What workshop I chose to attend and why As I was unable to attend the workshop at OH, I opted to attend IATEFL online.  The seminar I chose to focus on in my writeup below is ‘Enhancing Speaking and Writing Outcomes Using Google Apps’, as I’m a keen user of Google Apps and had never thought about how they could be used in the classroom. … Continue reading April, DT Task, Conference Reporter

Lesson plan Lesson plan – a2 food Tutors’ Notes:   My thoughts: -I was really pleased with my final lesson! -I wanted to do something a bit different, creative and in line with one of my passions (food and cooking) -I think it was an interesting and creative way to learn imperatives and also food vocab, and I think the students really enjoyed it and … Continue reading April, Week 3, A2

This week, I observed an experienced teacher: Continue reading Week 2, Observations, A2

Lesson plan: lesson plan a2 news story iceland Tutors´Observations: -good STT -good EC, including that at end and giving them a few mins to look at it in pairs -maybe include more ´good´sentences, 50-50 correct and incorrect sentences -give more chance to practice TL, e.g. could have written down a bunch of adjectives they might use in debate so that they could use those wth … Continue reading Week 2, April, A2

Lesson plan: lesson plan a2 – senses Tutors´observations: My thoughts: -Ran out of time at the end to do EC -Ended up spending a lot of time getting Ss to describe the video, perhaps could have selected certain clips to make that portion shorter -Could have rewritten questions in final discussion to use senses language Continue reading Week 1, April, A2

This week I continued with using correction as my observation task.  I actually noticed a lot of errors go uncorrected this week – I’m not sure if that’s just because I was paying a lot more attention, or if it just happened to happen more this week.  It happened especially when a teacher was in a rush for time or in written activities, e.g. when … Continue reading Observations, Week 4, March, B1

Observations of other teachers, EC/spoken errors, thoughts This week during my observations I used the spoken errors observation form.  I noticed that a lot of times throughout the class, the instructors were correcting on the spot, which is great.  However I also noted a lot of the time they would simply repeat the sentence or phrase the student said but corrected.  I´m not sure the … Continue reading Observations, Week 3, March, B1

My lesson plan lesson plan b1 apple fbi Tutor´s Observations March Observation 4 -Great to include parts of speech with vocab, and do EC in between speaking activites (good incorporating feedback from prior lessons) but make sure to include stress on words -use a bigger font on projection & worksheets so easier to read -¨”out of respect” – maybe extend explanation since this came up … Continue reading Observation, Week 4, March, B1

For my observation of an experienced teacher this month, I used the teacher talk time observation form: 2016-04-05 21-40 Reflections -I liked how he incorporated S talk time even into the intro to the class. As students were coming in (it took quite a long time for everyone to arrive as it was over the Ss lunchtime at work) he asked them about their holidays, … Continue reading Observation of experienced teacher, March

Lesson plan lesson plan b1 letter from fred video Tutors´Observations March Obsevation 3 Always have a language focus- this would’ve helped extend the lesson to 90 minutes. When board vocabulary, make sure you mark the stress and word type- This is your challenge for your next observation. I want you to plan how you will incorporate this into your next lesson. Think about re-ordering stages … Continue reading Observation, Week 3, March, B1