Rasha’s blog

Today was my second day in  Al-Jurf  Secondary School. I decided to observe two different lessons with English teachers.

I went to observe an English lesson with Miss Mariam for grade 11 Art. The classroom designed  for 5 groups. Teacher started with little exercise for the students to be active. She used to change students places to gain and share ideas with other students. The lesson was reviewing about the (Characteristics of the Hero). Teacher create two different activities for students at the same time. She distributed  filling crossword activity for high level students and she gave the low level students the missing word. Two activities were reviewing students understanding of new words related to hero. Moreover, she used to gave them a listening exercise using her laptop. In the end of the lesson, she let students to practice their speaking with their partners.

Next, I observe a lesson for Miss Sheikha an English teacher. She taught in LRC  for grade 10 and they are low level students. She started the lesson by writing learning outcomes on the board and she connected her laptop with multimedia. The lesson was about (Fact and opinion). She started with small activity. She used to give them involves with sentences and they have to classify the fact and the opinion. After that, teacher used to show sentences on the PowerPoint and she let 5 students from each group to come to the board and circle the expression that shows the opinion. Moreover, she let them to work as group to reorder the words to make full sentences.  Also, teacher gave them a chance to write collaboratively some sentences shows their opinion about students putting make up in school. Finally, she ask them to work individually and write 4 sentences about their opinion of working women. She showed them the opinion expression on the board to assist the students.

To reflect on the second lesson, I like the part where the teacher write down the learning outcomes on the board. This help her to see the tasks that she has to follow step by step.  I think teacher used different activities in the classroom to motivate students to learn and build their knowledge. She doesn’t use technology  to create creative thing such as using video, audio, images and games…etc. I believe that technology will enhance her to have novel ideas. Moreover, students will be more motivate it especially they are low level students.

Tonight, I will begin to think about other teachers that I have to observe such as Science and Math teachers. Also, I will begin to collect questions that will help me later on in developing materials for teachers.

It is the first day in the week of my work placement. I saw my SST and gave her the scheduled booklet.

 It was difficult to take classrooms photo because all English classrooms were busy. During the break time, I took photos of LRC (Listening Research Center) which designed for low level students. The idea of this project was for my SST Natalie to improve the students in their English. She reordered the schedule of Art and Science students to have an English lesson on the same time. As a result, the low level students gathered in one classroom and the high level students from different classrooms gathered in another classroom.  I feel that this project is a good idea because low level students need more attention to develop theirselves.  

 The classroom divided to 5 groups of 5 students on circle tables. There are many posters and cards distributed in the wall. Moreover, I found 4 shelves contain different materials such as videos, Reading practice, different types of stories and over 140 dictionaries. Besides that, the classroom has 10 computers with headphones to practice listening skill. Also, there was one over head projector, a printer , and a multimedia projector.

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After the break time, I observe a lesson in LRC for Miss Bassema and it lasted for an hour. First of all, teacher settle her laptop and connect it with the multimedia. She reviewed the last lesson with the students and elicit vocabulary from them. The new lesson was about the “Characteristic of the Hero”. Teacher showed her students  a hidden picture which was Tom and Jerry Cartoon and she gave  them a chance to guess it. Then, she  showed them a video of the cartoon for 10 minutes. Afterward, she elicit information and helping students to build new vocabulary.  Subsequently, she let them to work as group to write the characteristic of the hero.  Finally, each students wrote down their own hero and explain why they chose it.

To reflect on my observation, I think  integrating technology in the lesson motivate students and break out the routine. Moreover, I believe using group work to collaborate and  share ideas help students to gain new information and build new vocabularies. Finally, I think, it is a good thing to give students a chance to be confident by allowing them to talk and describe about their own hero in front of students.

Today was my first day in Al-Jurf  Secondary School in Ajman. It is a government school and one of Alghad Project School. My day began with meeting the principle. Then, I met my SST Natalie who is an English Coordinator.

I took tour in the school with my SST and I met other teachers. Next 3 weeks, I have to work hard by collecting data and interviews English, Math and Science teachers .  

Good Luck to All in Your Work Placement J