Day 20: Teaching Practice Evaluation

Today was an important day. My field supervisor from VRU (Ms. Nit) observed me today. Not only observed, she also evaluated and scored my teaching practice. She came to Pakklong song school with Ms. Nina at 9 pm. When they were coming to my classroom, I was starting the class and having a brainstorming. Actually I felt a little bit nervous, but I could handle it well. I taught about ‘action verb’ today. I chose that topic because I would like students to be familiar with some action verbs before coming up to the next topic (present tense). Moreover, the activity that I used in the presentation was using flashcard visualization, using ‘Mime game’ in the practice activity, and using crossword for production. After class ended, Ms. Nit and Ms. Nina gave me some feedbacks about my teaching practicece. They said to me,” there isn’t a perfect teaching”. So, below are some feedbacks of my teaching practice:

• The warm-up activity should be relevant with the topic. For example, teacher asks students to sing a song about action verbs. This is the example of song about action verb: 

We kick to the left
We kick to the right
We jump forward
We jump backward
Hop! Hop! Hop!

• The whole activities should be more communicative. Teacher have to use Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in the class. For example, using Total Physical Response (TPR) method to deliver the materials. By using TPR method, students will move their body so that they will be more active and fun to learn English. 
• Do not use a lot of vocabularies in a day because students will be confused. Teach students only a few of vocabularies and give them the example of very basic sentence using the vocabularies. 

Those feedbacks will be very useful to improve my teaching practice in the future. I know I still have many shortcomings in teaching. Therefore, I need to learn more to become a professional teacher. How grateful I am to join this program because I can learn a lot of things concerning to teaching and learning. That’s all for today :)