in my classroom.
ReplyDeleteA smart response to John's lesson, Tum! The variety of activities and materials John used was definitely a strength. He also, as you write, moved around the classroom checking and discussing the tasks with his students. Do you have a favourite among John's activities which you would like to use in your classroom?
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David
In my opinion,John was good teacher, he has various teaching technique.He can control and monitor class by himself.He started with words about school and talked about like or dislike school,Next is miming about daily routines by use past tense. and then He taught pronunciation verb+ -ed /t/,/d/,/id/and check understanding by use sticky note to stick on the board. On the other hand, I would have teach his content differently about past tense,After I do miming I will give 2-3 minute to draft their daily routine and tell friends may be in pair and about pronunciation I will use sound medias to give example content clearly before do last activity like him(stick sticky notes on the board) John's teaching style similar to Asli's by use various teaching technique and different way is their styles and personalities but Both has suitable with student's level.From watching John's lesson,I gain new teaching technique (miming) that can motivate student
ReplyDeleteA generally clear summary of and a thoughtful response to John's lesson, Namyen. Well done!
DeleteYou do make one mistake though. John doesn't mime about daily routines, he mimes 'an excuse story,' or in other words a story explaining why he was late to school. A description of one's daily routine isn't a good context for use of the simple past tense. One should rather use that tense to talk about what one did yesterday or earlier.
It isn't bad idea to use sound files to model the pronunciation of the three ways 'ed' is pronounced. That way you'll be sure the pronunciation is 'right.'
Cheers,
David
I think John was a good teacher.He managed his class very well. He used variety of techniques in his lesson which the students had a chance to participate in each activity differently such as individually, pair and in group.He tried to act and let the students guess the words and tell story. I like the hang man game, it can help the students guess the words. I will use this game and many activities from video for my class.
ReplyDeleteA short but sweet response, Aom. I agree with you that the different groupings for activities, e.g. working individually and in pairs and larger groups, are a strength of John's lesson.
DeleteSo you would use hangman to elicit vocabulary, but would you mime? I'd be interested to know.
Cheers,
David
This is so fascinating and very amazing to know that this class was his first time to meet these students, and it turned out a very successful class.
ReplyDeleteI really like the way he pursued and tried to bring students to engage with the lesson by the questions which are closely related to most students' daily lives in common like " What do you like or dislike about your school?" This lead-in activity helped students to engage with John's lesson plan easily.
The next activity chosen by John to use was miming. This reminded me to think that even such a classic teaching activity can be very effective in teaching and learning. John tried hard and was very patient with students because they also tried hard to answer what action John was doing too.
After that, John got students to reorder his story in group and I like this because it gave students a chance to talk and a little discussion.
Moreover, when he taught students about how to pronounce the final sound of /t/, /d/, /ed/, it was very simple method but also very practical, it helped students understood and did very well.
The last thing that I can notice is when he had the flashcards on the board and got his students to mime and guess like he did (his second activity I think), this helped his students to show that they could achieved what they had learnt or not. This step could expose that some of them still needed to improve a little bit about grammar stuff and pronunciation.
Thanks for this lucid summary of and interesting response to John's lesson.
DeleteI agree that receiving questions about school such as "What do you dislike about school?" would have been interesting and motivating for John's school-aged students.
John indeed was patient with the students while he mimed. As you noticed too they deserved his patience because they paid careful attention and tried hard to come up with the correct words.
Finally, I agree that having the students mime their own excuse stories to their peers would be an opportunity for the teacher to monitor, for instance, how their pronunciation of 'ed' endings is going.
Good job,
David