Post-Lesson Forum课后研讨会

Immediately after that Chinese Language lesson, all of us (teacher-observers) moved over to another room for a Post-mortem Forum with the CL teacher. This forum is facilitated by a Master Teacher of the school. The forum began with the Master Teacher giving the background of the lesson (eg prior knowledge of the pupils for that particular lesson: techniques in descriptive essay-writing). This was followed by the CL teacher sharing her thoughts on the rationale of having her lesson designed in such a manner. Then the floor was opened for teacher-observers to give feedback on her lesson. Most of them were very forthcoming and frank in giving their views. It was a good balance of both affirmative comments (such as the variety of classroom activities planned), as well as suggestions for improvement (eg the need to provide further guidance in helping pupils to see from different perspectives, thereby allowing deeper understanding and appreciation of the objects that they observe and describe/write about). The CL teacher was open to feedback, and acknowledged instantly to most of the relevant suggestions. The focus of the entire discussion has been on the learning impact at the pupils' end. The Master Teacher further invited teacher-observers who did not speak up to contribute to the discussion. Attention was also given to teachers who are from the other 8 schools and had not contributed to the discussion. As a result, the discussion was, to a large extent, an in-depth one, due to the wealth of experience of teachers, from the different schools and various background of students that they are teaching.