Observation lesson (13.03.14) in Miemalan koulu (primary school)

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.