UNIVERSITY OF SALVADOR
WESTERN MULTIDISCIPLINARY CAMPUS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
Student’s name: Elizabeth del Carmen Calderón Hernández Subject: Didactics of the English
Language I
Teacher’s name: Lic. Edgar Perez
Content: Class Observation
1-The Spanish teacher Mercy , as she is known in the kindergarten “María Salazar Viuda de Magaña” where she has been teaching for a long time, (hereafter “T”), begins the 45- minute class hour on this Monday evening through giving a warm welcome to the students (hereafter “Ss”) and commenting about weekend’s activities.
2-While she is asking them, she organizes Ss in small groups.
3-She then asks Ss to take their textbooks of geography out, and motivates them to think about the Salvadoran’s volcanoes.
4-S volunteer names some of the most important and known volcanoes in El Salvador such as Illamatepec, Chaparrastique and the Izalco volcano.
5-Then the T asks them to go to the page 21 and tells them- “Over here we have all the volcanoes that exist in our country and below you have the different colors which represent each volcano, so I will give some color papers for you to cut and stick them on each volcano.”
6-Given them a complete and clear instruction about what Ss are going to do, the T designs two Ss to give the color papers out and two Ss more to give scissors out to the class.
8-Next, the T now says, “I want you to look at the whiteboard and observe this example. When you finish the activity, please bring it to me for I want to check it.”
9-After a good and enough time doing the activity, the Ss bring it to the T. After that, each S takes a seat and pays attention to the T. Meanwhile, a S rises her hand and asks -“teacher, why is that volcano higher?” Well, this volcano is higher than any other because it has the higher length above the level of the sea.”
10-Now,” I want you to save your textbooks and please take your notebooks out,” says the T. In this moment the T is preparing some illustrations in which she has drawing some syllables like La-Le-Li-Lo-Lu and Pa-Pe-Pi-Po-Pu.
11-Then the T makes a dictation by repeating and looking the syllables.
12-As time runs out and Ss prepare their things to leave, the T tells them to write the exercises of the next lesson as homework before the next class (on Friday evening).