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classroom observation task (part one) (Who is this book for? (Teachers, …
classroom observation task (part one)
Observation for learning
This book is about observation as a learning tool. it is about being an observer in the language learning classroom and learning from the observation of classroom processes.
Make observation in the classroom a learning experience, observation is a multi-faceted tool for learning, the experience of observing comprises more than the time actually spent in the classroom.
The preparation can include the selection of a focus and purpose and a method of data collection, as well as collaboration with others involved.
Who observes?
observation can serve a number of people in a number of contexts
is addressed mainly to classroom teachers engaged in observation as part of their professional development.
Trainee teachers who observe teachers
teacher trainers who observe trainees teaching
teacher developers
trainee trainers
For what purpose?
The primary one considered here is teachers professional growth and development
Give some guidance or structure to the process of observation.
Who is this book for?
Teachers, trainee teacher, trainer,
people involved in school-based support,
-people involved in trainer training .
Classroom observation tasks seeks to provide stimulus and ideas for ways of exploring one's own teaching by observing other teachers and classroom in action
is important that teacher involved are interested in teaching and in the various processes that occur and co-occur in language.
It is important that these experiences are used in the process of learning to become a teacher
The classroom therefore should play a key role in the training process, the tasks can be used by teacher trainers as a part of their training sessions in a variety of ways
Teacher development is widely understood to be something very different: it is something that happens within classroom and within oneself.
Why a book on observation
Being an observer in the classroom, rather than the teacher, releases us from these concerns and affords us the freedom to look at the lesson from a range of different perspectives outside that of the actual lesson plan of the teacher.
A trainee teacher with the freedom to observe teaching is allowed time and space to become familair with the culture of the classroom
Observation tasks will structure and guide the silent phase of the trainee teacher's course of study.
Developing the skill of observing serves a dual purpose: it helps teachers gain a better understanding of their own teaching while at the same time refines their ability to observe.
What are observation tasks?
observation task is focussed activity to work on while observing a lesson in progress, it focusses on one or a small numbar of aspects of teaching or learning
The observer have to collect data or information from the actual lesson, such as the language a teacher uses when giving instructions or the patterns of interaction that emerge in a lesson.
Why tasks?
using an observation task helps the observer in two important ways:
It limits the scope of what one is observing and allows one to focus on one or two particular aspects.
it provides a convenient means of collecting data that frees the observer from forming an opinion or making an on-the-spot evaluation during the lesson.
How the tasks are organised
The tasks are grouped into the following sections
Learner 2. language 3. learning
lesson 5. teaching skills 6.classroom 7. materials
This categorisation of tasks into different focuses is employed to create an ordered and easily usable book. it is not meant to suggest that different aspects of classroom behaviour are to be rigidly confined to one focus and nowhere else.
It is not expected that the tasks will be selected in the order in which they appear, but rather that the selection wll be made on the basis of teacher's needs and concerns
Diferent people will approach the tasks for different reasons and with different objectives in mind. the tasks themselves, however, follow a standard format
Before the lesson
During the lesson
After the lesson
How to use the tasks
As a forerunner to the practical module of your training course, you are asked to observe a number of lessons over a certain period of time.
This book will give you the structure and guidance that you need to help make sense of what initially may be very unfamiliar terrain,
The observation tasks are closely integrated into your training programme and a trainer or co-operating teacher selects a particular skills for a set of lesson to be observed
In the teaching practice phrase, the focus is often on the teacher's performance. this book takes the focus away from the performance element of teaching and places it on the observation of teaching
A period of guided bservation will prepare teachers for the kinds of decision-making that they will engage in throughout their careers.