Ting Ting needs to open her mouth wider when speaking. She mumbles....and mfmhgfbblles. The poem she chose 'Health is wealth' was related to the topic and meaningful to her students BUT had caused 'serious' confusion among us in class. Remember to adapt what you get from the web. Always check, edit and adapt your metairls to suit your students. In this case, it was the 'serious bar' issue which nobody really understood. For the higher proficiency students, they could discuss and guess as well as bring in their background knowledge: for example, musical notes/bar, or a bar that serves alcohol etc etc/ Get students to argue for their opinion. Weaker students, however, would find it tough to provide their opinion on the meaning of 'serious bar'. Keep that in mind.
Glasses, Ting Ting!
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteThe first thing that I want to comment about Ting Ting to improve her presentation is her attire, she should dress like a teacher instead of wearing jeans. A teacher’s image is very important because it can attract students’ attention. Secondly, is her voice projection. Madame Adelina has mentioned that she was mumbling. For me, she actually can speak louder but she has to pronounce each word clearer because sometimes I can't grab what was she talking about.
For her lesson, I think the poem that she chose was ok because literally the sentences were simple and the vocabulary were easy to understand. I searched the poem online and actually she didn’t edit anything because every single word like “develop health problem NEW” was according to the original one, but I didn’t find any analysis of the poem. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/health-is-wealth/
In my opinion, since she was unable to analyze the meaning of certain line she should search for another poem that included with analysis to make it easier for her to explain it to the students.
Her first and second worksheets were ok but for the first one (fill in the blank), to make it more challenging maybe she should ask students to do the worksheet and guess the answers first before she shows them the original poem. However, she has a good interaction with her students and the best part was at the end of her lesson she asked the students to conclude what they have learned throughout the lesson.
Hi everyone, the topic was chose well. But the material she used in her lesson which is the poem seems brought a lot of
ReplyDeletequestions to the class. Make sure you check what you use before you take it to the class. And the activity is kind of boring
for students. You may lose students attentions in the middle of your lesson. I wish you can be more creative next time.
Another thing is her voice, it’s not clear enough. I think she should open her mouth bigger, it might help. There is one
more thing I need to mention is her attire. It is not suitable for a teacher to wear jeans to her class. Try to wear
appropriately to the class next time.
Good evening guys
ReplyDeleteFor ting ting's lesson, I have something to say.
Good points
First, I noticed that she made the multiple choices questions from short to long, which is good. Madam Adel mentioned that before. Second, she is a very patient teacher, she explains students' questions again and again.
Improvement
First, as everyone said, you needs to work on your pronunciation. Try to make it clear and loud, make sure that your students can easily understand your words.
Secondly, the worksheet for hign level students and low level students. Try to avoid the problem like the activity is too hard for poor students and too easy for good students.
Lastly, be careful when you choose the poem.
You will be better next time~ thank you
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteYour topic chosen is very meaningful. Students can explore more through discussing this kind of topics because it is related to students’ life experience. Also, your pictures chosen were all related to your topic. Here are some suggestions for you:
First of all, you should dress more formal, instead of wearing jeans. And then, when you prepare reading materials especially poems, you should think more about arranging them properly and the usage of punctuations. This is the problem that we should consider as well. Thirdly, you directly explained the meaning of the poem that day. If you let students think more, I think it could be better. Overall, good topic, good try. Thank you.
I think Tingting’s voice was loud enough, but what was not good is her pronunciation was not clear. Some of the words sound very strange while she was talking. She was very patient because she explain the poem to us for many times and she tried her best to answer students’ question even she didn’t solve students’ problems. I think she paid effort on it. Otherwise, she may give students some questions about the poem to practice students’ reading comprehension abilities before explain the whole poem in details. Maybe next time Tingting should wear a formal suit. I believe Tingting will do better next time
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, the topic is interesting. The pictures chosen were also attractive to students. But you need to work on your voice projection and your pronunciation. Also It will be better if you dress more formal. you need to adapt to your teaching materials. All in all, nice try, keep it up.
ReplyDeleteWell, hello, Jia Xin! Welcome aboard! Thanks for the suggestions.
ReplyDeleteGood points:
ReplyDeleteShe explained the poem a few times to the students.
Aspects to work on:
Firstly, what concern everyone the most was her attire. Ting-ting, we must wear formal attire to school. Open your mouth bigger Ting-ting because we can't understand certain words from you. Choose a better poem (without a lot of punctuation) or maybe a famous poem (from well-known poet) so we won't detect much problem during the discussion in the class. Try a group discussion for the students so that they could understand the poem better.