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Classroom observation tasks : a resource book for language teachers

By: Wajnryb, Ruth
Material type: BookSeries: Cambridge teacher training and development.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992.Description: viii, 145 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0521407222Subject(s): Observation (Educational method) | Teachers -- Training ofDDC classification: 418.007 WA CL Online resources: Location Map
Summary:
Classroom Observation Tasks shows how to use observation to learn about language teaching. It does this by providing a range of tasks which guide the user through the process of observing, analysing and reflecting, and which develop the skills of observation. The book contains a bank of 35 structured tasks which are grouped into seven areas of focus: the learner, the language, the learning process, the lesson, teaching skills and strategies, classroom management, and materials and resources. Each task looks at one aspect of a particular area; for example, the language a teacher uses to ask questions, or how the teacher monitors learning, or how people interact in a lesson. Each task provides guidance in how to record observations, and questions to help users interpret the data and relate the experience to their own teaching circumstances and practice. [This book]: a- is addressed mainly to teachers, but also caters for trainee teachers, teacher trainers and others involved in school-based teacher support, teacher development and trainer training; b- has a comprehensive introduction to the tasks and a rationale covering the theoretical issues involved; and c- places the responsibility for professional growth in the hands of the teacher. -- Back cover.
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Item type Home library Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
TEACHER REF University of Wollongong in Dubai
Tardis 		371.1 WA CL (Browse shelf) Available Mar2020 T0064508
REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai
Main Collection 		371.1 WA CL (Browse shelf) Available T0010599
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• Introduction
• The tasks: the learner
• Language
• Learning
• The lesson
• Teaching skills and strategies
• Classroom management
• Materials and resources.

Classroom Observation Tasks shows how to use observation to learn about language teaching. It does this by providing a range of tasks which guide the user through the process of observing, analysing and reflecting, and which develop the skills of observation. The book contains a bank of 35 structured tasks which are grouped into seven areas of focus: the learner, the language, the learning process, the lesson, teaching skills and strategies, classroom management, and materials and resources. Each task looks at one aspect of a particular area; for example, the language a teacher uses to ask questions, or how the teacher monitors learning, or how people interact in a lesson. Each task provides guidance in how to record observations, and questions to help users interpret the data and relate the experience to their own teaching circumstances and practice. [This book]: a- is addressed mainly to teachers, but also caters for trainee teachers, teacher trainers and others involved in school-based teacher support, teacher development and trainer training; b- has a comprehensive introduction to the tasks and a rationale covering the theoretical issues involved; and c- places the responsibility for professional growth in the hands of the teacher. -- Back cover.

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