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MY PORTFOLIO

IntroductionI am Md. Mosharraf Hossain, a participant of the TEA Program. I am from

Bangladesh, here for six weeks to receive the training on professional development and skills. Here I am in the George Mason University, attending several seminars and conferences to get ideas and information and teaching-learning strategies and about the culture and the system of education of the

schools in the U.S.A. As a part of this training, here I am getting training about how to get and keep Portfolio for personal Reflection, Professional Development and Change. This is why; I am writing and keeping here my

portfolio for my professional development, to be applied in my school in my own country.

Who Am I As A TeacherTeaching is a noble profession and teachers are the torch-bearers of education of a country. No profession in the world is as good as teaching. In my student life, when I came to know this fact, I had a commitment to my country that one day I would be a teacher and serve for the country as a nation builder. This is why; I became a teacher to spread the light of education in the society.

The role of a teacher: I think the teacher is a guardian of the society. He works as an agency of the civilization. Usually we know, the person who teaches the students in an educational institution, is called a teacher. So a teacher has to play many roles in a school and as well as in the society. In a school, a teacher has to play the roles of an administrator, facilitator, a guardian of the students a friend of them and sometimes a friend of them. But outside the school, the teacher has to play the role of a reliable friend of the people of the society, a guide and a messenger of them.

The teacher should have the freedom of his own choice in the respective work-area. Keeping pace with the other parts of the educational-field of the world, a teacher must have the rights of receiving training from any training-sources to gear up his professional proficiency and to develop his skills of teaching on the basis of his subject. He should have the rights to change him into a good teacher. A teacher should have the freedom of making his own lesson plan according to the necessity of his fruitful teaching to the students. A teacher should have the rights to implement his own methods and techniques in the classroom to support his perfect and acceptable teaching to the students. But a teacher is not out of the curriculum and the syllabus of his subjects.

A teacher has to do so many critical activities in his work-area. No doubt, a teacher has to face challenges institutionally and socially. Yet teaching is a noble profession. Though teaching is a hard work, I enjoy it very much and this is why I am a teacher.

Personal/Fieldwork ReflectionsHow To Improve My Classroom Activities In My Native School

Classroom is a part and parcel of an educational institution. It is the place where students learn many things. So a classroom should be well decorated in order that students can feel comfortable and pleasure to receive lessons from their teachers. It is also important for the teachers to feel ease in the classroom to teach the students properly for the maximum benefit of their student. This is why, as a teacher of English language of a secondary school, I want to improve my classroom more beautifully than before when I will be back to my school after the completion of my training course arranged by IREX- TEA Program under the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States.

Under this program, I visited a school here called Williamsburg Middle School and observed their classroom situations and activities. There are so many differences between their classrooms and ours in my country, Bangladesh. Their classrooms are decorated with all modern facilities including computers, projectors and all kinds of electronic equipments, text-books, reference books of all subjects including science and technology. It is say that every classroom has a mini library which has a collection of many important and interesting books.

Another thing is that their classes are smaller than those of ours. In my country, our classroom has 70 to 80 students even more than one hundred students, but they have very few students in their classes. Their classroom is 100% student-centered classroom but my classrooms are not enriched with those kinds of modern materials as they got here and they are partly student-centered. In their schools in America, the teachers and the students are very communicative. The teachers are not administrative and hard persons, instead they are very friendly and helpful towards the students. The students have freedom to express their opinions and to share their views and informations with their teachers. Teachers assess their values with importance and give their feedback with gentle corrections if necessary. So both the teachers and the students here have positive attitude for teaching-learning activities. Inside and outside the classrooms they maintain discipline very strongly. But though I try to do it in my school, I can't be successful for some reasons.

In America, the teachers try to practice all the methods of teaching very carefully. They maintain the teaching techniques seriously. They make their students do group-work, pair-work, individual-work, silent and personal reading very nicely. Their vocabulary presentation is also attractive. Their test-system is fine. I also do these but I can not implement all these methods and techniques in my work-area for environmental problems and for the lack of teaching-equipments and classroom-materials.

The teachers here in America have some specific goals for their classroom activities. They take the responsibilities of the students education honestly. They set the students to do moral and social activities. They are also aware of their students physical and mental health. In their well-furnished schools they have all arrangements of sports and taking physical exercise in the well-decorated playground and gymnasiam. In my school, I will try to follow all these practices.

My Self-Improvement Plan, 2007.

Step 1

Primary Afliative (35)

Backup Oppositional (11)

Step 2 The Style have chosen to work on an Afliative(11) clock position.

My score afliativestyle means I tend to behave that I usually accept others and others views. My score is close to the high range.

I am basically a friendly person who enjoys other people's feelings.

Step 3 Significant person or situation Ideals/Behaviors I Might Have Learnt

To develop professional skills.

To build up my confidence.

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My family

Step 4 Personally

Positive Consequences Self- Defeating Consequences

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Seldom to say how I really think. Very often I feel lonely. Sometimes I feel that it is difficult to to others. I seldom achieve admiration from others

Professionally I increase the productivity of my work to get admiration for my professional goals and for the well-being of the society.

Have a good relationship to others

Step 5

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Some positive differences: If I changed my behaviour in this area I would be able to be more confident about my professional career

Understand the meaningful persons surrounding

Some negative differences: I would feel frustration and lack of confidence.

Step 7

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How I would like things to be different: If I would change my behaviour, I would be able to enjoy interesting social happenings around me

Step 8:(a) I need to build relationship with other persons in the society.

(b) I need to avoid the groups of people in the society.

Step 9 (a) Taking the professional goals as a challenge.

(b) To make friendship with other people jin the society.

(c) Try ton earn more admiration of other people.

Step 10

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By making this change I will gain more self- confidence and trust of the people.

To bring this change I like to do the following things:-

1. I will have a positive attitude towards the people who are reliable.

2. I will respect other people's feelings.

3. I will try to be friendly with others.

4. I will make good relationship with the people in the society.

5. I will be more responsible in my professional works.

I will share my intentions and plans with my colleagues and other respectable persons of the society.

I intend to take action from tomorrow.

Portfolio Strategy Sheet # 1

Choose a method or strategy that you have learned about or observed during field experience.

1. Name of method or strategy:

Ans. -Picture Discussion.

2. When is this method or strategy useful?

Ans. -It is useful when there is a lesson including picture/ pictures

3. Why or how is this method or strategy useful?

Ans. – This method is useful to make the students practice Speaking and Listening skills in groups in a

large classroom.

4. What are the steps involved in using this strategy or method?

Ans. The steps are- a) Making groups, b) Setting pictures for discussion, c) Monitoring the class to see

all the students are working in groups.

5. When would this method or strategy be useful in your setting?

Ans . When there is a necessity of picture- discussion in a lesson and to control a large class, my setting

of discussion about the pictures in groups is useful.

6. What would you like other teachers in your school to know about this method or strategy?

Ans. I like other teachers in my school to know about this strategy to control a large class to make the

students practice Listening and Speaking skills.




Debates.


At the time of panel discussion. And make the students make comparison between two things or

events.


This method is useful for co-curricular activities to remove the monotony of the students.


T will make groups or team from the students after setting a specific subject.

Then will help the students if necessary. All other students of the class will enjoy the debates.


It is useful in a communicative English Language class.


As it is important for the students, I would like other English teachers to do this kinds of activities.

Portfolio Strategy Sheet #3



Pair Work


This method or strategy is useful when there is a lesson including a picture

Or dialogue or any description which requires two characters.


This method or strategy is useful to make the class more interesting and to

Remove the shyness of the students to talk in the class.


After selecting a specific lesson, the teacher will ask the students to make pairs. Then the teacher will

ask the students to talk about the picture or about the event chosen for the ss to discuss about.


The method or strategy is useful to teach English in the Communicative Approach in a large or small

class.


I would like other teachers in our school to take this kinds of strategy for the

Betterment of the students.

Portfolio Strategy Sheet #4



The name of my Strategy is “Group Work”.


This method or strategy is useful to teach the students in a large classroom as well as in a small

classroom to teach them English as a foreign language in the communicative way. It is useable to teach

the students Grammar or literature.


This method or strategy is useful basically to make the classroom student-centered one. It is very

necessary to teach the students English Language in the communicative way to make the students

confident about their use of language, to remove the shyness of the students by making groups taking

the weaker students with the advanced students.


The steps are : 1) Teacher will make groups taking the advanced students

With the weaker students.

2) Teacher will set a work for the students, such as the teacher may set a picture

discussion or jotting their ideas to write down a

Paragraph or composition or making a dialogue.


This method or strategy would be useful in my setting when I will be

Back to my own school to teach the students English in the communicative

Way.


I would like other teachers in my school to follow this method or strategy

For the implementation in the class of English language for the betterment of the students.




The name of the Strategy is Task- Based Strategy.


This method or strategy is useful in a large English Language class to

Teach the students the communicative way.


This method or strategy is useful to keep the students busy with their

Lessons in the large classroom making small groups so that the students

Can share their ideas or understanding with one another to make a good

Relationship among them.


- Teacher will make small groups from the students

- Teacher will set a specific activity for the students to work with.

- Teacher will monitor the class to make sure that everyone is doing the


This method or strategy would be useful in my school when I will be

Back to my home country.


I would like other teachers to choose this method to apply it in their classes

To teach Communicative English Language for the maximum benefit of the Students.

Lesson Plan # 1

Grades: 6, 7 Total students- 40

Source: A Book on Grammar Class Duration-40 mins

Lesson Title: Sentence.

A. Identifying sentences.

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Teacher will give the students a sheet of paper of sentences or parts of sentences. If the word- groups are sentences, they will add cap letters at the beginning and punctuate the sentences with an appropriate end mark. If a word group

is not a sentence, they will write sentence fragment. For example,

1) read the postcards from our Asian pen pals

2) Our school has a home work hot line.

3) followed the trail on the map

4) the lopez twins comes from Nuevo Laredo

5) Will you practice guitar before dinner

B. Identifying simple Sunjects and simple Predicate.

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T will the students a sheet of some sentences from which the students will find

out the subjects and predicates of those sentences. The sentences may be like these:-

6) My grandfather plays mah-jongg with my friends and me everyday.

7) The farmers will plowed the fields and will plant potatoes.

8) On the sand lay a beautiful seashell.

9) At night you can rent roller skates for half price at the rink near the house.

10) Washington DC is the capital city of the U.S.A.

C. Punctuating and classifying the sentences by purposes:

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T will delever the students some sentences on a sheet of paper or on the boad. For

each of the sentences students will add appropriate end marks and then classify each

sentence as declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory. The sentences are

may be as followed:

16) Please answer the phone

17) What a good time we had

18) Hang the jacket in the hall closet.

19) How we laughed

20) Water is composed by hydrogen and oxygen

21) Did you say to turn left there

22) Call this number in case of an emergency.

By the end of the presentation of the lesson, I will gige them a home work if there

is time in hand giving them more other sentences like the aboves. Then I will draw

an end of the class giving the students thanks for their hard work.

Lesson Plan # 2Name of the teacher: Md. Mosharraf Hossain Total students- 45

Grades: 6,7 Class Duration-40mins

Book- Story (The Fear Place) Date: 10/21/2007

Lesson title: Reading and Criticism of Story

Context Objectives:-

** Oral language objectives:

Students will analyze oral participation in small group activities.

** Reading objectives:

- Students will read a variety of Fiction.

- Students will explain how character and plot development are used in a selection

to support a central conflict.

- Students will be able to draw conclusion and or make confirm or revise prediction.

Lesson Objectives:-

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1. Student will discuss rules of Socratic Seminar.

2. Student will use symbols to make up text chapter of The Fear Place.

3. Students will participate in Socratic Seminar discussion.

4. Student will evaluate their participation and goals.

5. Students will fill out key words chart and write in journals to respond to chapter in the novel, The Fear Place.

Procedures:-

Teacher will precede his lesson according to the requirement of the lesson.

Assessment:

Teacher will assess the students’ working one after another.

LESSON PLAN # 3Lesson Information: Grade-8 EfT, Unit-1, Lesson-9

Topic: The Village Blacksmith Duration: 40 mins

Objectives: - To make ss familiar with a blacksmith.

- To enable the students recite a poem.

T-aids: Text book, a picture of a blacksmith.

Grammar – Structure: When+ Subordinate Clause+ Principal Clause.

Warm up - Questions: a) Have you ever visited a blacksmith? If yes, where is it?

b) What kinds of tools do the blacksmiths make?

c) Describe a smithy.

d) Draw a picture of a spade.

e) How many persons are there in the picture?

Sections Notes for the teacher Techniques TimeA T will ask the students to talk about the picture

T will present some vocabularies on the boardSs will write them down in their note books.Smithy- a blacksmith’s workshop.Mighty- powerful/strong.Crisp- brittle

T will ask the students to read the passage.Ss will read it accordingly.

T will recite the poem.Ss will listen to the teacher.

Pair work

Individual work

Individual work

Whole class

15 mins

B Ss will complete the dialogue.T will check the answersSuggested answers:Blacksmith, many, arms, work, they.

Ss will act out the dialogue.T will listen to them.

Individual work

Pair work

15 mins

C T will ask the ss to join the sentences in list A and Bto make correct sentences.Example: When Anwar arrived home late, his father asked him a question.Ss will join the sentences.

Individual work 10 mins

Suggested answers: ---When Henry Longfellow lived in America, there were smithies there.

- When the blacksmith worked very hard, he sweated and felt very hot.

T will check and elicit from ss.

T will set the homework.--

Chain drill

LESSON PLAN # 4 Grade - 9 Title: First Impression

U- 4 , L - 8 Time: 40 mins

Date : 10/8/07

Teaching- aids: EFT- 9 & 10

Aims: - To practice Listening Skill.

- Expressing Likings or Dislikings.

- Grammar: Use Nationality word as Noun/Adjectives.

- New words: banker, journalist.

- Possible problem: Ss might fail to express their likings and dislikings of somehow.

Sections Teacher's activities Techniques Time

A

1. T asks the students to make groups at first.

- Ss do it accordingly.

2. T tells the students to talk about the pictures.

- Ss talk about the pictures

3. T asks the students to answer the questions after the pictures.

- Ss talk about the pictures.

Group work 5 mins.

B

4. T asks the ss to read the chart before listening to the conversation

- Ss do as their teacher says.

5. T reads aloud and asks the students to listen to him

- Ss do this.

6. T asks the students to circle required information in the text.

- Ss circle it.

Individual work 7 mins.

C

7. T tells students they are joining to do word game.

8. T shows the students the chart of letters in C.

9. T tells the students that they can form words vertically as well

as horizontally.

10. T explains the chart to the students.

11. T announces that the pair that will come up with most words,

will get a prize.

12. T will do one for the ss.

- Ss follows it carefully.

Pair work 13 mins.

D 13. T asks the ss to work in pairs and arrange the words according

to the positive and negative feelings. Ss do ti.

14. T tells the ss to compare it to their partners. Ss do it.

15. T elicits responses from the students and write them on the board.

16. T tells the students that the statement could be used for both

positive and negative feelings.

Pair work and Individual work.

15 mins.

Lesson Plan # 5------------- Grade: 9-10 Number of students-80EfT- 9,10 Class Duration-45 minsU-1 L-4 Lesson Title: Pahela Baishakh -----------------------------Objectives:-----------1) To make the students able to read a newspaper report about Pahela Baishakh.2) Students will be able to describe pictures of preparation for a mela.3) Ss will be able to talk about how to organize a mela.4) Ss will have planned about how to organize a mela at their school.5) Ss will have made a poster asking for volunteers for the mela.

Focus:------* Skills- Reading, Speaking and Writing.* Function- Expressing Requests and Offers.* Grammar/Structures- Simple Present, Would like to.* Vocabulary- celebrate, festivities, festoons, banners, placards.

A. 10 mins Individual Work- Ask students to read the questions given in speech bubles. Ask them to answer the questions to their partners. The answers will be:a) Masum is talking about the Bangla New Year.b) This is 1409. -----give Bangla year. This will change every year. Answer to the question No. 3 will vary from person to person. Then ask the students to read the newspaper article on Pahela Baishakh.

B. 15 mins Pair Work Ask students to look at the pictures. Tell them that the pictures are of preparation for a mela. Tell them to describe the pictures. Tell them that the technique of describing a picture is to make a list of the items seen in the picturesand then make a list of the activities also seen in the pictures. Then ask them to write about the activities and the items in detail.

C. 8 mins Group Work Ask ss to discuss in groups about how to arrange a mela. Ask them to make a list of the activities they might have to undertake as a preparation for the mela. The ans-wers might be: arranging a venue, collecting funds, arranging stalls etc. Ask them to write down who will do what. For example, Harun will collect funds, Rakib will arrange the stalls etc.

D. 7 mins Group Work Ask students to make a poster asking for volunteers who would help in preparation.

The poster might have the following in it: Volunteers Wanted: The mela committee is looking for voluntees who will be able to help collecting funds and organizing stalls.

Vocabs:-------Celebrate- observe (V),Festoons- lights, colour-paper, flowers etc. used to decorate sth.(N)Banners- a display of some messages written on a piece of fabric.(N)Placards- a large printed or written notice put in a public place or carried on a stickin a march.Festivities- activities showing happiness and enjoyment in celebrating sth.

Template for Action Research Proposal ------------------------------------- Introduction

I teach in a high school in Bangladesh. The name of my school is Barmi Bazar High School. Ours is a big school of about 1000 students. So it has some very large classrooms and some large classes has more than 100 students. So there are some problems sometimes in my school and classes for classroom management and make the classes student-centered by creating a real classroom situstion. There are 6 to 10 grades students in my school. All students are not equal according to their merit, that is, the students are of different level in the same class.

Our school is situated in a rural area. It is about 15 kilometers from our upazila ( Police Station ) and about 45 kilometers from the city, Gazipur. So about all of the students of our school come from villages. Most of the students fathers are the only earning members of their families. Most of them are farmers. There are also some shopkeepers, fishermen, boatmen and also some day laborers. Many parents are poor and they can not provide their children with the necessary things likes books, clothes etc. and even they can not bear their educational expenses. But now-a-days, the Government has launched a program to help the poor students with financial facilities to save them from dropping out.

On the other hand, the parents of the village-students are not well- educated. Very few of them are educated, some of them are a little educated and some of them are not educated at all or they are illiterate. People of various community live in the villages. So the students of different community come to school. Most of the studentsare Muslims. About 15 to 20 percent of them are Hindus.

As most of the students' guardians are not educated, they are not aware of their children's education and they are not able to take care of their education and health.This is why the rate of education of the village is not good and it has an influenceon our school. If we compare the quality or the standard of education of our school with some other schools in the towns, our position will be very low. Besides, our school has not got modern facilities of technology and other useful teaching-aids. For that very reason, I have started the activities of some action research on "How Can The Quality of Education of My School Be Increased". My Action Research Questions are as follows:-

Action Research Questions -------------------------

1. How can I motivate the Headmaster and the Chairman of the School Managing Committeeto hold several meetings in a year on Development of Education.

2. What steps can I take to make all the teachers and the members of the SMC think about the Progress of the education of the school.

3. How can I help the Headmaster to organize the parents and the guardians of the students in a meeting to discuss about their children's progress of studies.

4. How can I help the school authority to arrange several conferences or seminars on educatin of the school including the local elites.

5 What necessary and effective steps can be taken to prevent the dropping out of the students due to poverty and some other issues.

6. What can be done to grow the students interest and the attention to their lessons in their classrooms.

7. How can I grow the awareness of people about education in my locality.

8. How can I help my colleagues and the students to be more communicative in the classes especially in the EFL or ESL classes.

9. How can I create my students' feelings of loving the school, classes and books.

Reflection on Fieldwork (Visiting Williamsburg Middle School)

Classroom is a part and parcel of an educational institution. It is the place where students learn many things. So a classroom should be well decorated in order that students can feel comfortable and pleasure

to receive lessons from their teachers. It is also important for the teachers to feel ease in the classroom to teach the students properly for the maximum benefit of their student. This is why, as a teacher of English language of a secondary school, I want to improve my classroom more beautifully than before when I will be back to my school after the completion of my training course arranged by IREX- TEA Program under the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States.

Under this program, I visited a school here called Williamsburg Middle School and observed their classroom situations and activities. There are so many differences between their classrooms and ours in my country, Bangladesh. Their classrooms are decorated with all modern facilities including computers, projectors and all kinds of electronic equipments, text-books, reference books of all subjects including science and technology. It is say that every classroom has a mini library which has a collection of many important and interesting books.

Another thing is that their classes are smaller than those of ours. In my country, our classroom has 70 to 80 students even more than one hundred students, but they have very few students in their classes. Their classroom is 100% student-centered classroom but my classrooms are not enriched with those kinds of modern materials as they got here and they are partly student-centered. In their schools in America, the teachers and the students are very communicative. The teachers are not administrative and hard persons, instead they are very friendly and helpful towards the students. The students have freedom to express their opinions and to share their views and informations with their teachers. Teachers assess their values with importance and give their feedback with gentle corrections if necessary. So both the teachers and the students here have positive attitude for teaching-learning activities. Inside and outside the classrooms they maintain discipline very strongly. But though I try to do it in my school, I can't be successful for some reasons.

In America, the teachers try to practice all the methods of teaching very carefully. They maintain the teaching techniques seriously. They make their students do group-work, pair-work, individual-work, silent and personal reading very nicely. Their vocabulary presentation is also attractive. Their test-system is fine. I also do these but I can not implement all these methods and techniques in my work-area for environmental problems and for the lack of teaching-equipments and classroom-materials.

The teachers here in America have some specific goals for their classroom activities. They take the responsibilities of the students education honestly. They set the students to do moral and social activities. They are also aware of their students physical and mental health. In their well-furnished schools they have all arrangements of sports and taking physical exercise in the well-decorated playground and gymnasiam. In my school, I will try to follow all these practices.

Conclusion: By the help of my trainer-teachers here I have written my portfolio according to their suggestion. I will keep it for my future development. I will try to apply the messages of this portfolio in my own school in my country.

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