Reflection

On Written Plan
Overall, the peers say it is a complete lesson plan; however, there are several mistakes I should improve. First, the explanation of the objectives part is wrong.
“Objective” means what you want students to gain from the lesson. “Goal” means that the teacher identifies an overall purpose that he or she will attempt to accomplish by the end of the class. Second, it’s hard to know who my target students are. Actually, my target students are college students
On Facial Expression & Body Language
It’s happy to hear peers comment me as an enthusiastic and charming teacher. I look confident in teaching the lesson.
On Speech Quality
Peers comment that the speech is clear and fluent. In my own reflection, I should practice to make my speech more fluent.
On Content Knowledge
Peers comment that it is a very good strategy to use 8 processes for teaching listening and that I explain listening strategy clearly and with details. Besides, the teacher comments that it is good to apply what you learn in teaching listening strategies and also raises a question: Does process 1—turn the speech into the “image” work in this case? I ignore that I should tell the class this process doesn’t work for this activity because it is already images.
On Teaching Material and Activities
Peers comment that it’s useful to develop strategies by a video clip and that playing “Sex, and the city” as the practice is quite interesting and attracting. It’s the well-planned activity and it is good for learners to listen without subtitles and with subtitles in the second time. Besides, it’s good to give students’ listening homework for evaluation. There is one aspect that I should improve: the questions on the exercise papers. One peer comments that questions are a bit hard for non-native speakers but it’s a good challenge. When I made questions for the activity, I have considered this problem. I put two questions about the general gist. I was afraid these questions a little hard for students, especially for ones that don’t see “Sex, and the city” before. However, I think that it will make students improve by giving some challenge in questions so that’s why I don’t delete them. Maybe I can still put more challenging questions in but it should be moderate; otherwise, students will feel frustrated.