Bridging the gap between theory and practice through classroom observation tasks

LÓPEZ BARRIOS, MARIO LUIS; SAPAG, NORA LÍA

Comodoro Rivadavia

Congreso; 26° Congreso Anual de la Federación Argentina de Asociaciones de Profesores de Inglés (FAAPI); 2000

Asociación Patagónica de Profesores de Inglés

As teacher trainers we perceive that trainees experience a number of problems when attempting to explain and evaluate what they observe in classrooms in the light of the theoretical concepts dealt with in the methods course. The purpose of the proposed paper is to argue for the merits of focussed observation tasks as opposed to unstructured global classroom observations. This will be supported by means of data collected from reports on observation tasks written by trainees at two teacher training institutions in Córdoba.