9/27
For today's lesson, we looked at the article "Approaches to classroom investigation in teaching".
Below are some concepts I especially liked:
-Reflect is the source of personal growth.
-The two main reasons for keeping a journal are:
(1)To reflect later. (2)The process of writing it triggers insights about teaching.
-Review your journals regularly, and the important elements that you neglected may surface and help you enhance your teaching.
-Lesson Plan and Lesson Report serves different purposes. In a Lesson Report, you list out all the possible methods you could use and then mark down the one you actually used, by doing this you can compare your teaching method among the pool of choices. In a Lesson Plan, it only records what methods you use, it does not show what other methods you could've used, but it serves the purpose of systematically recording what you did so you can later reflect on it.
-Other than doing a survey or audio recording, one can also use interview to better understand a student's needs.
-The checklists for the Reflection Journal looked very useful. Some of my favourites... also ones that I need to focus more on are:
1.Did you discover anything new about your teaching?
2.What changes do you think you should make in your teaching?
3.What do you think students really learned from the lesson?
4.Where am I in my professional development?
5. What satisfaction does language teaching give me?
*A short reminder for myself: Do try to record the reflection of the class on the same day, or else you may forget the many innovative ideas and reflections you came up with and you may not find time to do it anymore.
