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INTERNSHIP REPORT ON

PRACTICAL TEACHING AND CLASS OBSERVATION

Submitted by – Fariha Rahman Moon

ID: 143-10-1074 Batch: 33

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Semester: Fall 2018 Course title: Project Paper

Course code: Eng-334

Submitted to – Dr. Binoy Barman Associate Professor Department of English Daffodil International University

Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Declaration

I do hereby declare that the Internship Report submitted to the Department of English, Daffodil International University is an original work for the fulfillment of my course “Project Paper with Internship” (Course Code:

ENG-334) in the program of B.A (Hons) in English. The internship report on “The Practical teaching and class observation” was written under the supervision of Dr. Binoy Barman.

Name: Fariha Rahman Moon Program: BA (Hons) in English Batch: 33^rd

ID No: 143-10-1074 Department of English

Daffodil International University

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Letter of Approval

It is my pleasure to certify that the Internship Report submitted to the Department of English, Daffodil International University by Fariha Rahman Moon for the fulfillment of the course “Project Paper with Internship”

(Course Code: ENG-334) in the program of B.A. (Hons) in English is an original piece of work done under my supervision.

This Internship Report is recommended for submission to the Department of English, Daffodil International University.

Dr. Binoy Barman

Associate Professor Department of English

Daffodil International University Bangladesh

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Acknowledgement

At first I would like to thank almighty Allah for being able to complete my project paper successfully. I would also like to thank my supervisor Dr. Binoy Barman, Associate professor of English Department, without whom it was impossible to do my project paper. I’m really grateful to him for his proper guidance, advice and instruction during completion of my internship. I’m also grateful to the Head of Lalmatia Girls' High School and the class teachers for their nice co-operation during the period of my internship.

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Abstract

I visited Lalmatia Girls High School, which is located at Lalmatia, Mohammadpur, Dhaka 1207, for my project work. I started my Internship on 7^th October to 9^th October. I observed and took three classes during that time. I came out with some findings and put forward a few suggestions so that the teaching system in the school may be improved. It was great experience on my part to engage in class conduction and observation. I learnt the techniques of classroom procedure. It made me confident in teaching. I hope this experience will help me in future if I pursue a teaching career.

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Introduction

I visited Lalmatia Girls High School and completed my Internship in this school. It is a well- known Secondary School listed in Secondary School category. It is one of the renowned schools in Lalmatia, Mohammadpur which is an MPO listed school. The school is built on almost 2 acres area. Academic result is very good in this school. The school open at 9 am and close 4 pm.

I was very excited to visit the school and it was really a new experience for me. Though at first I was a little bit nervous, later I become normal. The teachers and students were very friendly towards me. They tried to make me feel free during observing and taking classes.

Basically I observed how the teachers took their classes and the students were happy with the teaching Here I narrate my experience of internship.

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Objectives

The objectives of this internship are

 To know the present situations of English language teaching system in Bangladesh and also to learn and practice classroom management in the real field.

 To observe some classes and learn some teaching techniques.

 Gaining practical experience of interacting with students and teachers. .

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Methodology

In order to finish all the objectives I had to take the following steps.

01: I selected Lalmatia Girl’s High School for my internship.

02: I observed three classes and took three classes completing my project.

03: I selected class Six, Seven and class Ten to observe and to conduct lessons after reviewing class schedule. Then I filled the checklist given by my supervisor as a form of collecting data.

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Institution Details

Name Lalmatia Girl’s High School

Found Established in 1958

Location Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Buildings There are four buildings

Building ownership Government

Number of student’s There are 1500 students Number of Teachers There are 40 teachers Teachers qualification B.A. / BSc.: 18

M.A. / MSc.: 22

Economic Issues As the school is MPO listed major of fund comes from government. And partial financial support comes from the admission fee, monthly tuition fee, examination fee.

Other Factors Playground: No

Library: Yes Canteen: Yes Transportation: No CCTV Security: yes Multimedia Facilities: No

Class observation 01:

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I started my observation with English 2^nd paper of class VI. Before I entered the classroom I asked the teacher for his permission to observe his class. The teacher welcomed me gratefully. I saw a good number of students were present in that class.

After entered into the classroom teacher introduced me to the students and tried to make me feel comfortable in front of them. The students also showed respect to me. After a while the teacher started to teach them about some rules of article. He discussed almost twenty minute about article. All the students were very attentive during teacher deliver his speech. Then teacher asked them to raise hand those who did not understand his lecture and the rules properly. I saw none of them raise their hand. Then the teacher wrote down 20 examples of article in the board and told them to fill the blank with proper article.

I noticed, except few students all the students were very active. Almost everyone finished the work within 10 minutes. Though some students were messing up during class but the teacher handled it in a smooth way. Thus I completed my first class observation.

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The second class I observed was of class VII and Around 40 students were present at the class. It was English 1^st paper class. The class started at 11:30 am. This time classroom was different than the previous classroom. All the students were very calm and quiet.

The teacher came and asked them to write one paragraph out of three. He wrote down these three paragraph’s name on the board, three paragraphs are (1) A farmer (2) Tree plantation (3) Street beggar. I noticed maximum students choose a farmer and street beggar. During check their script we found Most of them wrote same lines in their paragraph and that’s prove everyone memorize from the same book. Teacher told me that’s the problem now a day’s students are just memorize and for that they are losing creativity skill.

It was a great experience to observe the students of class VII. The teacher was very friendly with me and his lecture was very clear and effective.

Class Observation 03:

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The last and third class I observed was of class IX. It was English Second paper Grammar class. Around 35 students were present in that class.

The class was about Tag question. The teacher came and started to talk about what is tag question and some basic rules of tag question. The teacher was around 50 years old. After finished his lecture he started to ask question one by one. Besides asking tag question he also asked them what tense is it. After that he gave exercise of tag question from the grammar book and told them to form a group of five person each group. I saw the teacher emphasize on group work very much. After 15 minutes he started to evaluate all the group works and marked them all.

It was a quite engaged class I have ever had. The teacher was very friendly with all. I gained lot of knowledge of teaching strategy from that class.

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My first teaching experience was with class VI. It was English 2^nd paper class. At first I went to the teacher for taking his permission to have a class with them. The teacher grant my urge.

I was little bit nervous and was unable to maintain eye contact with students. But after a while I become normal and started to talk with them. I asked their name first and what is their aim in life and many other things so that they can take me friendly.

After introduction session I started to teach them Tense. I defined what is tense and its types.

I explained what is present, past and future tenses. Then I gave them some examples. I tried to give all the examples in a simple way so that they would not get bored. I found some students were making noise during the class. I simply told them to stop making noise and coming back to the lesson.

It was first ever teaching experience of my life. I had 40 minute to take this class, later I felt I wish I could have more time to teach them.

Date 8th^th October 2018

Class duration 45 minutes

Topic Present Tense

(Definition, Structure, Example)

Covered topic 20 minutes

Exercise 15 minutes

Introduction 10 minutes

Class Experience 02:

As a part of my internship I took 2^nd class with the help of the class teacher of class VII.I went to the school at 10.45 am in order to take my second class. Before taking the class I got

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to know from previous class observation that many of student’s in this class do not know how to write a paragraph without memorizing. I just tried to teach them some strategic ways that will help them to write any paragraph without memorizing.

I told them, before writing any paragraph just think about the three parts. The first part is introduction, second one is body para and last one is conclusion. After that I gave them a paragraph to write a rickshaw puller. I gave them 20 minutes to write this. During check the scripts I found many of them did very well and some student’s did very badly. I think those who did badly they do not have sufficient vocabulary knowledge.

That’s how I finished my second class experience on that day. It was quiet good feeling for me that I could teach them something beneficial for them.

Date 9^th October 2018

Class duration 45 minutes

Topic Free hand paragraph Writing

Exercise 20 minutes

Class experience 03:

My last class experience was with class IX. I entered the class room with class teacher. After

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question. That’s why I decided to take a lesson on this. I taught them some words are like seldom, rare, hardly, few, little, scarcely, no sooner these words are negative that time question tag should be affirmative. I noticed many of them are scared of grammar and that’s why they were asking me too much question which proves they are not confident enough on themselves. That time I tried to inspire them in many ways. I also gave them example of myself that I was also weak on grammar, but I did lot of practice and that’s how I overcame this problem. I told them to practice grammar more and more at their home, and then class was finished.

The class was quiet enjoyable for me, because all the students were very polite and well manner. That’s how I finished my last class experience.

Date 9^th October 2018

Duration 45 minutes

Topic Tag question

Overall findings

a) There is no doubt that the academic system and the campus environment of the school provides quality education. The classrooms are quiet long and have enough natural exposer which proves a positive academic environment.

b) The students are very obedient and very well manner to the teachers.

c) The class teachers use too much Bengali in the classroom which is a negative sign to me. I think if teachers use 100 percent English in the classroom that will be more beneficial for the students.

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d) There were some naughty girls in the classroom who are not attentive at all in the class. Some students did not want to co-operative with the teacher. But most of students are very polite and gentle.

e) The Academic facilities are in quite satisfactory level. Classrooms are so bigger and there was good ventilation system with proper circulation of air and day light.

Recommendations

I would like to strongly recommend that, the school should make a digital classroom

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Students sometime do not understand teachers’ speech properly. They should be aware of their accent, language and speech.

Conclusion

This project work has provided me with an opportunity to gain experience in teaching English in a school. It is really so useful. It was a life time experience I have ever gained. I have learnt many unknown things through this project. I learnt many teaching strategy which will help me in my future career. After doing this project I got to know that, actually teaching profession is not so easy as we thought. A teacher does a lot of hard work in the classroom so that students can learn lessons properly.

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I wish to take teaching profession as my future career and want to learn more and more throughout my life.