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Question1: What are the principles, criteria and methods for teaching evaluation?

Answer:

1) The principles of teaching evaluation include: ① Is the class helpful to the development of both students and teacher? ② Did we participate in the process of evaluation? ③ Was the evaluation limited to assessing the teaching outcomes? ④ Was the evaluation multi-dimensional with a variety of evaluators, evaluation methods, evaluation content and means of analysis? ⑤ Was it efficient based on a rate of return, which means calculating the ratio of teaching outcome to the time and effort invested per unit time? ⑥ Did the evaluation include evaluating the art of teaching?

2) The US criteria include: the organization of learning content, creation of learning environment, and development of teaching and teachers; the UK criteria include: learning atmosphere, classroom environment, resources, the teacher as planner, the teacher as deliverer or leader, the teacher as facilitator and guide and the role of students.

3) Methods of teaching evaluation include classroom observation, interviews with students and colleagues, questionnaires and teaching journals.

Question2: What are the approaches to reflective teaching? Which ones do you want to use?

Answer:

1) Approaches of reflective teaching include teaching journals, lesson reports, surveys and questionnaires, audio and video recordings, observation, and action research. 2) I want to use teaching journals because events and ideas written can become the source of reflection and the process of writing itself helps trigger insights about teaching. It’s a path to accumulating information about our teaching.

Question3: What teaching behaviors can be the focus for classroom observation and self-reflection?

Answer:

For classroom observation, the focus should be on how to improve our own teaching by learning from our colleagues; while for self-reflection, the focus could be on organization of the lesson; teachers’ role in class; students’ role; changes in the lesson plan; teacher-student interaction patterns; student-student interaction patterns; transitions within lessons; the opening and closing of the lesson.

Question4: What problems in the classroom can be the subject for action research?

Answer:

Action research can be used to solve an immediate problem and there are many subjects: students’ reaction of a certain technique and students’ interest in a certain topic.