First I want to say thanks to Alice for giving us another precious opportunity to visit
Lishan
Junior High School. So far as I knew till my visiting
Lishan
Junior High School, I always regarded it as just a usual school as any other one in
Taipei but focuses on its sport profession – table tennis. Why do I say this, because Lishan Junior High is always famous to everyone’s memory by its prominent table tennis achievement. However, I was absolutely stunned by its English teaching when I saw the paper or essay written in English individually by those students who are just in grade nine.
This visiting to Lishan is great at large, but it was too bad that we each person only had a chance to observe and to join one class of them. To take myself for example, I observed the English teacher called 呂琇年, though in the beginning, there was something wrong with her notebook, afterwards she taught the complicated grammar very well especially when her answer was printed wrong on the screen but she still used someway to avoid embarrassment by calling the mistakes illusion which made us laugh loudly. In addition, the time of her teaching was controlled very well, too. For as soon as the ring stroke, she finished the content on time. About the content she taught was very clear and easy for the students to understand by her explanation of the differences between the two different grammatical usage. After my observation back to the visual classroom, I felt that I had wanted to observe the first class which some others of us observed at 9 o’clock. Generally speaking, in this visiting, I really learned a lot and knew something I hadn’t known before. For instance, I thought teaching by projector sometime was inappropriate, because it would pose the students feeling bored and be hard to make the student concentrate in class. But now I know how to keep the students abreast with the teacher step just only by some questions on handouts to reinforce students to catch and to pay attention on what the teacher is talking about. Via this interactive way between the teacher and the students, students would be afraid of omitting something important from the teacher’s lecture or being asked some questions then they now would learn faster, more efficient and more diligent than before. Therefore, I could combine the handouts with drawing lot to keep them more concentrated and better.
