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74 Maximizing learning opportunities
3.1.8 Go over the content of your completed tables. Think about whether this particular lesson is typical or atypical of your classroom teaching in terms of the occurrence of display and referential ques- tions. Decide on the kind of changes you will have to make in order to maximize the creation of learning opportunities in class.
Exploratory Project 3.2: What the Learners Learned
3.2.0 One of the most important challenges of classroom teaching is to assess whether the learners see learning opportunities as learning opportunities. In the previous project, you tried to self-assess the de- gree to which you created opportunities for vocabulary learning in the lesson you taught. It would be interesting to see what learners thought they learned from that lesson.
3.2.1 Go over the Student Response Sheets you collected for the pre- vious project (see 3.1.3 above). Consolidate their responses to each of the following seven items in Figure 3.4 and take down key words from their responses.
Item
Key words taken from student responses
My reaction to their responses
1. What they think I wanted them to learn
2. Words they say are completely new to them
3. Words they say they learned fully
4. Words they say they learned partially
5. Words they say they do not understand even after teaching
6. Other things they say they learned
7. Their general comments
Figure 3.4