For this week classroom observation, I don’t “really” get the thing that is effective or ineffective in the classroom, because for this week I only observed two classes and one of them is having a listening examination.
For the grammar class, what is effective enough based on what I observed is the teacher let the students to understand the concept of active and passive sentence by themselves. The teacher just asked them and encourage them to recall their understanding about that lesson. All the students showed their enthusiastic in giving the answer. Then the teacher give the student exercise. The teacher asked the answer of the question to the student. One number for one student. After the teacher got the answer from the student, she discussed it and asked why the students gave her those kind of answer. It required an analytical skill to explained the answer. If the students did not give the right answer , teacher will ask them to analyze the characteristic of the sentence. With this method, students will learn from their mistake and hopefully they will not repeat the sama mistake in the future. According to my observation, actually I still wondering is drilling method (teacher give the concept and lots of worksheets) is effective enough to make the students familiar to the concept? Besides teaching a lesson, the teacher also taught the students to behave. There is one student who is quite naughty and when he wanted to do silly things, the teacher always remind hi to behave. Discipline and classroom rules is very important. Without these two things, I think that effective learning will not happen.
If I have to teach them, maybe i will give them a warming up games because the teacher just go directly to the course and it makes the classroom monotonous. Sometimes as a teacher we are too theoretical and forget that our students also need some jokes or games ro refresh their mind and soul. As a teacher, discipline is number one. It does not mean that you have to scream or get angry all the time. What is more important is you always stick to classroom rules and agreement and try to understand the class and students condition.
