Error Management

Error Management.

On the last day of this semester, I had a chance to observe four lessons; I concentrated on the variety of student’s errors, even though it was difficult for me to observe a particular subject at once. Nevertheless, before I write about student’s errors, I would like to mention that my mentor teacher is fixing my errors too, I personally appreciate what she is doing for improving my English level even though she does not have to.  I think the reason I need someone to fix my errors is that I came from the IT field were writing English at higher levels was not required as it is in this field. However, I do feel my self-developing in writing every time my mentor teacher fixes my writing errors.

The teacher does fix student’s error more often right away, for instance, when student spelt the word “ strong” as a“ wrong “ or " can" as " can't" then teacher fix his pronouncing error right away, I noticed it is a good idea to do so because if the teacher ignore this error, other students may think their colleague spelt it correctly. The teacher, sometimes stops and focus on a student is pronouncing error by asking the student to repeat the word until he or she gets it right.  I think such an effort from the teacher is appreciated, but for a big class, it may consume a lot of time.

When Students make mistakes in grammar, the teacher reacts fast by telling the student “no, it is not correct “and she writes on the blackboard the correct version. A teacher using a blackboard a lot, as she is drawing many pictures, and writing the similar sound of the words to facilitate for the students.

Sometimes the teacher asks other students if their colleague spelt the word correct, and if not, she asks other students who know the correct spelling to shout it J .