Nguyen Tran Dang Khoa

Observation Report
WEEK 2

 Ms. Dao Pham, ICE1 (8/7/2019)

 Strengths observed
- Teacher acted as a facilitator, not as a controller.
- Promoting quantity, not quality; in other words, teacher encouraged students to
speak freely, without their fear of incorrect pronunciation or local accents.
- Teacher provided lots of interesting activities (guessing game, role-playing, opinion
sharing…), which helped attract and maintain students’ attention.
- Well-prepared materials and aids.
  Suggestion for improvement
- The PowerPoint slideshow had some unnecessarily noisy and distracting sound,
which may disturb students’ attention for the lesson.
- One weakness of facilitator is that teacher cannot put enough attention into
passive students, and those students may be completely ignored throughout the
activity. Therefore, it is sometime better to choose pair work rather than group work
or whole-class work.
- Some words were misspelled (catologue catalogue).

 Ms. Thao Nguyen, IELTS P (11/7/2019)

 Strengths observed
* This is a review session so teacher spent most of the time correct her students’
homework; nevertheless, there were still some strengths which were observed.
- After two observations of the same class, it is clear that teacher always manages to
evaluate students’ performance constantly with various methods.
- Teacher usually encouraged students to take note new vocabulary, which is crucial
in the memorizing process.
- As mentioned last time, Ms. Thao’s connection with her students is so amazing that
they even bought her a cup of bubble tea “because we love you”, said one of the
student.

 Suggestion for improvement

- No major problem spotted.
 Ms. Chau Nguyen, TOEIC 2 (13/7/2019)
 Strengths observed
- Teacher grouped vocabulary into different field, in which words are related to each
other.
- Teacher always aimed to elicit answers from students rather than directly show
them the correct responses.
- Teacher manually checked students’ homework, which may stimulate them to do
their homework more regularly.
- Good use of Kahoot which is not only a way to motivate students but also a chance
to quick-check their knowledge.

 Suggestion for improvement

- Teacher should not emphasize student’s fault too intense unnecessarily, instead
we can penalize them (force them to sing) to warn them not to repeat their faults.