Observation
lesson (13.03.14) in Miemalan koulu (primary school)
The
lesson was provided by the teacher of music, geography and history Riky Kokkola.
The geography lesson in the
six-grade class in the Finnish language. The subject is "The
Countries of Europe".
Introduction.
At the beginning of the lesson Aitzhan Kazhkenova and Gylden Kairalieva,
geography teachers from Kazakhstan, made two presentations in the English
language called "Kazakhstan on the World Map" and "Customs and
Traditions of the Kazakh Nation" and also showed a video called "The
National Games of Kazakhstan".The students expressed interest to the
information provided, asked questions and quite often asked their teacher to
translate from Finnish into English. A majority of
students speak English but still have some difficulties with the foreign
language.The students volunteered to model our national constumes and enjoyed
it.The students showed interest to the national game 'Asyk' and were excited
playing it.
Riky as their teacher provided his feedback and noted that it was
important to have us as the representatives of Kazakhstan to talk about the
ethnic culture.
This was more valuable than
information provided in Internet.
The geography lesson started
with solving the conflict of the previous day related to unacceptable insult
due to ethnic background. It was a positive atmosphere in the class. All
speakers were applauded. It took about 20 min to resolve the stressful
atmosphere in the class.
As for geography subject, students had practical tasks including
information search in Internet. All students worked independently and were
focused on their tasks. The teacher interchanged different types of activity
and professionally managed the teaching process.
It was a very interesting lesson.
