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 We got a great chance that we can go into the European School in Taipei and we can observe professional teachers' class. Let's check out. 

 terms for class 

G - grade 

CLC = Chinese Language and Culture

 DT = Design and Technology 

ICT = Computing

PE = Physical Education 

PSHE = Personal, Social and Health Education

 Grade 3 

  MATH

BEFORE THE CLASS  (EVERYONE IS READING AND TEACHER IS CHECKING THEIR Assignments)

1. Play the music when the class gets ready and all the students come to sit on the carpet
2. Waiting for quietness to get the lesson start
3. Water bottles / shoes outside
4. DIVISION

• T SHOWS A VIDEO OF DIVISION
• POSE QUESTIONS AND MAKE STUDENTS FACE TO FACE TO TALK
• (if one wants to talk, put up your hands and wait & if one shouts, get a warning card. )

        5. When the video ends, t shows three kinds of worksheet

• Picture
• Math blanks 4*__=
• Application

       6. If students are finished, they can get their chromebook to play math games or to take the math card games.

       7. Checking time

• Make Ss to sit on the carpet again
• Check the answer together

Rubrics Master (missed 1)/ consulting(missed 5) / developing (missed up 10

 TOPIC : healthy food.

Every student needed to finish a poster with articles and pictures. They had to find some useful resources on the Internet. students’ perspectives of the issues were linked to the international world.

  SPELLING WRITING + PSHE

Students were divided into four groups and they had to join four different classes step by step.

some of students have learned near-synonyms, they can write a lot of near-synonyms at one time.

students also went to guided reading, grammar classes which were taught by different teachers

  GRADE 4

   TOPIC: fair trade  tea consumption

Students mixed-up aged class with in different levels of students ¯ Differentiated Instruction

 class one 

student discussing the sequence of the story of  a “Tea production line” through reading about the descriptions of the important characters.

Q & A GAME

Presentation

T showed different products that can be seen in the supermarket.

Ss have to compare the price between the product that has fair trade mark on it and the one doesn’t.

T posed some question to trigger Ss’ high level of thinking and raised some controversial problems in the real world.

 Class two 

Warm up

Gathering on the carpet and giving a class talk

students are assigned to color 20 countries, connecting with the topic “Fair trade” on the world map just with an atlas.

Presentation

1.      color five tea producing countries in green and five tea consuming countries in brown on the map

2.      Ss can check atlases to know more detail of each country and get more information they need.

Production

Worksheet: marked and discussed

Each S picked up some small index-like card and he/she had to write and draw a fair trade food item and its producing country.

Ss can use Chromebook if they want to know more information

Fast finished – more cards

Wrap up

 grade 5 

 CLC: CHINESE AND CULTURE  ¯ incoming mid-term speech

«Warm up

1.      T showed how to prepared their mid-term speech

2.      Ss have to give an oral speech of a topic like 鐵蛋

« Presentation

1.      Ss have been working on the project for a few weeks

« production

1.      Ss can work independently

« wrap up

MATH ¯ multiples / factors / common factors

T gave clear instructions, clarified Ss’ questions, made sure that what Ss focus on what they are doing, and gave positive feedbacks.

Ss got involved and engaged in the class, Ss knew how to solve the math problems by illustrated them out in class. T cited an famous saying by Albert Einstein, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

students try to identify the common factors between two numbers. Students enjoy their studying with enthusiast. For example, in the math class

 CHINESE  CLC 

«Main focus: give a purpose of learning

They learn how to do an oral presentation, learning to make something, speaking in Chinese and how they will be graded all in one. 

Warm up : class dojo – read the Chinese poems out

Presentation: (explain today’s mission)

1.      Ask Ss to gather on the big carpet in the center of the class

2.      The teacher used concept map to illustrate how the student should prepare the presentation

3.      T used Q&A to make sure everyone understand what they are going to do.

Production:

1.      Make Ss to talk their ideas first them ask Ss to write on their scrapbook on their own.

2.      Ms. Kuo used a timer to remind students on their progress, and after each time, she’ll recycle the reminder for the students so students can carry on in their own pace.

Warp up:

1.      Ask Ss to gather on the big carpet in the center of the class again

2.      keep going on next part of paragraph writing

 Maths 

« main focus: constructivist approach in math teaching

Warm up : gathering on the carpet with mini white boards and markers.

Presentation:

1.      Pose Questions and ask Ss to solve the problems.

2.      T shows different ways of solving the problem and encouraged students to try for different methods.

Production: worksheet

1.      Students then went back to their table for individual work. They are allowed to choose the one they want to do first and allowed to talk with each other in propitiate voice. 

2.      Students were building their math skills in reading (some questions are about comprehension and not calculation skills) and enjoying it immensely.

3.      individual student was able to carry on the task at their own speed and LEARN at their own speed.

Wrap up

1.      playing card multiplication game (Kunfu Fighting)

 GRADE 6

TOPIC

1. show a bunch of flowers and ask questions about the flowers
2. Set up today’s task

• Watch two videos on the chromebook
• Follow the video and finish the worksheet ( create a label of part of flower )
• Use pad to record the introduction of part of flower and upload to the system of seesaw
• Do the second worksheet (name the part of flower )

           3. If you are finished PE TIME

ENGLISH

 class 1 

 kids were using spelling or vocabulary lists at readiness levels of their own. The teacher was monitoring small groups or helping with some struggling students.

students had individual goals of learning English vocabulary. They wrote paragraphs of article with pictures in contexts. Moreover, they practiced those vocabularies in pairs.

students learned in a small team. There were six kids and one teacher in that small room. They were doing reading strategy activity. I liked the way the teacher interacted with those students. Everyone had a lot of chances to read the article and express their thoughts. At next stage, another teacher guided students to make good use of synonyms and antonyms of words.

students are divided into four groups and they have to run to different classes for different types of learning, such as guided reading, grammar & vocabulary, online reading discussion board, etc. and each is directed by a different teacher.