Observation Report- 2 Abubakar & Füsun

OBSERVATION REPORT- 2

WEEK 3 & 4

Students’ Teachers Name: Abubakar Suleiman & Füsun Çeliker

Student Teachers’ Number: 2012177150/ 2012177030

School Name: Celalettin Seyhan Primary School

Supervisor: Yonca Özkan

Mentor: Mrs. Özel Vuran

In our third and fourth week of this semester, we have observed two classes which have lasted for eight hours consecutively as how it is instructed, and below are our necessary priorities of our observation in an ascending order.

1.      Pre-Presentation

2.     While-Practice

3.     Post-Production

Under the above mentioned we are also responsible for examine each and every routine and the reasons or purposes behind that very activity. Below we are going to see each and every activity performed by our mentor and there's what's on behind it.

Task 1

Pre-Presentation

Beginning of the lesson: The lesson we observed, started by a short daily greeting as usual as in ''Good morning teacher!'', ''I am fine, thanks.'', ''What about you?'' followed by a joke made by the teacher to students.

Reason: Greeting is almost compulsory to exist between the teacher and the students, but the most important thing is to born in mind is engaging the students right away and catching their attention at the beginning of the lesson. But not every teacher realised that. So also our mentor made some jokes for the main purpose of receiving the students hundred percent attention, so that there shouldn’t be any disconnection during the lesson delivery.

Consolidation/revision: After the teacher captured everyone's attention, she continued with revising what they have covered in their previous lesson which is friendship, as follows.

T: Try to remember what we did last week.

(At this point, there was a total silent of the students. No student has said a word, and the teacher insisted again.)

T: Geçen hafta ne yaptık diyorum? Hatırlayınız.

S1: Hocam şey yaptık... Friendship?

T: I am not talking about the topic, en son ne yaptık friendship ile alakalı? (After that the students started to remember and gave the right answer to the teacher.)

Reason: In order to make sure the students comprehend what the teacher have taught them previously and re-inculture it again and again, so that the students find it difficult to forget.

Schemas connection : After undergoing the stage of revision, the teacher try as much as possible to see how much the students know about the new topic ‘’ Cooking’’  as in words related to cooking and how to cook fish, chicken, potatoes, etc.

Reason : For the main purpose of knowing how much the students know about the topic, and what is misssing so as to fix it.

While Practice

Explaination of different cooking kinds: At this stage the teacher made an obvious explaination different cooking style, for instance baking, boiling, roasting, steaming, grilling, frying effectively, and sometimes used while cooking like cut, slice, peel, chop, spread, dice ets, and cohesive devices as in after, before, then and so on and so forth.

Question : After explaining different kind of cooking, so many questions were asked by the teacher as in referencial, display, and procedural. The teacher asked the students individually about how do they cook for example eggs, Turkish rice, bread, macaroni, potatoes, etc. She described processes how to make a french toast, how to make Turkish pilav.

Reason : For checking understanding and to notice how much do they comprehend about a particular sort of cooking.

Matching activities : Lots of matching activities were given by the teacher for another method of checking understanding from the coursebook or the students’ book. For example, ''Read about how to make a vegetable pizza. Match the steps with the photo or look at the photos of how to make a bread. Read the recipe. Guess the meaning of the words.'' etc. 

Calling register: After the teacher kept the students busy with matching activities then she started to call the attendence.

Reason : In order to make sure everyone have attended that the lesson and to find out who's the absentee. The teacher callled attendence at that material time so as to take a break and regain her power of speech back.

Post- Production

Summary: At this point, the teacher wrote some written summary of the lesson ‘’ Cooking’’ on the board and later on asked the students to make an oral summary of what they have learned so far, since from the beginning of the lesson without looking at their books. Many of the students responded to the teacher whereas few of them responded by looking at the course book.

Homework : Eventually, before the class was dismissed, the homework were given with the details of how to do it.