Task 2: What Materials do I Need? (Teaching Practice year2 semester1)

Class: 1\C  Number of learners: 1C:24 \ 1D: 20  Age of learners: 6 to 7  Teacher observed: Miss Niamh  Length of lesson: 45 

Activity	Resources	Where from?	Presentation	Interaction	Why/Notes
Learning about the time.	clock	From the school	The teacher demonstrate how the clock work, and the time that the students wake up and go to sleep.	After the students watch the teacher they had their own clock’s and they begin to use them.	It was a useful activity for them.
Learning about the heavy things.	scales	From the school	The teacher showed the student how could they use the scale.	The students went to their tables and used the scales as group	It was a fun activity for the students
Learning about the body part	Papares, eyes, glue, pen	The teacher made them	She draw a monster then used the materials to put an eye and hair.	Students did the same as the teacher.	It was great for the students to learn while having fun
Learning about new vocabulary in the story.	magnifying glass	The teacher made it.	She used the  magnifying glass to search the new words that were written on the whiteboard.	Students did the same.

Think about each activity now and decide whether it achieved its purpose. How appropriate were the resources used? If you were to teach this, lesson again, what different resources might you use and why? The class was to teach students about the time, the teacher gave each student a clock to change the time by their self’s. Students used the clocks in an appropriate way as they follow the teacher direction. I think I would use the same activity if I teach this subject, it was simple for the students to do also fun.

How did the teacher organize and distribute the materials and what instructions did she give? She gave every student a clock. Then she demonstrates what should they do, she gave an instruction like ‘the time is 5:00’ then they should put their clock on 5:00 clock.

Were any resources used for both lessons? Yes, first they create their own clock for English lesson after they sing the time song. Then the teacher introduces the topic in Math class as she gave the clock from the school.

What resources seemed to be used for different interaction patterns? What does this tell you? Teaching time. It tells me that we should link the subject that the students learn through their class‘s, and that will help them to understand more.

Resources can take a long time to make. What could you do to build resources over time for topic work? Who could assist with resource making? Why? I could use the resource from the last year. I can let the students do the activity that takes a lot of time making.