Classroom Observation Report

INTRODUCTIONThe school that we pass water chosen for our schoolroom observation is SMK Mutiara Rini which is situated at Jalan Persiaran Utama, Taman Mutiara Rini, Skudai Johor Bahru. This school consists of 2250 students from various level of proficiency. We have decided to observe misfire Niwashini Nambiar d/o Aravindan whom are one of our concourse mates for this classroom observation assignment.Miss Niwashini Nambiar has been training side wrangle for both lower and upper lower-ranking for three years. We notice the lower secondary group students whom are in form 2 UKM. There are 32 students in 2 UKM and their English language proficiency level is intermediate.TEACHING METHODOLOGYBefore we went to observe Miss Niwashini, we already prepared an observation checklist to make sure that by the end of the observation, we allow for be suitable to argue on the methodology use of goods and servicesd by the instructor during pedagogy and learning session. Throughout the less on, we observed that the instructor minimized the use of mother tongue. She only used it when it was the last resort to make the students to a lower placestand a particular term or word used during the lesson.The teaching techniques were organized for learners to learn communicative function. During the narrow down induction for example, the teacher came out with just aboutthing that triggered students prior knowledge, thus we can see that the students were mostly eager to come up to and participate in the conversation. This is parallel with the principle underpinning Communicative row Teaching (CLT) where according to Brown (2001), CLT involves the use of language productively and receptively where the teacher facilitates and guides the learners to practice language skills in the classroom.For the activities chosen by the teacher during the lesson, we observed that it involved real life communication and also rich mix of classroom activities were implemented, where group work , pair work were all integrated during the lesson. For the group work activity, it allows the students to interact with one another, even round of them still communicate using their mother tongue except, we observed that some of them did tried to use English as much as they can.The lesson was not focused mainly on the form of language but its function as considerably, where the teacher tried to make the students able to use the tar crush language using the activities done during the lesson. We found that the set induction as well as the activities conducted by the teacher jump to what has been suggested by Larsen-Freeman (2000) that true communicative activities have three main features information gap, choice and feedback, using current material in a small group activities.By taking the first activity conducted for example, where the students get into a group of five, it applied task-based learning which the students need to complete the task at the same condemnation used th e target language and the language acquisition will eventually happen. Another thing that we observed during the class lesson was that the teachers goal of teaching was to develop students communicative competence. The opportunities for the students to develop fluency and accuracy were provided by the teacher especially when the students were given a chance to present their work to the class and they got to receive feedback from peers as well as from the teacher.Parrish (2004) advocates that in CLT class, teachers role is mainly as facilitator to guide the students in the interaction that takes place during teaching and learning session. This can be seen throughout the lesson, where Miss Niwashini did not dominated the lesson and the students speaking condemnation is maximized by being the main communicator in classroom. From what we have observed, we can conclude Miss Niwashini had integrated Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in her teaching and learning session where she had emphasized on the communication in real-life land site to deliver the lesson. In this report, we also included her lesson plan for that particular lesson to give a clearer view on her teaching and learning session that day.As what is believed by Mustapha Yahaya (2013) that the successful implementation of CLT in English language teaching depends largely on the teachers understanding. We can say that Miss Niwashinis lesson truly has almost all the beliefs under CLT which it was reflected through the way she conducted her lesson in the classroom. This can be seen from her methods and techniques applied during the lesson, the way she designed the activities for her students and the materials used for the activities.LESSON PLANCLASS clipping DURATION ATTENDANCE SUBJECT DAY DATE2UKM 2.20 pm- 3.20 pm 60 M32/32 ENGLISH THURSDAY 5/4/2018LESSON LESSON 23 LANGUAGE AWARENESS NON-TEXTBOOK BASED LESSONMAIN SKILL(S) FOCUS SPEAKING , READING WRITINGTHEME PEOPLE AND CULTURE field LIVE WELL(HEB AT)LANGUAGE FOCUS Vocabulary related to the topic the health.CONTENT STANDARDMain Skill written material 4.1Communicate distinctly through print and digital media on familiar topics.Complementary Skill READING 3.1Understand a variety of texts by using a range of appropriate reading strategies to construct meaning.LEARNING STANDARD Main Skill Writing4.1.5Connect sentences into two coherent paragraphs or more using basic coordinating conjunctions and pronounsComplementary Skill READING 3.1.1Use with some support familiar print and digital resources to check meaning.LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of the lesson, students should be able to frame a balance meal.Identify healthy and unhealthy foods in each of the food groups.SUCCESS CRITERIA At the end of the lesson, students will be able to Create a balanced meal and explain about the meal with immaculate pronunciation based on the given reading text.REFERENCES Access to bilingual dictionaries.CROSS CURRICULAR grammatical constituent Technology EducationHOTS Analyzing and Applying MORAL VALUES GratitudeI-THINK Double Bubble Map PAK-21 Round table activity.ACTIVITIESPRE- LESSON LESSON DEVELOPMENT POST- LESSONGreet the students and make the topic fit Meal for the students.Teacher asks the students at random what do they really understand with the phrase Balanced diet Students will provide the examples of healthy and Unhealthy food. Students will get into group of 5.Students are depute to create their own balanced meal.They should create a menu card based on the balanced meal that they are going to create. In groups, students are required to explain about the meal that they have created with accurate pronunciation.ASSESSMENT WorksheetsREFLECTIONSCLASS 2UKM 32/32 students able to answer random questions given by their respective teacher. The students able to provide a list of healthy and unhealthy food based on the alphabet shown by their teacher on the whiteboard. Apart from that, students able to identify and classify the healthy and unhealthy food shown by the teacher through random pictures. Students able to create a menu card based on the balanced meal for obesity patients via group work. Students able to present their work within the given time frame and only used English fully throughout the entire lesson.REFERENCESBrown, H. D. (2001). Teaching by Principles An synergetic Approach to Language Pedagogy (2nd Ed.). New York Longman.Larsen-Freeman, D. (2000). Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching (2nd Ed.).Oxford Oxford University Press. Parrish, B. (2004). Teaching Adult ESL A Practical Introduction. 3L Journal of Language Teaching 3(103-109). Oxford Oxford University Press. Mustapha, S. T. Yahaya, R. A. (2013).Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Malaysian Context Its instruction execution in Selected Community Colleges. Social and Behavioral Sciences 90(788-794). Malaysia Universiti Teknologi MARA.