Feedback
I received these feedbacks during my practicum II: observation at the secondary level and they were noted in my practicum portfolio. My associate teacher was Pierre Leroux, a secondary 3 English and resource teacher.
"The first time I taught in front of the class, Pierre told me that I spoke to loudly and that is why I had trouble keeping the students’ volume low. I understand that really well and, the next time, I was really careful with that and it had an impact on the level of noise of the students. Also, after my following experiences in front of the class, he said that it was important to vary the activities during one class. Even if our whole LES was about teaching the Future tense, it was important to put an “activités tampons” at the end of the class so if students were finished with the task, they could do something else without disturbing the other. Another important thing was to speak slower because he noticed that sometimes the students were not answering to my questions because they did not understand it.
Another aspect that he talked about was the preparation. At some point, I was confused in putting a part of a sentence in the verb section or the object section and he said that the most important thing is that if you look confident, the students will follow you but if I seemed to be hesitating, they will jump on the occasion to test me.
Beside, he said that I had done a great job, that I was dynamic in front of the class and that I had a good contact with the students."
This last comment was also mentionned to me when I did sub-teacing at the elementary level as well as in my current job working with pre-schoolers in a private English center.
"The first time I taught in front of the class, Pierre told me that I spoke to loudly and that is why I had trouble keeping the students’ volume low. I understand that really well and, the next time, I was really careful with that and it had an impact on the level of noise of the students. Also, after my following experiences in front of the class, he said that it was important to vary the activities during one class. Even if our whole LES was about teaching the Future tense, it was important to put an “activités tampons” at the end of the class so if students were finished with the task, they could do something else without disturbing the other. Another important thing was to speak slower because he noticed that sometimes the students were not answering to my questions because they did not understand it.
Another aspect that he talked about was the preparation. At some point, I was confused in putting a part of a sentence in the verb section or the object section and he said that the most important thing is that if you look confident, the students will follow you but if I seemed to be hesitating, they will jump on the occasion to test me.
Beside, he said that I had done a great job, that I was dynamic in front of the class and that I had a good contact with the students."
This last comment was also mentionned to me when I did sub-teacing at the elementary level as well as in my current job working with pre-schoolers in a private English center.