2025 Open Classroom by Julia Ho by

Example

nhps_2023 — 2025-05-06 07:17:37 UTC

1) Name of Observer:

2) Takeaway(s) / Suggestion(s) / Question(s):

You may use the 3-2-1 frame to give your reflection or frame your inputs on the OC lesson.

EXAMPLE in CHINESE

nhps_2023 — 2025-05-06 07:17:37 UTC

今天的课程非常有趣，学生们积极参与讨论，学习气氛十分活跃。通过小组活动，他们能够更好地理解课程内容。尽管有些学生在集中注意力方面有些困难，但总体上课程目标达成。下次可以增加更多互动环节，帮助学生更深入思考

EXAMPLE

nhps_2023 — 2025-05-06 07:17:37 UTC

3 things I learned

学生们在讨论中积极参与，学习气氛非常活跃。
小组活动有效帮助学生理解课程内容。
尽管有些学生在集中注意力方面有困难，但整体目标已达成。

2 things I found interesting

学生们的参与度非常高，讨论热烈。
小组活动的设计使学生能够更好地掌握知识点。

1 thing I will do differently next time
为了提高学生的专注度，下次将增加更多互动环节，激发他们更深入的思考。

Example

nhps_2023 — 2025-05-06 07:17:37 UTC

Thank you for the courage to open the classroom and to try out something with the class. It was a great opportunity for all of us to find out if it can work and how it can work better.

Thank you Liping for sharing your lesson. Enjoyed the conversations with the students.

nhps_2023 — 2025-05-06 07:17:37 UTC

ho_julia — 2025-05-08 06:58:50 UTC

ho_julia — 2025-05-08 07:01:11 UTC

The activities planned for the students were well thought through and the students were engaged, especially by the competitive element of seeing which group could first complete the drawing.

2025-05-10 08:35:18 UTC

Some suggestions 1) It would be difficult for the teacher alone to "validate" the individual group responses. Perhaps it could be just one drawing to be completed, contributed by the various groups (so there is also collaboration as a class besides collaboration within the group). 2) Quite a "waste" that the various group responses were not shared with the rest of the class as it could potentially be a very strong learning opportunity.

2025-05-10 08:35:40 UTC

3) As the model by the teacher on the board was noun-verb-description, and the tr did not allow use of her name or the pronoun, then some groups were starting their sentences with determiners which goes counter to the suggested sentence structure. On the whole, it was an engaging lesson!

2025-05-10 08:35:50 UTC

Reflection

ho_julia — 2025-05-20 06:08:35 UTC

The activities had been carried out as planned. Overall, I am quite pleased with the lesson development. I had introduced new oral genres and leveraged on the written texts to bring in the concept of subject-verb agreement. I had asked open and closed-ended questions to elicit knowledge about the concepts and stimulate higher-order thinking. I will further ascertain their grasp of the concepts from their work shown in the worksheets later. The students were not as forthcoming as usual. Perhaps, they were conscious of having visitors around. Another plausible reason could be that the questions needed to be unpacked further and more wait time to be given. Be that as it may, various students had the opportunity of providing ideas to move the class discussion forward. The group activity was largely successful. One particular group had some difficulty constructing sentences within the allotted time. This group has three high-support students among them, which may have accounted for their lack of productivity.