Observation and discussion

Now I show you the real situation related with the topic “Classroom Interaction”.

Observe one or two lessons, and note down the types of interaction you saw, using your own list or that shown in Box 16. 1. After the observation, discuss or reflect on the following questions:

 

l. Was there one particular type of interaction that seemed to predominate?

Teacher talk – Individual work

Because the teacher explain, present the new topic and then she gives a task for students and they work individually.

  II. Did teacher activity predominate? Or student activity? 

      Or was the Interaction more or less balanced?

Sometimes the interaction is more or less balanced between teacher and students, but most of the time the teacher has predominate activity. Because she talks, explain the new content and give a task for students. Sometimes, only explain the material or topic, but the students don’t interact with their own knowledge. 

 

III. How appropriate did you think the chosen interaction patterns were for the teaching objectives in the different activities? 

For the teaching objectives in the different activities, I think the interaction patterns used are not very appropriate; maybe teacher could include group work or collaboration because in the class there are students with more skills that could help others in group tasks.

  

Well, you can see that the topic is very important for teachers and students. Because with different types of interaction we can motivate to students and realise a very interesting class. Is important the interaction with students, because they are the main actors in the process (learning process).

See you in the next post... ;)