Goals and Objectives for the Week

Monday 18th September - Friday 24th September

My goals and objectives for this week are as follows:

1. Become more aware of how I use the IRF structure. I don't think I’m confident enough to entirely abandon triadic dialogue. Instead, I want to exploit its inherent potential. So I will focus on using the 'F' turn in my classes to encourage elaboration.

2. Become more aware of how much teacher talk I use in each class. I think I am talking too much and the students are talking too little. Why is this? This week I’m going to pay attention to when and how I use teacher talk. Also, from showing my video to Agnes and Tom during Saturday’s discussion I don’t think I’m making the best use of my energy in class. I need to make it work for me.

3. Become more aware of my co-teachers role in my classes. I want to observe just what they do and how involved they are. Ultimately I want to think of better ways to work with them in the classroom. Linked to this – I want to pay attention to how much Korean is spoken in my class and think of ways to reduce it.

4. I want to try a little thing from Saturday’s class: pair-work before asking students questions.

5. I want to pay extra attention to the especially shy students in my class this week and the students who are outcasts.

6. Record some classes.

7. Re-introduce choral repetition.

8. More structured lesson plans for Grade 3.

I will try and post blogs about how it is all going during the week.