Midterm Report
April 26, 2007 — shiuyoFeedback to Group Five
April 24, 2007 — shiuyo I had a lot of fun in their presentation; in fact I liked their class procedure.
At the beginning, they used some simple questions and images to help us establish basic idea or background of the reading context. But while explaining the meaning of it, it’s too quickly to follow up; and when it comes to some new words, though teacher explained it by simple sentence and supplied some similar words for us, the teacher forgot to state it clearly. For example, we couldn’t figure out the word which told by teacher was “passion” or “patience”.
About the game, I really like it and it’s really fun. As teacher Alice has said, through their game, I learned a new way to control the time, and I believe students would also love it. Moreover, in the process of the game, controlling situation and order is also an important thing; we can’t make the class out of control.
Using a competition to make students read actively is a successful method, especially a group-to-group competition, the peer support, encouragement, and honor actually works a lot in helping students have motivations to read.
Feedback to Group Four
April 17, 2007 — shiuyo In the presentation of group four, they established the atmosphere to carry us into the speaking practice. They used the visual aids to assist in teaching speaking. Through the website they introduced us; we could easily get the idea of the topic they wanted to express. At the same time, we could learn from the demonstration of the visual website; we could imitate or learn their tone, words and sentences, and even some grammar.
According to this point, we could know that transferring the abstract idea into concreteness is useful and helpful to teaching. In addition, the two teachers are great, too. They didn’t use too many assistants in their teaching, in this way they could avoid the equipment problems affecting the teaching process and plan. From this part, I know that a well-prepared lesson doesn’t necessarily involve a lot of assistants.
And in their or our presentation, we could see that activity do help learning. Students could learn and get reinforcement from activities. Then after activities, it’s necessary to give some assignments to make sure students could review and did learn the subject from the class.
