Name of Tutor Christine Hunter
Venue Hovis Birmingham Date 03/11/08
Subject area Professional Train the Trainer Time 1330-1430
Number of students 6
Lesson plan available Y Scheme of Work available N
1. Classroom environment / organisational skills
It was a basic classroom set-up with white board, table and chairs, mounted projector and screen. Air conditioning was also available.
Christine had organised the seating and layout in accordance with her learning plan,
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Pencils, pens, paper were provided as well as a work book containing the slides for key point to be noted on. Handouts and quizzes were also included
Each of the students completed a pre-course application form and interview that helped identify their oral & written English competency. This course was not available in other languages at this time.
2. Classroom Management
Christine had a confident but relaxed classroom manor and greeted each student as they entered the training room. Also, at times when certain learners got a little loud or chatty, Christine remained calm and showed patience but applied control, verbally and through body language. The atmosphere in the room was nice, the temperature was just right, so this will have maintained a comfortable environment for the learners.
There was a definite sense of anticipation from the students and only silence could be heard from around the table. Christine started by introducing herself and laying out some of the ground rules before commencing with an icebreaker, student introduction of themselves.
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Handouts and work sheets were given to the students, and Christine supported the learners on a 1:1 basis. I was a little disappointed with one of the handouts as it contained very little information for the learners to refer to, it was also in relation to a key objective. It was good to see that the PowerPoint presentation was not used excessively and only as reference to each module, Christine used discussion, questioning and observation techniques to put across the learning points and extract views and ideas from the