Observation of Experienced Teachers

CELTA Observation Booklet

OBSERVATION OF EXPERIENCED TEACHERS

You will be doing a total of at least six hours? formal observation of experienced teachers during the course. The procedure for these is as follows:

? Unless given a specific task (DVD observations), refer to the Observation Booklet for the task of the day and make notes on it whilst observing.

? You can use additional tasks taken from the following pages for live observations.

? You can also set your own tasks by referring to your areas to work on from your most recent Teaching Practice lesson(s), the areas you have identified in your personal aims or mid-course Action Plan, or the areas covered in recent input sessions which have interested you.

? You should set yourself more than one task; it is little use focusing on spoken correction if the lesson you are watching turns out to concern reading, for example. Please ask your tutors if in doubt, however.

? During the observation, take some notes under your task headings.

? After the observation, write a brief summary of what you have learned from the observation. This will inform your Lessons from the Classroom assignment. You can also raise any questions with your tutors in input.

OBSERVATION OF TEACHING PRACTICE

You will be teaching for a total of six hours, or eight assessed lessons. When you are not teaching, you will be watching your peers teach, and after the lessons you will be giving feedback to your colleagues on aspects of the lesson. There are specific tasks for each teaching practice lesson in this Observation Booklet, but again, feel free to focus on other aspects of the lessons as well. Keep your notes. They will also inform your Lessons from the Classroom assignment.

OBSERVATION ETIQUETTE

? Seat yourself behind the students, never "with" them

? Participate only if asked by the teacher and don't talk to the students during class time (if a student asks for your help, direct them back to the teacher)

? Don?t talk to your peers when the teacher is speaking or while the students are working quietly and individually on a task

? Don't leave the classroom before the mid-lesson break or before the lesson finishes

? You should also do the activities and tasks the teacher sets yourself so you can see how they work and how successful you think they are (so make a couple of extra copies for your colleagues to share when you are teaching)

Observation of Experienced Teachers

Day 1: On the first day of the course, you will observe the tutors teaching the TP group you will be teaching for the first half of the course. There are three tasks for this observation:

1. Getting-to-know-you stages: try to learn the students? names. Draw a map of the classroom (as it is today) and note the students? names as you hear them.

2.Rest of the lesson: note down the stages of the lesson and the aims of each stage as you see them ? you may need these notes during input later.

3.Note how the teacher does the following in the lesson

EXPERIENCED TEACHERS? OBSERVATION REPORT for subsequent observations

Teacher?s name:__________________ Date:_______________

Observer?s name:_______________ School:____________

Level of class:___________________ Lesson duration:_____

Please consider what aspects you need to work on in your teaching. Tick the relevant boxes below to show what aspects you would like to focus on observing the lesson. Take notes of anything important, but pay special attention to these aspects.

I?d like to focus on ?

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