Yesterday I have taken my first official feedback from my boss about the lesson I prepared and taught in the ECA Level 2 class. I am writing today to highlight the feelings associated with this experience. Further, stress the advantages of a building feedback.
In the teacher training program, I get used for the presence of our teachers taking notes about our performance inside the class, our lesson plan, style of teaching and everything related to the lesson, starting from the lesson's objective and ending with the freer activities for producing the targeted Language. Still, it was totally different experience when observed officially in a real classroom. I worried a little bit, although I planned my lesson very well, wrote down a lesson plan and used variety of sources and materials to support my lesson. I was a bit tension at the beginning of the class and I believe it was obvious for some.
By the way, getting feedback from my friends and teachers was of the best parts in the training program. I believe I got the ability to see and analyse my lesson and think how to make it better, however, feedback has given me a wider vision, it gave me the opportunity to see from different perspectives and even notice things I have not seen. Feedback grabbed my attention to details of the details and reinforced my feelings and intuition about the elements in my lesson, and it helped me look deeper.
Although, I have written down my own analysis about my first lesson with the ECA Level 2 class and to what extent I have followed this lesson plan. Feedback came to enlighten me about new things that I couldn't see, or was not sure if it happened, caused a problem or not?
I have read once that people avoid things that cause them pain or embrace them and welcome any element of joy. The same with the positive feedback, it works on positivity, your points of strengths, and grab your attention to the areas that need development to make you stronger. That what happened with me, I got a very positive feedback, a feedback that I will always welcome. A feedback that praises and shows you nicely the way to improve and be much better.
My first official feedback gave me confidence I am on the right track, and that I can be better. It made me see another slips I didn't notice in my analysis. First it assured my sense about the tension at the beginning of this class, I wasn't sure if anybody noticed this, but they did. This affects the stage of ice breaking, I should have given much time to break the ice between the students and me. Further, The target language was focusing on (عايز/عايزة) + verb for future indications. I was shifting between this and another rule of the future form. For example, instead of saying (عايز تعمل إيه في الأجازة؟) I was saying (هاتعمل إيه في الأجازة؟) this may confused them because they didn't take verbs in the future form yet. In other words, I have to stick to the target language. I didn't notice that I used (عايز) only with the pronoun (I)(أنا), I should have highlighted the usage of (عايزة) as well with the pronoun (I) (أنا). It draws my attention as well to the importance of a handout. I did it already and handed them a written script of the story built on the board using the pictures, but I was not sure if this is necessary for each class, now I know it is very important. I knew already that my hand writing on the board needs more practice, but I didn't know that I need to work as well on using color codes professionally.
At the end, I can say I am happy and very satisfied with this feedback, it is a feedback that builds and adds to the ones sense. Now I am aware where to focus on and looking forward starting planing for this week's lesson and getting my second feedback. In other words, I feel grateful and blessed to find myself in this healthy environment.
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