Her Set Induction would surely capture her students' attention because it caught your friends'.
Love the activity where you got friends to write descriptions of the two in front and paste these descriptions on the students. Just think about how you would do this in a co-ed school. Boys describe the boy in front and girls describe the girl? No, boys should not paste descriptions on Wang Yi. :-)
There were some mistakes in the sample passage. As much as I love samples before a writing activity, we must ensure that the samples are clear of mistakes. MUST make sure of this, okay?
I like the part where she got the students to exchange their writing. Peer checking is a very good way of reducing teachers' load. Remember, we learned about peer scaffolding by van Lier as one type of scaffolding developed from Vygotsky's (1978) Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). I hope you still remember this.
Of course, this type of error list will have to be given to students early in the year. As they get used to what you mean by 'Wrong Form', 'Wrong Tense' etc, they would have no problems checking their friends' work. Remember to include the use of symbols to represent these. e.g., Wrong tense: T, Wrong spelling: SP. You can choose to create these symbols but stick to simple codes. We do not want your students to suffer when deciphering your codes. There have been cases where some teachers got too ambitious and ambiguous with their codes, that nobody could understand them.
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ReplyDeleteCherry began her lesson with a very eye-catching picture. Her set induction will manage to attract students’ attention because I believe every student in Malaysia knows these cartoon character. It’s a very creative way to relate the picture with her topic, friendship. I LOVE the sticky notes activity, where students have to describe good criteria of their friends and paste it on their friends’ body. This will be a very interesting activity to be conducted in the class. I’m sure students will love it too. It is a very good activity for post-writing because she asked students to write a sentence to describe their friends. The sample of the essay that she used also nice because it was short and simple, students will understand it easily and would not get confuse. It will be better if she explained a little bit about the structure of an essay to refresh students memory. When I was in secondary school, I still remember every time we were asked to write an essay teacher will keep repeating the essay’s structure.
During while writing, Cherry asked her students to write a complete essay in the class. I think it would be better if she only asked them to write only one or two paragraph because it is time consuming if after that she wants them to use the error list and check their friend’s mistakes. They can do the complete essay as a homework. The “error list” is a good way to conduct peer evaluation. Although she said students already have previous knowledge about the “error list”, but I think she still need to explain briefly to the students to refresh their memories or at least ask them whether they have any problem with it before she asked them to start correcting.
Overall, GOOD JOB CUTE TEACHER ^_^
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ReplyDeleteAt first before Cherry's presentation, I was not really like the cartoon as an set induction. I was thinking, "Oh,gosh. What she will do with that cartoon for secondary students?". Then after that I realised that her set induction was really eyes-catching ! I love it and I will use it in my lesson in future. The flow is very clear and as what Mdm has said, check your work before you give it to your students. Other than that, I like your lesson ! :)
I like her activity that everyone write down a friend’s good character on a paper and put it on his/her body. It involves all students to enjoy the activity, and it laid the foundations for writing practice later, and I like her topic. She also taught some words with meanings and examples that students may use them to describe their friends. The sample she provided to students was not difficult but there were some mistakes in it. There should be no any mistakes in materials for students. Otherwise, it may be better if she explain the mistakes students may have more in details.
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ReplyDeleteCherry did as well as last time. Each time you started to speak, you can attract students’ attention. There is always good atmosphere in your class. Besides that, your lesson designed was very good. The game part was very interesting and furthermore it could enlarge students’ vocabularies. Then, you provided the sample essay and error list. You thought a lot to help your students writing. There is one thing you should improve is that you should briefly explain the items on the work list, some students may not know all of them. Moreover, you should avoid the grammatical errors. Overall, you did so well.
than you for your kindly suggestions. i will make sure i check the grammatical error in the sample next time. and some of you
ReplyDeletemention that i should enrich the students' previous knowledge about the error list, i totally agree with that. For the
while writing, i told the students that they have finish at least two paragraphs. for the weak students they can write two
paragraphs and high level students they can write more. i will remember your suggestions and try to do better next time.
thank you!