EIGHT TASK

DIRECTIONS: Here you are some general guidelines for writing the reflective report through which you are expected to analyze a sample video-taped teaching performance:

● Initially, plan an English lesson and teach it in your usual manner

● Videotape your lesson

● Watch the video and answer the following questions: Do you feel your students achieved the aims of the lesson? How did they behave and respond to the lesson? What was the nature of the activities, and how do you think those activities went during classroom instruction? How did you try to maintain students’ attention, and increase their interest and communication? How differently would you teach this lesson if you taught it again? Did you have any difficulties within this lesson? If the initial lesson plan did not work, how would you explain what caused the lesson to go astray?

● Ask one of your colleagues to watch your videotaped lesson and give you feedback about the weaknesses and strengths he or she could identify as well as some suggestions to improve your teaching.

● Based on your own reflections and your colleague ́s feedback, prepare and submit a report with substantial evidence of your reflection-on-action and reflection-in-action performance. In this report you are also expected to reflect on how useful it is to watch yourself teaching.

● This reflective report is expected to have a length of 1500 words, and it should be framed into an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. The introduction is to contain a hook and thesis statement. The body can be concerned with either answering the previously posed questions or focusing on some classroom aspects you would like to highlight. In the conclusion section, you are to sum up the main points made throughout. Include some bibliographical references which may help you elaborate on your self- reflections. As appendixes do not fail to attach the video-recorded lesson and the lesson plan.