Overcoming Teaching Challenges: How to Engage Schoolchildren More Effectively by Elyanora Menglieva

I am Sevinch Tojiboyeva

elyamenglieva — 2025-03-24 23:51:52 UTC

Institution: Namangan State Institute of Foreign Languages
Group: MBX-BU-22

Year: 3

My teaching context

elyamenglieva — 2025-03-24 23:52:53 UTC

Teaching place: 8th school which is situated in Pop District, Namangan Region, Uzbekistan
Grades: 1-4-classes
Number of students:12

How can I teach schoolchildren more effectively?

elyamenglieva — 2025-03-24 23:53:25 UTC

I chose this topic to assess students' lesson outcomes and growth levels, helping them achieve their goals more quickly and effectively in learning and discovering a new language.

Exploratory action research questions

elyamenglieva — 2025-03-24 23:54:51 UTC

Why do I think that I don't work with schoolchildren very effectively? What are the main problems for me?
Why do students come rushing out the door to English class or don't do their homework?😅
What do others think about effective ways of working with school children?
How effective are my new strategies to teach schoolchildren?
How effective are my teaching methods?

DATA COLLECTION TOOLS

elyamenglieva — 2025-03-24 23:55:46 UTC

Own reflections
Notes from informal conversations/discussions with colleagues
Picture of my class
Other people's written ideas on the topic
Survey

elyamenglieva — 2025-03-25 00:04:38 UTC

I think explanatory action research is the basis for teachers. It can be said to be a tool that teachers use to improve their situation.
Research has become the foundation for me to use to build an imaginary solid house. Because people live inside the house, if it is not strong, one day it will turn into a tragedy. So is research, I think. A foundation laid for the future. And I think it's also very useful for students. Through this, we can bring color into our life.
I also had difficulties doing research. At first, I didn't understand and I thought it was a useless thing. Also, I had trouble with my research questions and tools because it was not easy, but I was mistaken. It was very interesting and useful, especially for teachers.

My reflective entry

elyamenglieva — 2025-03-25 00:07:18 UTC

My own reflection✅✅✅

💯I went to practicum for 1 month during my 2nd year studies. I enjoyed the internship, but it had its challenges. I didn't have any terrible difficulties during my practicum, but I started looking for more effective ways to teach. Then I had a lot of questions. And I tried to get answers to my questions from others, but I couldn't get complete answers. I talked a lot to my teacher about it: Why are most students not interested in English class? How can they be trained more effectively and in what ways? I had many similar questions. And fortunately, Elyanora Mengliyeva, an expert from England, taught us how to do research. I was very happy. I decided to take the questions that bothered me during practice as a topic for my research, and it was very interesting.

My research topic is "How can I teach school children more effectively?" After that, I talked to my teacher, who helped me during my practicum, about this topic many times in telegram chats and got advice. My teachers Umida Hakimova and Adhamjon Kadirov also showed me directions. I have witnessed that to effectively teach children, I first learn about the things that interest them and use these things during the lesson to increase their learning. Because I also proved that children aged 7-10 years are more interested in the game and remember new words quickly and for a long time through action games. To prove this, 1-2 graders in my apartment, where I live for 5 days, helped and proved that this method is correct.

My action plan

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🤓to engage full classroom to the lesson
🤓new methods (role-play, storytelling, picture books, speaking cards)
🤓new strategies to teach school-children

My findings

2025-03-27 08:34:24 UTC

During the practicum, many interesting questions were collected, and I gathered information from teachers using Mentimeter.

1st question: What type of teachers can work with school students without difficulties?

Strict - 75%

Others - 25%

2nd question: What difficulties are mainly encountered in teaching foreign languages?

Vocabulary - 50%

Speaking - 25%

Pronunciation - 25%

3rd question: What is the most effective method for teaching students a foreign language?

Active games - 55%

Videos - 25%

Textbook - 20%