Teaching Reflection

When my teachings are observed by my tutors and peers, I can say that one of my strengths is rapport throughout the teaching practices. I tried to provide pleasant lesson environment with my learners. According to my tutors, I could improve my TTT and language grading day by day. I always wanted to try a variety of teaching techniques in my lessons and according to my peers, I could manage it. In my written feedbacks, students are mostly engaged in lessons and there is a positive atmosphere with good involvement. In addition, as in my peer feedbacks, I could prepare clear and relevant materials to my learners. I gave importance to the learners’ needs and interests. According to my peers ‘oral feedback, mostly my lessons are student-centered.

My department is already English Language Teaching but I realized that university education and Celta education are quite different from one another. In terms of teachings, Celta gave me a variety of insights about lesson planning. Now, I feel more confident because I know how to design a lesson, how to adapt materials, how to provide classroom management in a detailed way. I have benefitted especially from skills lessons because teaching of skills was a problem for me. Thanks to demo lessons, lively learning atmosphere and a variety of materials and teaching styles, I could learn how do design receptive and productive skills lessons. Throughput my university education, we didn’t learn CCQs and ICQs. I have just learned what are they and how I use them. This practical information is really important for me in terms of better teachings. I could realize the importance of CCQs and ICQs. They make the meaning of the lesson more clearly and at the end as a teacher, I can see positive learning outcomes. Lastly, I realized the importance of peer checking. I didn’t use to give importance to peer-checking especially in my internship. However, I observed that it contributes to learners’ motivation and also the teacher can get feedback by monitoring the