Thursday, November 12, 2009

Final Thoughts of Inquiry Plan

The teacher's lesson plan for that day was role play activity. Two students work as partners to pretend to visit each other by using conversations learned. I video taped two classes due to the time conflict. I use 7th graders as a example of before PD and use 8th grades as after my PD.
Although both class were very disruptive, audiences still can tell the effective of the activity I intruduced from the engagement of the students. I believe actully it will be the best way to show how fun activities can help students stay on task more and learn more.

Obstacle of Inquiry Plan

Wow, I was so shocked when I walked into the teacher's classroom. The students are talking loud. They are not pay attention to the teacher at all. A few students acknowledge my existence, said "Hello" in Chinese to me. I can tell the teacher was working very hard. I think she needs more help from the aspect of classroom management than activities. I really need to think about how to make sure the inquiry plan go through.