The tenth day of Sea-Teacher 2017, observing Ms. Cris's classes


Today is a weekday, and I went to Damrongratsongkroh School as usual, but today was raining all day. In the school, I was direct to go to academic affairs to meet mum Sunny as usual. At half past seven in the morning, I went to English department office. There were only a few teachers, because English teachers were very busy to prepare / train students for the final competition.

Observing Ms. Cris's class
 I observed Ms. Cris’s class in grade seven. Actually, I observed three classes of Ms. Cris, and all of them were grade seven. She taught in the same grade, so the topic, lesson plan, method, and activities were the same between those classes. In the classroom, Ms. Cris also gave me a chance to introduce myself before class is started. Ms. Cris taught about speaking maybe, because I have heard before that foreign teachers were only given instructions to teach listening and speaking. 

Ms. Cris wrote students' answer
Ms. Cris elicited the material by asking students about animals, and students mentioned animals, and then Ms, Cris wrote the animals’ name on the blackboard. Then, Ms. Cris asked which could be “pets”, of course the topic of Ms. Cris’s material was “PETS”. Ms. Cris circled the students’ answered / the animals those could be pets on the blackboard. Then, Ms. Cris wrote conversations on the blackboard, and students were asked to copy that conversation.

Ms. Cris wrote the conversations on the blackboard
Then, Ms. Cris drilled the students (repeat – after) the teacher. After that, Ms. Cris asked the students (volunteers) to practice that conversation in front of classroom. There were four to six pairs to practice that conversation.

Students (volunteers) practiced the conversation in front of classroom
After that, teacher drilled (repeat – after the teacher) again. Then, students were asked to practice that conversation with their partner (pair group). Ms. Cris walked around to hear students’ conversation practice. After all of students (pairs) finished to practice their conversation, Ms. Cris drilled again, but only the words which difficult to pronounce it.

Teachers walked around to hear students’ conversation practice
Ms. Cris taught in the same grade, so the topic, lesson plan, method, and activities were the same between those classes. However, the students’ characteristics were very different. The first one was moderate active / enthusiastic. The second one was more active / enthusiastic than the first one. The last was the lowest level of the enthusiasm; it looked like the lowest of performance.

Market
Before us going hotel, we went to the market to buy some foods. After buying all things those we need, we came back to hotel.

That’s all of my entire activity today…
Thanks for reading my blog…

See you on my next journey…

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