Feedback 5

Feedback on Fatih Sivridağ’s First Official Presentation

At the beginning of the lesson, Fatih introduced the topic to his students by asking them some questions about camping and whether they had experienced it before or not. I think that his choice for the topic was good and he made a good opening for the lesson. Some students raised their hands to answer his questions. However, it would have been better if he had used a concept map to activate the students’ vocabulary knowledge about this topic. He could have also asked some further questions to the students who said that they had experienced camping.

In the following stage, the students were required to read a passage about clouds. In my opinion, it would have been good to give the students a task to do while reading the passage or the teacher could have said what they were going to do once the passage was finished. In this way, he could have made the students read the text with an aim in their minds and this –in my opinion- is more motivating and meaningful for the students. However, most of the students participated in the question- answer part after the reading text in Fatih’s lesson and this issue did not come out as a problem.

Although this was not the case for the following parts, I felt that he did not move around the classroom especially at the beginning. This might be due to the stress of starting a new lesson and being filmed. However, it is essential for us to be close to all of our students from time to time. Also, I found some of his feedback at the beginning a little bit too difficult for the students’ age and level. As far as I could see from the video, some of the students looked perplexed. However, they were able to find their way around both with their peers’ and their teacher’s help. He was ready for help when the students were confused and when they did not know what to do. This is one of the things that make this lesson successful.

Overall, I think that this was a good lesson but there are some points that can be improved. I hope that this feedback will be useful in that sense.