POST-TEACHING SELF EVALUATION FORM  

Please answer the following questions after you complete Final Teaching Task.

What were the strong aspects of your teaching? What are the points that you are happy with in your teaching experience?

One of the aspects of this lesson I am rather happy about is the learner involvement we attracted via the choice of topic. As the lesson mainly focused on writing, I was quite happy with the creative and intimate environment we were able to achieve in class. The learners were highly motivated, and they wrote incredibly advanced and grammatically correct dialogues with their group members, which was the main goal of the lesson.

If you had a chance to re-do the Teaching Task, what are the things you would change? What were the aspects of the activity or your teaching that could be/need to be re-designed if you had a second chance?

Unfortunately, I have to admit that, although this lesson was the one I personally have enjoyed the most, it was also the one which has caused the most trouble for us. The lesson was addressing integrated skills; it was actually a writing focused one. As the learners were encouraged a lot to work in collaboration which their classmates, this excessive amount of freedom has led them to act uncontrollably naughty. It became a torture to try to silence them. Following the group work activity, we also had a role-play session at the very end of the lesson. The act-outs also turned into a nightmare, as most of the students didn’t pay any attention to the performances of the other groups, instead, they chose to focus on their own act-outs, and they lines they were about to utter.

What are some of the issues mentioned in your mentor’s feedback? How do you respond to these comments?

Our mentor teacher has also touched upon the above mentioned troubles we went through in the lesson, and advised us to limit the number of such kind of activities involving collaboration until we know it for sure that we have a full control over the class and I guess she has made a point. As the learners knew that we were not their actual teachers, they also knew that it wouldn’t make much difference whether they followed our orders or not. She also told us that we should avoid placing this kind of activities on our final teaching lesson plan, and so we did.