TS, 2009-2010

Department of Language Teaching Methodology

Observation and Analytic Protocol

Number:7

Trainee teacher: Tanja Ivanovska 860182

Observation Date: 26 October 2009
Time: Start: 14:20 End: 15:00
School: 138 SOU Professor Vasil Zlatarski
Mentor Teacher: Svetlana Petkova
Section A: Basic descriptive information <include details about teacher, grade level, details about
students>
This is 4th grade, and its their second class today. They will continue with
their work from previous class. Their topic from the last class was grammatical
category Noun and how they can make plurals.
For this class the teacher use tape recorder and students are ready to work
and want to improve them in front of us. Students are concentrated and prepared for the
lesson. They are raising their hands when teacher ask some question.
For today topic is It is the 12th of August
Section B: Teaching and learning procedures
Procedure (contents and participation
structure, instructional time, etc.)
Opening
Teacher asks the students to open their books
and read the given text to them and then the
same text they will listen on tape. She also
explain that today will learn use and meaning
of the sign s.
Teaching and learning activities
On this class they will use tape recorder, they
are listening and answering questions; some
of the students is writing the answers on the
board.
They are discussing the meaning of the
apostrophe s, the teacher explains what this
sign mean.
Teacher also explain about pronunciation of
the August .
Closing
The end of the class teacher gives homework
to the students and asks if there is something
unclear things for todays topic.

Analysis, Evaluation, Recommendation

I think that students are more active and

motivated if teacher gives them exercises
from the beginning of the class.

My opinion is that when the students answer

the question about some text that improves
pronunciation as well as helps students learn
new words and I think that by giving
synonyms in Bulgarian they easily will
remember every single world. Also teacher is
correcting them if they have some mistakes.

Teacher creates a relaxed atmosphere, by

doesnt telling the students that they have to
learn all the things they have studied in class.

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Section C: Overall ratings of the lesson <include summaries of the objectives and contents of the
lesson>
Teacher is using tape recorder for this class; students are listening the text they have studied the
previous lesson and then teacher is asking questing about the text and the students is answering and
discus about the text. Teacher is asking if there are some unclear things. Students are translating the
text into Bulgarian.
They are discussing the meaning of the apostrophe -s, the teacher explains what this sign mean.
Teacher also explains about pronunciation of the August.
Some of students get some extra homework because they were not enough active in the class.
.
Section D: Overall assessment of the quality of the lesson <is this a good lesson, why?>
I believe that this lesson can be said to be very good; most of students accomplish many tasks,
and understand about grammatical category Noun and how they can make plurals. .
Section E: Recommendation <how can the efficacy of the lesson be improved?>
This lesson will help the students to know more about use of the grammatical category; this is
an important topic and its a future step in their knowledge of the target language.
Mrs. Petkova is a very experienced teacher, her lessons are very organized and I
learn lots of new things and teaching techniques that I can use in my practice
with my classes.