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?

This lesson plan was the very first one we had implemented this semester. It was a 40 minute lesson, focusing on literature. One of the strengths of this lesson I can think of is its loyalty to the course book the learners were following in class. In this way, every single vocabulary item we covered was revised within a meaningful context. I have also observed that the learners quickly adapted to our teaching style and tried to collaborate with us, which made to rather satisfied with my teaching experience.

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?

As already mentioned above, this lesson plan was the very first one we conducted this semester. That’s why; we had some additional nervousness affecting us, which was no longer present during the other three teaching experiences. This nervousness led into a weak introduction to the lesson, which could have been done in a much more enthusiastic and attention drawing way. The learners obviously experienced some difficulty in grasping what was really going on in class. The rest of the lesson, however, went without any further complications. Therefore, if I got the chance to change this lesson, I would work harder on its introduction, and try to re-adapt the opening poem in a clearer way.

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

As this was our very first teaching experience, our mentor teacher didn’t focus on our negative aspects but majorly on our positive ones. Therefore, she has encouraged us to continue creating creative lesson plans like this one. She has mentioned over and over again that the lesson was alright in general, and that we shouldn’t be discouraged by our mistakes. One weakness she pointed out was that we could try to make a student who has understood what was going on in class explain it to his/her classmates. In this way, we could have avoided the little chaos environment we had faced for a while before it was clear to everybody that we were dealing with shape poems as our lesson focus.