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    This document summarizes Bobby's reflections on teaching English lessons. In part one, Bobby discusses enjoying Booby's lessons due to his funny and engaging teaching style, though some topics were less interesting. In part two, Bobby identifies strengths in lesson planning, concept checking, and board work. In part three, Bobby recognizes the importance of feedback, managing timing, and monitoring students. In part four, Bobby discusses techniques from observing other teachers' lessons that engaged students. In part five, Bobby expresses a goal to improve understanding grammar and language clarification through guided discovery and other techniques.

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    This document summarizes Bobby's reflections on teaching English lessons. In part one, Bobby discusses enjoying Booby's lessons due to his funny and engaging teaching style, though some topics were less interesting. In part two, Bobby identifies strengths in lesson planning, concept checking, and board work. In part three, Bobby recognizes the importance of feedback, managing timing, and monitoring students. In part four, Bobby discusses techniques from observing other teachers' lessons that engaged students. In part five, Bobby expresses a goal to improve understanding grammar and language clarification through guided discovery and other techniques.

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    This document summarizes Bobby's reflections on teaching English lessons. In part one, Bobby discusses enjoying Booby's lessons due to his funny and engaging teaching style, though some topics were less interesting. In part two, Bobby identifies strengths in lesson planning, concept checking, and board work. In part three, Bobby recognizes the importance of feedback, managing timing, and monitoring students. In part four, Bobby discusses techniques from observing other teachers' lessons that engaged students. In part five, Bobby expresses a goal to improve understanding grammar and language clarification through guided discovery and other techniques.

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    This document summarizes Bobby's reflections on teaching English lessons. In part one, Bobby discusses enjoying Booby's lessons due to his funny and engaging teaching style, though some topics were less interesting. In part two, Bobby identifies strengths in lesson planning, concept checking, and board work. In part three, Bobby recognizes the importance of feedback, managing timing, and monitoring students. In part four, Bobby discusses techniques from observing other teachers' lessons that engaged students. In part five, Bobby expresses a goal to improve understanding grammar and language clarification through guided discovery and other techniques.

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    Assignment 3: Lessons from the Classroom

    Bobby (Vlad Grigoras)

    Assignment 3: Lessons from the Classroom

    Part one
    We have a good time during Boobys lessons. Hes quite a funny guy, friendly
    and involved in his lessons. He is chatting with us both during the lessons
    and afterwards. He likes sharing his stories with us and I particularly like the
    pictures he shows us, it is interesting to find out about different cultures. I
    want to practice speaking and we did most of the time in his classes. I like
    that he gets involved in his teaching and corrects us when necessary.
    Sometimes the topics he chooses appear difficult to grasp and are not the
    most interesting such as the human capital topic. That wasnt interesting
    and the text was too difficult. I couldnt understand the language in that
    lesson and it was boring. It was good that I told him about this class because
    his next lesson was more interesting and I was keen to talk about the slow
    city movement with my colleagues. I enjoy working in pairs or groups as I
    can get a lot of speaking practice. This is my main purpose, to improve my
    speaking, pronunciation and vocabulary. Bobbys explanations and
    corrections are fun most of the time and he makes them explicit with the use
    of realia or miming.

    Part two
    a) Strength planning. For the last few lessons (TP6,7) the planning
    improved a lot to give me a good flow and on spot reaction to different
    questions and activities during the lessons. Scripting the phonetics,
    definitions of key language items in the language analysis improved
    gave me more confidence. The students went home with a useful
    record of what they had learned.
    b) Strength- concept checking. The interaction pattern with the Ss
    through CCQs has improved a lot which makes it much easier to start a
    discussion with the students. Understanding the meaning and different
    contexts while planning can lead the lesson into an area where
    students are challenged and asked about their individual interpretation

    Assignment 3: Lessons from the Classroom


    Bobby (Vlad Grigoras)

    of language, feelings or perspective. It makes a big difference to take


    the student through such clarification. During the last reading lesson
    the Ss discussed the slow city/food concepts in detail to give them
    practice of the target language but also when checking their
    understanding of the text through the activities.
    c) Strength board work. In the past TPs I focused a lot on the board and
    make use of it throughout the class. I mainly started to deliver the
    target language, phonetics and leave it on the board so the Ss can take
    it home. Board management is helpful when eliciting from student as it
    establishes a good rapport. I used Venn diagrams for describing the
    concepts of better city/better life.
    I conclude with my overall feeling that I became more confident during the
    lessons due to good communication, rapport with Ss.
    Part three
    a) Top of the list is feedback. I realize how important is to go round a few
    minutes feedback session and clarify the key points of the lesson. The
    Ss want to work on all aspects of the language as pronunciation, rules,
    drilling, is an important conclusion after each lesson. In the past two
    lessons I went through short feedback sessions, but I want to allocate
    more time for this part.
    b) Timing. I really need to improve my timing. I tend to deliver all-rounded
    lessons focusing on all skills and language points. It is too much for 40
    min sessions, so I need to work more on this. In the last lessons I
    hadnt had time for the freer practice activity as I exploited other
    points of the lesson that appealed to the Ss. For the next TPs I will just
    stick to a clear and concise plan for 40 min.
    c) Monitoring. Ss find it very important to leave the classroom with solid
    understanding and practice of English. I didnt manage to take notes
    during the last Reading lesson when I know how important it is for the
    feedback session. I couldnt understand the writing of the Ss, but this is
    a skill to improve after constant practice. When listening to Ss
    speaking it was easier to spot errors, but it still needs development.
    Part four

    Assignment 3: Lessons from the Classroom


    Bobby (Vlad Grigoras)

    All lessons I watched had at least one interesting aspect. Starting from
    watching original activities or funny discussion for prediction to simply board
    work, I had three inspiring weeks until now. I really learned a lot from Jezs
    instinctive good amount of energy in his classes. He always comes up with
    personal stories which lead through the whole session. On the other hand I
    noticed Arthurs humor when introducing new topics or when taking a
    discussion to its next stage. I would like to make more use of these natural
    aspects that Ive seen in their lessons, so genuine and engaging. Their clear
    aims and goals for the activities are so easy to pursue during the lessons.
    English classes can be as creative as possible and I couldve seen my
    colleagues making good use of video material, power point, recordings.
    Chriss lesson with the hamburger video was so creative. I liked the Ss
    engagement into the lesson; they paid so much attention to each part of the
    lesson. I want to use more video materials in my lessons.
    Part five
    What I want to
    improve/try
    I want to improve my
    overall understanding of
    grammar and language
    clarification stages.

    How I will go about


    achieving this
    I want to try several
    different techniques to
    present language.
    Guided discovery is one
    of the techniques, but
    T/T/T and TBL also
    appeal to my manner of
    teaching.

    Resources/support
    will I need

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