Learned much from the observation! Helpful ideas listed below.
John:
- combines all handout into a "packet"... staple it, so students will know exactly where they are at in the lesson
- effectively put cloze example sentences on ppt for various activities, such as for in class quiz, it is also effectively used when summarizing the reading (the teacher writes a summary of the reading, and then pick one or two important phrases and make it a blank for students to fill in in class)
- very good control of time and all facilities including when to play CD are all set, wasting no time
- uses questions to interact with students, and when students don't know how to answer, uses paraphrase or another aspect of questioning to help them out
- allows students to guess before giving the answer
- moves next to the ppt to point to where the teacher is talking about
- relates the content of the poem with the author's personality
- encourages students to comprehend the poem better by asking comprehensive questions now and then
- uses a clear graph to show the paragraph structures and main ideas of the reading
