English lesson, Turkish project

Planning stage

Project/Activity: English lesson, Turkish project (C/A)

Date: 19^th March 2011

Goals: To conduct a lesson about Russian and English cultures, comparing both with each other using such aspects as traditions, tastes, fashion, cultures, languages, behaviors and etc. To collect enough material for later analysis.

Personal Challenge: To conduct a lesson, acting as a teacher, to make a free chat with pupils, to be on a wave with them.

Learning Outcomes: Material for analysis, feedback (reflection), new personal skills, group work.

1. Is this activity a new role for me? Yes, I will be acting as a teacher, and a lesson will be in a form of dialog.
2. Is it a real task that I am going to undertake? Yes, there is a determined aim, which should be reached and a plan, which we should follow.
3. Does it have real consequences for other people and for me? There will be no consequences as such, cause it is a research project.
4. What do I hope to learn from getting involved? Breadth of vision and depth of thought today's children.
5. How can this activity benefit other people? It is a research project.
6. What can I reflect on during this activity? I want to compare us and today's children in this age.

Reflection

1. What did I/we do and where did I/we do it? We conducted an English lesson in the school №50.
2. What did I/we hope to learn? Breadth of vision and depth of thought today's children.
3.  How successful have I/we been? I think we were quite successful, cause lesson with our group of children was very interesting and active. I felt myself comfortable.
4. What difficulties were encountered and how did I/we overcome them? Not all children were interested in discussions and games, so we should tried to find a way to involve them too.
5. What did I learn about myself? What did I learn about other people? I work in a group especially with children well, actually work in “Love’s Bridge” help me, I think.
6. What abilities, attitudes and values have I developed? Value of learning English.
7. Did anyone help me? Whom have I interacted with? We were working in a little group of my classmates.
8. How did this activity benefit other people or institutions? It was the research project, but probably somebody got interested into a deeply studying of English language.
9. What would I change if I were to do this again? There were some problems in organization.
10. How can I apply what I have learned to other situations? Good organization is a base of success.