Decision-making for next lesson planning based on previous class: experience report on a pedagogical residence project in english as a foreign language class in Brazil

Abstract

The present study emerges from my participation in the English Language Pedagogical Residency project of the Universidade Federal do Ceará in a municipal public school in Fortaleza, from September 2018 to June 2019. The activities happened in the context of a fulltime municipal elementary school in the English language lessons. Such classes involved 77 students from 7th and 9th grade and were held in the computer lab. The aim of this paper is to analyze how the post-taught class reflection influence on the construction of the teaching methodology and strategy during student teaching experience. The considerations about a Reflective Approach and the Understanding of Teaching Experience take as theoretical base the studies of Richards and Farrel (2011) and Tsui (2003). The analysis of the activities reflected composes an experience report about the development of the performance as a student teacher. The results obtained in each class will be investigated in terms of: content compliance, student participation, student motivation/task performance, and group interaction with the whole group. Looking at positive aspects, the students' performance was a relevant “variable” considered for qualitative analysis.