Records of Teaching Practice

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1kGeSKXiVo&t=299s  Video Lesson Observation What is your general reflection on the lesson? Overall, while there were some positive aspects of this lesson, the lesson seemed to be very scattered and without purpose. It is hard to understand what the goal language there was in this lesson as many different topics were mentioned and used. Animals, colours, numbers, fruit interposed with other general questions which only had simple one word answers. There is no clear direction of what the lesson was leading towards and no notion of what the main activity was going to be until the story time actually occurred. Besides the lack of structure in the lesson, the students had no space to grow their language skills and improve as they were only able to give singular vocabulary answers without anything else. The teacher also did not attempt to illicit any phrase or sentence building. Even something as simple as using "it is..." during one of the...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El3g57taeKs What is your general reflection on the lesson? Overall, I really enjoyed watching this lesson. It was high energy throughout and the teacher kept the attention of the majority of the students for most of the time. I can see the methods and tactics that he uses and by keeping the lessons fast moving and open for the students to participate, it keeps the class engaged and excited for the activities. The last game especially had everyone's attention as it had become a competitive game where both teams wanted to gain points and win. It looked to me, like keeping everything going and also giving small verbal behaviour warnings was built in to the fast pace environment of the teacher's methods as well as the overall environment which had been created. It was very entertaining and a positive experience to see the whole classroom engaged (even with some minor behaviour issues). What do you think are the strong...