OUR TEACHER is coming to our school to watch us!! That was amazing. I was absolutely nervous and made so many mistakes.

About first activity, warming up the class with TPR technique was found good and effective by our teacher. She thinks it was a good start and take all the class into the lesson at the beginning.

After that, about the first activity, it was a reading activity, and after all we thought we should read aloud as a teacher.  Students were starting to distract. So, we made them read silently. But our teacher told us this was bad for class management. We tried to find easy passage for 5th grade but of course there were some words they didn’t know. We should make them clear so asked them to tell us the words they don’t know and write them to the board. As our teacher said it was completely different from the reading activity and we diverged from the main activity for 5 minutes. Then, we thought it would be better to use the blackboard for true/false questions about the passage.  She told it would be better writing them under the passage so the students could read the passage and answer the questions easily. She was completely right.

We had problems about the time using. As we had limited time for the second activity and the final activity we should be fast doing them. Our teacher said there were too many worksheets distributed and students could have problems to control and solve all of them. She said we could use the board for some of the activities instead of too many worksheets. We rushed for the rest of the activities and it seemed they couldn’t reach their aim and students barely understand and answer the questions activities included. Last activities were better but as the time was limited we couldn’t give the effect we planned to give before.

In conclusion, we suffered from not being well-prepared and inadequacy of class management. 

On Friday morning, we did a micro teaching lesson for 5^th grade and it took just 30 minutes. We asked the teacher of the class we go as interns the subject of the lesson and she answered that she had to pass to the present continuous tense so she can go with the curriculum correctly. We thought we could do good start in this subject. But as it is the first time students see this tense in the lesson, we thought it would be better to write the structure of the sentence in the present continuous tense to the board. But our teacher in her reflections told us that the lesson should be more inductive. She also added this activity isn’t appropriate for learners of this age. This activity might be used in the courses but in the government schools students must be more involved in the class by the teacher. There was not adequate language acquisition. As seen in the video, main language was used too much and this is a problem for comprehension of the second language. Almost all of the instructions told in Turkish. We watched after and we found our teacher right. She also added we had problems in class management. She said teacher should be sure his/her students follow him/her.

In the second activity, she said it was a good activity for learners of this age. It was good to interact with the students. The activity includes acting out. We tried to do this activity with whole class. But she said it could be well-prepared. Sometimes we had problems as seen in the video. Instructions were Turkish so it was negative for us. But we can say this activity saved today’s lesson and give the students ideas about present continuous tense.