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The conversation lesson planned this time focuses not only on providing students
opportunities to use the target language in a natural context but also raising their awareness of
cultural differences. Students were asked to make a poster presentation about national holidays
in different countries in groups of three. Jobs were assigned to each person in the group, one
was the speaker, one was the note-taker, and the last person was the presenter. The knowledge
of direct and indirect objectives was the grammar focus in this lesson.
There were several successful deliveries in this lesson. First of all was the pace of the
lesson, all the steps I planned were fluently delivered and students knew 90% of my instruction,
which was an improvement compared to the previous delivery. The second improvement I
made was the time control, although it took ten more minutes than I estimated to complete this
lesson, students didnt get tired from the instruction or the time given for each practice and
activity. Finally, I was glad that I took instructors commend in concern to switch the topic
from celebrating new year to celebrating national holiday. The new topic led to great
group discussion. Students were very involved into the preparation of the presentation. I could
see every student puts effort to make their jobs well done.
On the contrary to the good points, there were also some changes could be made for this
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lesson. To begin with, there were repeated instructions about what each person was going to do
in the group work. According to the peer and instructor reflection, I mentioned the job
distribution three times in this lesson. Although it was a good idea to embed the instruction into
the reading, I should be aware of not to give the same instruction again and again. I think I was
afraid that students couldnt understand what they were going to do so I was well prepared on
the instruction. Actually, I found out that the paper guidelines for students were not needed;
students had already gotten what they need to do from the reading. Second, I would also want
to remind myself the importance of classroom language. I said something that unrespectable to
one student when I told him to changed seat. I immediately felt ashamed after I said this. It was
the biggest mistake I have made since I started doing teaching delivery. The languages I use
outside the classroom sometimes were not that proper but I should avoid saying them while I
am teaching. Regarding to the grammar focus, the instructor suggested that I could use the
grammar structures more in the reading. There were only three sentences in the reading. I
agreed with this comment because I realized that students awareness of the structures couldnt
be evaluated in this lesson. Although they knew the rules and forms of the target structure, I
didnt know if they could distinguish the patterns in the real context. Finally, I should also be
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more careful and double-check the materials I planned to use in this lesson. I felt disappointed
that there were always mistakes on my worksheets and slides, which make me look like an
unprofessional teacher. I realized that I relied too much on others to find out what I did wrong.
I used to do teaching delivery in a group when I was studying language instruction in university,
I often asked my group members to check whether there were any errors on my materials.
job.
To sum up this experience, I like what I planned for this lesson; the steps were coherent
and matched to the main objectives. What I should improve in the future is the usefulness of
instruction, whether its too unclear or too much. Meanwhile, carefulness of the context in the
materials is another very important consideration; mistakes I made might mislead students to
get the right information. Furthermore, to be a professional teacher should be more cautious
about the language I used and consider the effectiveness of every steps I planned.