Observation of Student
Assignment One
Focus on the Learner
As a practising teacher it may be necessary to write a report on a particular student in regard to their learning process. This report may be for a student’s employer or for further learning in a school or college environment. In this report I am observing and reporting on a student called Anna from Poland.
Anna is a lady who has lived in Ireland for seven years. She arrived in Ireland with very limited English language skills. She said in her formative schooling English was not taught or at less not a priority in the educational system, at that time Poland was not part of the European Union so I suspected that any English was self learnt.
Anna is a very positive person, when she arrived in Dublin and started working as a cleaner she said that she was very lucky to have had a very good employer. She said that her employer was very patient and helpful to her in relation to her lack of language skills. She said that her early learning of words and sentences came from her fellow workers and Polish friends. To her credit, as time passed she was promoted to Manager and managed of a group of workers for her employer. At this point her development of the language came from the television and native speakers.
Anna is a well educated woman, she was a Teacher in Poland and from talking to her she seemed quite familiar with the dynamics of a classroom. She would be familiar with the element of visual aids, drilling and class activities. I noted that in the Elementary Class Anna is very motivated and clearly wants to improve her English and complete one of her ambitions to become a Teacher in Ireland! She is very aware that this requires a very high level of competency to reach this goal. This ambition is further intensified, because just recently met an native English speaker and wants to be able to speak fluent English to his family.
In the classroom Anna is very interactive with the fellow students as she engages and
Focus on the Learner
As a practising teacher it may be necessary to write a report on a particular student in regard to their learning process. This report may be for a student’s employer or for further learning in a school or college environment. In this report I am observing and reporting on a student called Anna from Poland.
Anna is a lady who has lived in Ireland for seven years. She arrived in Ireland with very limited English language skills. She said in her formative schooling English was not taught or at less not a priority in the educational system, at that time Poland was not part of the European Union so I suspected that any English was self learnt.
Anna is a very positive person, when she arrived in Dublin and started working as a cleaner she said that she was very lucky to have had a very good employer. She said that her employer was very patient and helpful to her in relation to her lack of language skills. She said that her early learning of words and sentences came from her fellow workers and Polish friends. To her credit, as time passed she was promoted to Manager and managed of a group of workers for her employer. At this point her development of the language came from the television and native speakers.
Anna is a well educated woman, she was a Teacher in Poland and from talking to her she seemed quite familiar with the dynamics of a classroom. She would be familiar with the element of visual aids, drilling and class activities. I noted that in the Elementary Class Anna is very motivated and clearly wants to improve her English and complete one of her ambitions to become a Teacher in Ireland! She is very aware that this requires a very high level of competency to reach this goal. This ambition is further intensified, because just recently met an native English speaker and wants to be able to speak fluent English to his family.
In the classroom Anna is very interactive with the fellow students as she engages and