Class Report Revised
Class Report Revised
Class Reports
- Instituto Estadual de Educação Paulo da Gama
- Wizard Idiomas
Porto Alegre
2010
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Summary
Presentation .......................................................................................................................................... 3
Interviews.............................................................................................................................................. 6
Conclusion .......................................................................................................................................... 14
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Presentation
The process of observation of English classes in high school shows the need for
practical experience to better understand the application of the content studied in class.
This report aims to provide the contact with reality in high school of information
and identification of problem situations during the process of teaching and learning, as
envisaged in the plan of the discipline.
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Characterization of the Schools
The Instituto Estadual de Educação Paulo da Gama was founded in 1955. The
school had the best rate notes in 2006 and is among the top seven public education
institutions in Brazil. The school runs from kindergarten to high school. There is still a
group in the normal course, the Magisterium.
The courtyard has three sports facilities in a large space. The school has four
buildings where classrooms were divided according to stage of education (kindergarten,
elementary and high school). The rooms are spacious and well ventilated; tables and
chairs are not conserved. It has cafeteria. It has an auditorium for lectures and meetings
for teachers and students. The library has very few books. It has a room with four
computers for internet access, but only one is working, for the use only student
members of the library, where students are granted access to social networks. This still
causes controversy among parents and teachers. The school also has spaces where tasks
are performed in physical education, especially on rainy days.
Laboratories and Computer Sciences are not operating because of the lack of
material.
The room of the department, the principal office and teachers’ room are in
separate places.
Because of interruptions of the night shift, this year has only one class of high
school at this time. Security has two guards who are awake during the day and another
guard and a resident of the school that do the night security. The school has two entries,
but the leaders decided that the institution would open only one day and another
overnight.The school consists of over a thousand students, most low-income families
living in neighborhoods adjacent to the institution.
The classes were not observed on the street mentioned above, because this
school has a project for students of Colégio Santa Ines, Petrópolis District, Porto
Alegre, where only students from the school can participate.
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Contextualization of the observations at Instituto Estadual de
Educação Paulo da Gama
The impoverishment of the library is a remarkable factor for both teachers, who
need the books for a better development of their classes, and for students who need
these readings. Nevertheless, space is a favorite among most students interviewed,
perhaps because it contains computers with internet access.
Despite the income in some periods of the school year no being the best, there is
a strong relationship between teacher and student. Just as there is a great interaction
among teacher / school, student / student, teacher / teacher.
Parents also are present in many moments. There are complaints from of them
when the student arrives home without writing activities in the notebook.
The school has two years with the Youth of the Future Project by Unibanco
Institute. This project contributed greatly to the development of activities for high
school students. Teachers had several features to enhance their lessons: projector,
internet, tours and travel etc.
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Interviews
For the interview, a tape recorder was used so that the responses were well
reported.
Teacher:
The teacher Marcelo Mansilha, from Instituto Paulo da Gama, does not want to
be interviewed initially, but later he accepted. However, he clarified that he would not
talk too much.
According to the teacher, high school students have more advantages for
participating in the project bank. This project aims to improve the way students receive
information and prevent truancy. With the project teachers receive guidance by the
coordinators and they hold meetings for them interdisciplinary lessons. He said the
school has several important features that facilitate learning. However, few students
finish high school.
Students:
Most students say they do not think of staying in school, they prefer to make a
supplementary. Students have between 17 and 24 years old. They consider the school an
organized place and hard to study.
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Classroom Reports
Institution: Instituto Estadual de Educação Paulo da Gama
Class: First and Second Date: September 22th Shift: Afternoon
Teacher: Marcelo Mansilha Level: 2nd High School
2 2.05 p.m. 2.40 p.m. Verb Tenses The teacher helped students
Practice to perform tasks. He gave
clearer explanations about
the exercises.
Some students ask questions
about what was given.
The teacher takes notes on
the board regarding Verb
Tenses: simple past, present
continuous and present
perfect.
3 2.40 p.m. 2.50 p.m. Collecting the Some students deliver the
tasks activity, even without
finishing it.
4 2.50 p.m. 3.08 p.m Closing The teacher asks students
what music they want to
work in the following class.
There are varied tastes.
Some mentioned Justin
Bieber, other Lady Gaga,
U2, Coldplay, Amy
Winehouse, Michael
Jackson
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Observations:
Although the class had 19 students, there was much talk and dispersion, which
seemed to be beyond the control of the teacher.
The teacher talks in Portuguese only because of the difficulty that students have
and the rejection of the class.
Two students asked the teacher what the word "bitch" and the conversation
continues with other words: cock (referring to the penis), "she dog" (in the
pejorative sense to woman-dog)
Main Goal: Developing the skill of listening comprehension in English from the
activities of understanding of music Bad Romance by Lady Gaga.
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man wearing a straitjacket.
The teacher write on the board:
1. Good Thing; 2. Bad Thing
Students associated the
pictures with the two topics.
During the combination of
pictures and topics, the teacher
asks some questions in
Portuguese to specific students:
a) Do you consider peace a
good thing? Why?; b) Why is a
psycho a bad thing?; c) Would
you have a love affair with a
criminal?; d) It is important to
be healthy?; e) What would
you do if you knew someone
you love has contracted a
disease?; f) Is it important to
be beautiful to find a boyfriend
or girlfriend?
Students are very participatory
in this first part of the lesson,
however, just a little
disturbing.
The teacher presents the words
that give meaning to the
pictures of the slide and write
them on the board (ugly,
beautiful, disease, healthy,
criminal, peace, psycho).
The teacher shows the video
2 2.30 p.m. 3.00 p.m. Activity 1 of the song Bad Romance.
Listening After, the teacher asks a few
questions in Portuguese for
students and then write
them on the board in
English. For example,
“What type of romance does
she want?”, “What are the
characteristics does the
person she wants for a
romance have?”.
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3 The teacher tells students
3.00 p.m. 3.05 p.m. Closing that they will continue with
the content the following
class.
Observations:
In the beginning some students were interested in the subject, but over time they
were disturbing the class making it a joke that had to be interrupted by the
teacher.
Main Goal: Discuss the theme of "relationships today" analyzing the lyrics
Bad Romance, Lady Gaga.
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2 2.00 p.m. 2.30 p.m. Grammar – The teacher gives a brief
Question explanation of the use of
words and question words and
auxiliary verb
auxiliary verbs using the
questions that were written
on the board regarding
music.
Observations:
The teacher makes several interactions with the class to provide a good
discussion of issues.
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Classroom Reports
Institution: Wizard Idiomas
Date: October 6th – October 27th Shift: Afternoon
Teacher: Rafael Santos Pinto Level: Basic 2
2 4.30 p.m. 5.30 p.m. Speaking Using the book, the teacher
reviewed the contents of the
previous lecture and guided
the students for them to
create a short dialogue in
which each chose a different
question to another
classmate.
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With the help of the book,
4 4.30 p.m. 5.30 p.m. Speaking students create sentences
Reading and and then asked them to
Comprehension classmates what was
Listening
learned in the previous
class: Reported Speech.
The teacher distributes a
sheet with the lyrics of the
song Message in a Bottle
by The Police.
First, students read then
identify unknown words
and then they interpret it.
Finally, they hear the song
and they follow it with the
lyrics.
Observations:
No teacher has agreed to be interviewed. Only the main teacher accepted to talk
about classes and he even suggested that I attended if I wished.
The class consisted of six students, but with the exception of the 3rd class, there
were always four students.
There is conversation in every class. The classes are organized as follows: Week
1, grammar and Week 2, only conversation.
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Conclusion
It was noted that there is the possibility of unite theory to practice. Surely it must
be very carefully prepared. The Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais are very important to
develop an effective pedagogical practice.
During the observations differences between the schools observed were noticed.
From structure to methodology.
In the first school several tools were used to facilitate the understanding of
students, always bringing the classroom to their reality. According to Referencial
Curricular “Diante de qualquer texto oral ou escrito ou de qualquer situação, as pessoas
tentam fazer relações com o que já conhecem para assim atribuir sentido ao que estão
lendo, ouvindo, vivendo. Isso significa que a compreensão é uma construção a partir de
um ponto de vista e com determinado objetivo, que pode (ou não) coincidir com o
propósito original do texto [...]”,ie, if the teacher used a material like Lady Gaga was
because he realized the world of his students what they were experiencing.
“[...] imitar um cantor preferido, para que a música que se está cantando seja reconhecida como
tal, pode ser uma porta de entrada para fazer parte de um determinado grupo e, nesse sentido, pode se
tornar relevante para a inserção desejada.” (Referencial Curricular, p.146)
In the second school, the tools were limited because the goal is different. In this
school structure, while in the first school gives greater attention to the grammar-oriented
college entrance examination.
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